PhD A informed the team that the team was looking at the difference between the mel filter and FFT spectrum, which he called the variance. The variance for voice-unvoice was high. PhD C thought that the variance was kind of artificial because it was being done using canonical mappings from TIMIT labelings.


Battery would be the energy source and the electronics would be regular chips on print. For the case, it would be double-curved and made from plastic in special colours, whereas buttons would come in different forms and colour and would be made in rubber or wood. In addition, there would be no clock. With the cost of eight twenty, the remote was within budget with the cost of voice recognizer excluded. Only four thirty euros was left to cover it so they would have to settle with what they get within the budget with no money for other special features.


Since this product didn't have much complex design, it was designed to be easy to use with a very simple structure. Hence, they all agreed that it was easy to use. As for the fancy part, the product was a banana shape, the fruit design was very up to date and fashionable. For the same reason that it resembled a banana, users would find it easily when they needed to use the remote control. What's more, it had lightning, making it more visible in daily life. The product was surrounded by rubber, enabling it under protection, so the robust feature can be ensured.


In the second half of the meeting, the team discussed the details of the features and appearances of the new remotes. Lots of ideas and proposals were raised, but many of them were denied or modified later. In the end, the team reached a consensus that their new remotes would have batteries that could be recharged, pale yellow slogans, fruits-based shapes and sponge rubber material.


Sian Gwenllian pointed out that the issues with HMRC had come to light that had made the team suspended the programme for the HMRC would have put limits on that. Julie Morgan answered that in terms of the Welsh language standards that the Minister had to use, there would be some difficulties in them doing it. For instance this would be delivered via HMRC with the English offer, which would cause difficulties for the Welsh offer. So, they wanted something more flexible. Nicola Edwards also agreed that the technical issues with HMRC for HMRC did provide a bilingual service at the moment for their customers in line with their Welsh language scheme. Jo-Anne Daniels finally came to the conclusion that they could deliver a cheaper system with flexibility that the Deputy Minister had referred to by working with local authorities rather than HMRC.


The conference is about an inquiry into targeted funding to improve educational outcomes in the Wales education system. First, they primarily discussed the Pupil Development Grant, its targeting, eligibility, use and impact. Then, the group discussed care of looked-after children and adopted children. They discussed the condition and impact of another student support program the Schools Challenge Cymru program and the advisory role of regional consortia, Cabinet Secretary.


Marketing found that seventy five percent of the users thought most remote controls ugly, and most people found it irritating when they couldn't find their remote control. And another thing Marketing found important was that users had a feeling for speech recognition so that they could choose channels by voice. And they wanted maybe an LCD screen to search what's on every channel.


In terms of an increase in neurodevelopmental referrals, Hefin David wanted to know its reasons and measures. Carol Shillabeer responded with no specific idea for the reasons and an introduction of delivery progression for the measures. Being asked, Carol then talked about a broader view of group work, mentioning the limitation of threshold and focused conditions.


The revised semantic specification and construction formalism are more stable than the previous versions. Semantic constraints also come into play. The semantic specification, on the other hand, is split into three levels: "scenario" is a list of schemas and bindings between them, which describes the current event in terms of Source-Path-Goal, Container, etc.; "referent" is about the entities in the discourse and includes grammatical information and pointers to the ontology; "discourse segment" comprises utterance-specific things. Apart from the presentation, JavaBayes can now run through the modified web page of the project.


In terms of the great idea of making a multifunctional remote control, a new problem occurred that no one would be in favour of the product if it is too large or it is too complex to remember which button is for a certain function. One possibly feasible solution was to make it a remote control with a touch screen.


While it was imperative that the public were made aware of this controversial change in the law, she thought the Deputy Minister's amendment lacked a number of key points that the committee were actually keen to address at stage 1. For example, Amendment 1A changed amendment 1 to include the promotion of understanding changes to the law. Amendment 1B stated that there should be details about the support available to parents to use alternatives to physical punishment when discipline their children, which she thought was very important to parents. Amendment 1C explained that the Welsh Government should ensure clear advice was provided on what people could do if they had seen a child being physically assaulted, and this could help raise public awareness of how they could report and in what situations they could report.


The first design obviously met the requirements of the budget so the team focused on the second one to see whether the combination of the two designs could together form an innovative design but was under the budget at the same time. To cut costs, the Project Manager first suggested using normal chips only in exchange for the speech recognition function. The special color was left to the case and it was designed as curved on the sides and curved on the top and bottom as well. Later, the team had argued a lot whether to eliminate the number of buttons or to discard LCD displays. However, if the number of buttons were to be eliminated, it would be far more complicated to use the device, since users must press one button several times to get to the channel. After a vote and discussion about the cost, the team decided to discard both the LCD display and the speech recognition functions since they were really expensive and the later one could not work without the existence of the former one.


According to Dr Frank Atherton's answer to legislations' timing, it was very clear that the implementation of legislation to build a healthy environment was very approved by Dr Frank Atherton and even by a large group in the consultation. Dr Frank Atherton reviewed that they needed a mirror to see what had been happening in this country and legislation was a good way and took some examples of food takeaways which showed that they needed to consider effectiveness things.


Industrial Designer designed remote control with handy size and made a connection with chips under the plastic of rubber button.  Chip transmitted signal by Morse code which made infra-red lights signal could be sent to the TV. Industrial Designer prefered remote control with various colours so that it would be easy to use. On the other hand, Industrial Designer thought rubber buttons were easy to damage so they could make several designs.


Morneau explained that the government was committed to supporting Canadians. It came into the pandemic with a strong fiscal position, and while the pandemic will bring challenges, it will face those challenges while supporting small businesses and Canadians.


Marketing first presented the evaluation criteria, including whether the remote was easy to use, whether it was fashionable, whether it feels good physically, and some other aspects. Using a seven-point scale from true to false, the team rated the remote on these aspects. All agreed to give 2 points for the remote being easy to use. With slight variations, the average point for it being fashionable is 2.5. The average is 2 for it feeling good physically, and 3.5 for it being technologically innovative. Finally, the team also agreed on it being trendy and capable with a score around 2.


Both the devices had the special shape, like the surf-board. The first prototype was a pretty simple design with LCD display and an on-off button in red. It was easy to use and could only be used for the TV mode. After all, the team concluded that it was a standard design except for its special shape that made it look adorable. On the contrary, the second prototype was advanced in its speech recognition function and looked like a fashion mobile phone. It came with six key buttons and one orange one for the microphone. If the user would like a speech recognition and a lot of information on the channel could be displayed directly on LCD display. Also, the components for the two designs were low in weight and there was LED to indicate the battery usage, making it convenient to use. To conclude, Marketing fancied the second one's size and shape.


Project Manager started introducing meeting purposes on the functional design of the remote control. Group mates have agreed to name the project as 'Mando'. Next, Marketing presented user requirements and market reports on current remote improvements. User Interface presented the current trend on remote controls. User Interface compared scroll wheel and LCD screen. Industrial Interface gave a presentation on the working design of different interfaces. Lastly, Project Manager summarized the whole project meeting discussion.


Industrial Designer and Project Manager proposed the two-sided remote control, whose one side could be designed for kids and the other for adults. However, in this way, User Interface prospected a potential hard manipulation.


Project Manage thought they should reach a market with customers that were younger than forty as they already had forty plus customers. Marketing suggested it should be sixteen to forty-five as they like the LCD screen most.


This part talked about the impact on children and the school readiness issue. To be precise, the group had discussed disadvantaged families' problems, free education, the potential numbers and cost, and eventually the feasibility of the general rate.


A test set of digits data totalling two hours is nearly complete. Digit extraction has been performed on roughly half of this data


The professor was happy to hear that the team had already started putting together a final software. The professor also noted that Finnish and Spanish had the smallest overall number compared to Aurora.


The meeting was about the potential consequences of the COVID-19 in Canada. The members put forward several petitions to ask for further attention for the people in need, say, the children, the workers who would suffer unemployment, and the creators who made a living on artworks, and also many other stakeholders from all walks of life, trying to ensure the life quality of their people during such a harsh time. Some of the group members mentioned some social problems, including the economic depression, racial discrimination, social security, and the environmental pollution,to call for a maintenance of the wealthy and healthy community in Canada. Through the discussion, it could be found that fortunately, some of the problems had been dealt with extra funds and cooperation with other related organizations.


User Interface gained the inspiration of big thick keys for remote control from mobile phones, which were already skillfully used by the younger generation and thus made thick keys familiar to youngsters. Also, according to Marketing, compared with ordinary keys for RC, thick keys fitted in with the trend, especially among youngsters. Moreover, every team member agreed that with thick design, keys would look less cluttered and more spacious.


Marketing was tired of too many buttons with different functions separately, but yet he doubted whether combining all different remotes together was necessary because he felt it ended up with multimedia overload. User Interface thought remote controls were pretty nice but could be a bit annoying because users didn't have to get up and walk across the room to change a channel. However, three separate remote controls with too many buttons for TV could be confusing and complicated. Industrial Designer agreed with having too many remotes around.


Marketing mentioned three main inspirations. The first one was the customer’s need for the trend of fashion in electronics. The second one was the simplicity of technology and Marketing mentioned that existing customers would be willing to pay more for voice recognition. The third one was about the aesthetics, the look of the remote including its shape and colour.


The group discussed digits data, recent ASR results, the status of transcriptions, and disk space and storage format issues. Approximately two hours of digits have been recorded, half of which have been extracted. Researchers doing ASR are looking into methods for generating a better channel-based segmentation to improve recognition results for close-talking microphone data. Transcription checking procedures were reviewed, and efforts to coordinate the channelization and presegmention of data with the tightening of time bins were discussed. The group also talked about downsampling and strategies for coping with low disk space.


PhD B focused on Italian and experimented with the number of states for different words. PhD B thought training for each case may improve performance by accounting for the difference in variance.


Except for the Project Manager, the other three members of the group all did a presentation to show their research findings on the television remote. The Industrial Designer suggested not to use too much metal in case they would disturb the signals. After him, the User Interface focused on the functions that he proposed neither to make the remote too confusing nor cheap-looking. The last one is the Marketing and she introduced the consumer preference as well as the existing problem of easily losing the remote.


PhD B thought generating queries went beyond the score of the project and that Landay was more equipped to handle a project like that. Though, PhD B recognized the flaw with people generating queries from the summaries


PhD C and the professor expressed a desire to learn more about nets that incorporated multiple languages. They thought they could explore whether it was better to have one net for many languages or different nets for each language.


Marketing suggested the group to focus on a fancy look and feel more than the functionality of the remote design. Group mates asked if they would have a remote control in the shape of a banana. Marketing said they should not be attached to the trend because the trend next year would be different. So, Marketing suggested focusing on a young user group and designing a handy and cool remote.


Meilyr Rowlands thought it was a challenge to recruit new teachers and improve the initial training.In the long term, he believed that education should become more attractive for young people and more mature people to go into, while in the short term, looking at initial teacher training would be the top priority.


For comparing Meeting Recorder digits results, it was decided that the Aurora HTK-based system should be tested on data from the TI digits corpus


It was true that the change did make it more challenging. But the changes were made for the right reasons. By taking the example of learning English literature, they had come to a conclusion that they were making those changes because they believed that they were in the best interest of children, and that had to trump ease of comparison.


Kirsty Williams assured the committee members that the grading system was rigorous and it focused on the students' ability to think independently. When Dawn Bowden challenged the value of the Welsh baccalaureate, Kirsty Williams defended its qualification by demonstrating its tariff for UCAS. He reiterated that the evaluation engaged and expanded the acquisition of knowledge and skills.


According to Kirsty, it was the current model. Although they failed to persuade the local government to adopt a new national model, the local authorities had already seen the value in it. However, they were at the stage looking to a wholesale review of the national model. Now they were all focusing on the work of implementation. At the same time, they had the risk of losing focus because of the emphasis on the curriculum and other aspects of the educational system.


The opposition party claimed that the supply chain in Canada amidst the pandemic was not stable enough and the government was not doing anything. The minister explained that they would continue to work with countries around the globe to ensure that Canada's supply chains and those global supply chains, particularly for essential goods, for agricultural products, for medical supplies, would continue to remain open.


There were two groups, the young and trendy, and the old and rich. For the first group, they would like fruit and vegetables as a theme for clothes, shoes, and also products. And for the material, a spongy feeling one would be better. But the old and rich would like dark colors, simple, and recognizable shapes as well as familiar material, wood especially.


Guenter from Germany expressed that CVS would not work for him. He was going to work on histogram equalization. Histogram equalization was mentioned in a recent paper published by Ney. The team discussed the paper and its implications.


To cater to the potential consumers aged under 35, the group decided to use voice control to locate the remote. During their discussion of the voice control technique on the remote control, they also took into consideration several detailed problems. They planned to set the control range within 200 feet and arrange a voice-controlled sticky pad on top of the television on which there would also be a page button.


The professor expressed that copying the information between drives clogged the network and slowed down their task. Though, the team was getting four more 36 GB drives. The professor also wanted to get more information on space available on computational servers.


Industrial Designer and User Interface presented a prototype of the new remote control according to the team's previous meetings. However, due to the budget limit, the team had to give up the spongy rubber material and the double-curved design. Instead, the remote control would be made of plastic and have only one curve. There would not be any location function, either. The team decided to make the remote control conspicuous by designing a bright yellow banana shape in case it got lost easily in a room. In the product evaluation, the team was satisfied with its success in reducing the number of unused buttons. The user interface was considered to be user-friendly enough. However, the team also admitted that there was still room for improvement on the location function, technological innovation, the material, as well as the fashion style of the remote control. At the end of the meeting, all team members expressed themselves about the teamwork sincerely.


Marketing suggested that they could develop the remote control into a hand held mini laptop, so that it could control all sorts of appliances. But at the end of the meeting, they made the decision that the new remote control would not be a multi-functional one, and it would only be designed for television.


The marketing thought they needed to evaluate whether it made sense to do the project and whether the product could fulfil their requirement. So the group started to judge the design on a scale of one to seven, one being true and seven being false. The criteria were fanciness, technology, robustness, usefulness, size and weight, colour and shape, and adaptiveness. The product got an average score of two point one seven, which implied it was good.


According to Kirsty Williams, he was not quite in favor of a new immigration policy at first, for when post-study work visas were first issued in the south-east of England, the outcome was not so satisfying. However, his attitude had changed. As the locals usually did not take foreign students as immigrants, the government should treat the foreign students and those who came from EU as the same, which is to say, a new immigration system should be set to ensure that EU students and all the other foreign ones would receive the same treatment when seeking a job in Wales.


The opposition party claimed that the seniors care crisis was a national problem, and the federal government was not taking immediate response. The opposition party pointed out that these failures were the product of systemic neglect.The minister replied that they were fully aware that in long-term care facilities both seniors and persons living with a disability face unique challenges. And considering the severity of this report, the federal government promptly shared it with the Province of Ontario, and the Province of Ontario has initiated an investigation based on the report's findings.


Industrial Designer expressed a desire to make remote control from rubber and LCD touch screen. Industrial Designer designed a remote control chargeable with a mount station instead of plugging it. In addition, User Interface emphasized that the remote control should not only have an LCD screen, but also some necessary buttons. Marketing introduced watch trends about colours, shapes and material of remote control from the past years. Based on the analysis of marketing, the group did a discussion about target people and made initial design decisions.


The first test set of digits is complete and includes 4,000 lines, each comprising between 1-10 digits. New digits forms were distributed for eliciting different prosodic groupings of numbers. New naming conventions were discussed as means for facilitating the sorting process. Existing files will be changed so that all filenames are of equal length. Similar changes will be made to speaker identification tags. Files will also contain information specifying channel, microphone, and broadcaster information.


Project Manager suggested that the remote could have removable plastic cases like phones so users can change to the colour they like, for example, striped or fluorescent blue. Two cases can be provided in the package and users can buy new cases in stores for a few Francs or Euros. The team immediately jumped on board with the idea.


The opposition party questioned about sending military groups to provinces in order to fix long-term care. The Prime Minister answered that the government needed to make sure seniors across the country were properly cared for, and they sent in the military to help the provinces. The opposition party also questioned about applying the national standards so that long-term care was governed by the same principles as the Canada Health Act. The Prime Minister elaborated that due the Covid-19, pushing the project had become extremely difficult.


Project Manager thought it would attract older people who couldn't manage the buttons as they would probably prefer speech recognition. However, Industrial Designer believed it tended to appeal more to younger aged groups as the team had gone with the fashion focus but then proposed that it should still appeal on a certain level to everybody.


User Interface believed the most important function is to switch channels, and so it would be better to keep the remote control as basic as possible. Marketing proposed that the remote control had to be multi-purpose to be competitive among current products. Project Manager agreed to do something special on the product, but PM also pointed out being user-friendly was also of importance.


The new system for collecting subject intention focused on allowing subjects to come up with the intent themselves. Instead of giving them a list of goals, the subjects would, with the help of an instructor, figure out what they want to do in the environment. The earlier interaction with the instructor would give them a sense of how specific their goals in the environment could be. Another idea was to use pictures for people to help determine their intention, but the manufacturing of pictures seemed to be a very intensive project.


The team came up with three general desired features about their new TV remote controls. First, it should be universal (which was the one for all type things). Second, the remote controls were required to be slim. Most importantly, it should be different from the rest in the market, suggesting that the new remote controls would be with some kinds of a gimmick, such as whistling for retrieval.


The meeting was with the Special Committee on the COVID-19 Pandemic. First of all, petitioners presented several petitions including to call the government to implement a wage supplement. Later the committee expressed the thanks to different departments and people for the contribution to the society under the Covid-19 situation. When it came to questions, the committee discussed the financial support from the government to various industries as well as groups to ensure equal rights of different groups of people, especially the most vulnerable ones. Moreover, the meeting discussed the new law in Hong Kong and issues related to community services in Canada. In the end, the committee discussed the recent and upcoming solutions to battle the Covid-19 concerning various aspects.


All forms of physical punishment including smacks from a loving parent should be prohibited by legislation to protect children's rights. There were multiple other ways to help parents bring up children rather than the physical punishment.


Gareth Pierce believed that the subsidy would be necessary, and thought of the subsidy for producing resources in two languages for the curriculum.


The industrial designer described the product as a portable device with some energy source, an interface which included some pressing buttons and keys, a processor, some infrared source which could send the information to the main device, and different encryption codes for different TVs. Since the Marketing and the user interface designer mentioned speech recognition, the industrial designer also took that into account. All these components would cost 5 Euros or even less than that. As for gesture recognition and automatic power control, the group gave them up due to price issues. At the end of the meeting, the group also talked about how to enable the users to find the controller.


The opposition party questioned that the report was delayed in issuing by the government and was not acted upon. The minister answered that the report was done and given up through the chain of command, and once the government received this report, it was forwarded to the appropriate authorities. The minister denied the fact that the report was released and acted upon late.


The group members firstly made sure how big the seven-inch TFT screen was in reality. And they thought that the remote control should not be too big or too small, it should be fit in hands. Then they discussed how the screen and buttons could be reasonably put on the remote control.


User Interface suggested that the remote should be compact and able to be used for other purposes such as controlling air-conditioners or heating systems. Industrial Designer agreed and added audio players should also be controlled as well.


The User Interface proposed to add a logo on the remote control, but the problem came that it did matter much how to locate the screen and the logo. At first the Marketing planned to put the logo on the left top but then he elaborated himself that the logo should be the last one to be considered that it would be put wherever space was left, instead of letting the logo decide where the screen would be put.


In this meeting, the team brainstormed about the look, functions and gadgets to adopt in the remote control and finally reached a decision on the overall design. The meeting started with discussion on the technical functions based on some new requirements delivered by Project Manager and on market research results presented by Marketing. In the end, the team agreed on including mainly basic functions on the remote control, adding a joystick-like gadget that was able to charge and track the device, enlarging certain buttons and making it flashy.


Actually, they did not anticipate any change in the approach to students. Individual student circumstances could well change and their expectation would be that the Student Loans Company would respond to that. There would undoubtedly in some cases be really typical challenges to service delivery, simply because organizations could be losing staff because of illness or the need to self-isolate or because they were reacting to social-distancing messages from the Government. They instituted a monitoring process very early on in the onset of the disease, not least because a number of institutions had campuses and activities in China and other parts of south-east Asia. And so, as the disease had progressed, they had seen lessons being learned from the support for students who were in isolation coming from there to the UK.


Grad G thought that the multi-lingual aspect of the model was not very important. The professor disagreed. He explained that the point of the project was to have something robust that could apply to many languages.


The group showed approval regarding the concept of a wooden case, because Industrial Designer, during his presentation, evaluated different materials on the basis of manufacturing input as well as the conceptual features of the product. After eliminating rubber, plastic and titanium, the only option left was wood. Not only is it environmental-friendly, but the users could also have their customized curving on the case. But Industrial Designer suggested that the buttons should be made out of rubber.


Janet Finch-Saunders said that there were ongoing concerns about the potential costs for Welsh devolved authorities and the lack of quantifiable costs within the regulatory impact assessment. While amendment 11 referred to costs borne by local authorities and health boards, Janet Finch-Saunders had noted that amendment 12 took this further by including other devolved authorities that were not funded by Welsh Government. Janet Finch-Saunders wanted these amendments because she genuinely did not believe that they had even envisioned what or even estimated the likely cost to be borne by the organizations, and certainly their local authorities and health boards, and the impact the Bill was going to have.


Compared with the current manufacturer design, User Interface mentioned that they should reduce the option to control the DVD. And according to the new requirements, they need to control the maximum number of buttons within ten.


PhD D expressed that the resynthesized version of the speech that LPC gave was not the same as speech. Though, the excitations were more clear in the resynthesized version.


The professor wanted to make sure that the team does not end up in a bind. If they later had to cut latency, it would create a problem. This was his preferred conservative approach.


User Interface also suggested to keep the remote control simple and ease down on the functionality. Keeping the remote control simple meant that fewer functions were involved, or at least less buttons were made, which could be solved by a hierarchy structure supported by a touch screen. Besides, User Interface mentioned the importance of being user friendly. According to User Interface, the remote control should be only used for TV.


According to a market survey, there were several things that users didn't like in current remote controls. First of all, users find them very ugly. Second, the current remote controls were not so easy to use and the facilities that they offered did not match what people really wanted. Third, people were very frustrated with their remote controls because sometimes they just couldn't find them. Therefore, the marketing suggested making their new product good-looking and equipped with less buttons and a speech recognition system.


Hon. Steven Blaney questioned that the Canada emergency student benefit did not encourage young people to go to work, and employers had difficulty hiring them. Yet they had applied for the Canadasummer jobs program. Hon. Carla Qualtrough ensured the committee that the member opposite was not implying that offering young people income support that they took out of necessity would make them not want to work. The reason why the government was creating these additional jobs beyond the Canada summer jobs program was the young people wanted to serve the community.


Industrial Designer compared infrared technology with Bluetooth technology, and pointed out that the latter cost more. To build a remote control with Bluetooth was impossible within the budget. He suggested using infrared technology. When it came to the speech function, Industrial Designer didn't give a clear answer for not being sure about the cost, and he/she just left it as something to explore.


According to Kirsty, they would be "seeking assurances". It meant that Neath Port Talbot would need to demonstrate to them how they were going to address these problems. However, so far, they had not seen the plans. But if Neath Port Talbot were to push forward and follow on the notice, they would want to see. Now, what they were doing was waiting for their responses.


Project Manager was concerned about the power required and the cost. The robust voice recognition service embedded on the computer was exemplified by Project Manager to indicate that such software would drag and dictate, but would also require a lot of memory. Moreover, Project Manager admitted that voice recognition was fancy yet unfeasible within the budget.


User Interface thought that with a speech recognition interface, users were choosing the programmes directly instead of pressing the channel number. It was not costly and it was different technology and more powerful.


Grad A explained that his vector contained binary values for whether a phonological feature exists or not. The goal was to come up with a mapping from a feature set to the existence of a particular phonological feature. He was not doing the mapping yet. The goal was simply detecting features at the time.


The professor thought that the model was better now since it had lower latencies. So, he thought that the good VAD was worth the trouble.


Julie Morgan thought the demand was very important, and they were pleased that 29 per cent of children taking up the childcare offer were in Welsh or bilingual settings, so that they established a specific programme to develop Welsh language skills in the childcare and played workforce with the National Centre for Learning Welsh to develop workplace Welsh language skills across the sector. But Suzy Davies thought that just on this early point, anybody who had been through the Welsh education system which is 20 years now, would have Welsh language skills obviously to differing degrees. Next, Nicola Edwards alleged that it was not necessarily appropriate for teaching language to children, because they might be coming from families who didn't use Welsh at home, but it is mainly about getting people to a point where they can transmit that language onwards in a confident and meaningful way.


The first phase of the data collection has finished. There is a new wizard for phase two, during which subjects will be given more complex scenarios. An alternative representation of the Bayes-net, it depicts context features as classes, and dependencies as relations between them. Following this, a visiting researcher presented an overview of a parallel project at the International University. It attempts to build a smart tutoring system for a computer science course. The assumption is that document searches can give more personalised results, if they take into account contextual parameters (user, situation). There were also further suggestions for meetings with ICSI researchers.


For the technologically innovative part, the product was only added with a wheel and the rubber material. In terms of innovation, there still lacked some shining points. Therefore, everyone gave a lower grade compared to other aspects.


This meeting was about the detailed design. Firstly, User Interface presented on the prototype, including the shape, the size of the remote and the user interface including the buttons and the scrolling wheel. Next, the group had an evaluation criterion on the prototype. They scored an overall six point five average on the prototype and thought they had done well on it. Then, the group had a discussion about project finance. The group decided not to have a sample sensor and the locator because they had a production cost of 12.5 Euros. Lastly, the group had a discussion about the project process, including the use of a pen, the whiteboard and the PowerPoint. Also, the group was satisfied with Project Manager's leadership and Project Manager also mentioned that their costs were within the budget as well as some admin work.


The group decided to have only the basic function buttons, including numbers button, power button, skip button, volume button, mute button, teletext button, and menu button.


While discussing the financial issue, the User Interface put forward to making the remote control environmental and not using batteries, the Industrial Design disagreed with him. Because for one thing, no one could guarantee the solar cell work well all the time and for another, it is quite dear to set up a solar system.


The jog dial can be used to control volume, contrast, brightness, channels, auxiliary inputs, color, sharpness, sound, audio, left-right balance, and pre-programmed sound modes.


The opposition party claimed that the Minister of Digital Government has been promoting a fundraising campaign to sue Global News for their story criticizing the Chinese Communist Party, and the opposition party thought the minister was supporting the Communist Party of China and threatening our media and freedom of expression. The Minister explained that community outreach was a very important part of the work of a member of Parliament and WeChat was one of many social media sites regularly used by members, and the minister did not share any personal views on Wechat.


Marketing suggested that the group should focus on young people because they are more open to new devices. And Marketing mentioned that 95% of young people were able to buy a cooler remote control. User Interface asked if the fruit was cool. Marketing suggested they should think about the product in a cool shape. Nevertheless, User Interface suggested an easy-to-use shape. So the group recommended some fruit. Lastly, User Interface mentioned that they needed to have all the buttons with the device.


Ms. Leah Gazan asked for help to tackle homelessness and provide rental assistance. The Minister of Families, Children and Social Development pointed to the ministries efforts to help with essential supplies and expenses.


The meeting started off with petitions from members that included appeals to the Government to take action on issues such as raising the minimum wage for essential workers. The members then moved on to giving statements that included recognition for people who had recently lost their lives, as well as praise and criticism for efforts by the Government and private organizations. Finally, the members quizzed ministers on various issues facing various groups such as farmers and women.


They thought that the number of buttons on existing remote controls should be reduced.So they wanted to make buttons multifunctional to simplify the remote control buttons.And they also thought that the buttons must be internationally recognized.


Project Manager thought the skip buttons and the volume buttons, the two most basic functions, should be designed larger. In this way, the simplicity of the remote could also be accentuated.


Bains said that the threshold for the program had been lowered to a 15% decline in revenue from a 30% decline. Businesses will also be able to compare losses to more recent time periods due to greater flexibility. Bain clarified that the government is listening to businesses and recognizes its need to be agile.


The meeting started off with Marketing leading the discussion on product positioning of the remote, which was going to be an impulse purchase and certain requirements from management, such as the remote only controlling the television. Then, Industrial Designer shared the working design and main components of the remote. Also, they discussed functions that they would add to the remote such as a child lock and the appearance of the remote, such as having a comfortable shape and different colours. User Interface then raised some features that the remote ought to have such as having a timer. Finally, Project Manager stated their target group, which was people aged ten to forty, and they discussed how to cater to their needs, such as having large buttons for the elderly.


The industrial designer and the user interface designer didn't think speech recognition was practical because it would surely be affected by other sounds if the TV was on or people spoke up in the middle of a TV show. Then the project manager proposed to design a button to activate the recognition, but there would be no difference with controlling the TV by just pressing buttons.


For one thing, Marketing argued that target customers as the elder generation tended not to shake their remote controls before using. For another, he believed that the docking station was in a position to load up the batteries, therefore, the basic normal battery would be sufficient for the charging need, which was confirmed by User Interface who pointed out that remote control with a minor display would in no way be power-consuming.


The meeting was mainly about the exchange of the preliminary ideas about a new TV remote control project and subsequent task assignment. The project manager first set a target of making a fifty million Euros' profit from the project, with the unit price of twenty-five Euros. Afterwards, the team raised different opinions about features of the new remote controls and related questions about market potential. Among all the features, having a good look and size was unanimously considered to be the most essential. In the end, Marketing was assigned to investigate market competition and design, and User Interface thinking about shapes, colours and other attributes which would attract customers.


Marketing liked how users could reach all the buttons with one thumb, even for someone with a small hand, so users did not need to shift it around or operate with two hands. Also, it was good that the on-off button was in a prominent place and the colours of the remote were attractive. Mute buttons were on either side so it would work for left- or right-handed people. On the other hand, channel buttons would be inscribed with numbers and the rest would be marked with easily recognized symbols that would be ideal for the international market.


Industrial Designer had started making an overview of the project's three phases respectively. In the present phase, Industrial Designer focused on the basic function of the remote control. Batteries would be incorporated in the remote control to supply energy. Users would press buttons to activate or deactivate certain functions on the TV. In addition, Project Manager suggested that the remote control would use infrared light to communicate the signal to the TV apparatus or stereo. Industrial Designer agreed.


It was discovered by the marketing specialist that people liked to switch channels, thus they had to make a more durable button. The marketing specialist counted the times of usage of every button on the remote control, and wanted to make a user-friendly banner to include all the buttons in. When including the buttons, they took in consideration the relevance and disadvantaged people as well.


Marketing recalled what the team had identified as being important to sell the product for both the devices and made a list of features from the marketing point of view. For both of the prototypes, Marketing asked the team to give one to seven points to each feature of the product and the lower the points the better the feature. For instance, look and feel, innovation and ease of use, were the three important components that Marketing wanted the team to discuss about. This might help with the conclusion whether the product was appealing to the correct demographic and incorporated the fashion trend into it.


PhD D had not read the paper, only the poster on histogram equalization. PhD D reported that the histogram equalization was similar to on-line normalization. There was a histogram for each frequency band.


Industrial Designer proposed to select a combination of solar cells with a back-up basic battery, but Project Manager rejected and preferred a conventional one. In terms of the choice of chips, Industrial Designer pointed out that custom-designed ones were more flexible but would cost more and take a long time, so Project Manager favoured chips off the shelf. However, in view of the significance of technological innovation, the team eventually chose custom-designed ones.


The translation of SmartKom to english is in its final stages. The variety of linguistic conventions seem to develop around an ego/allo-centric and a proximal/distal paradigm. From an engineering perspective, the belief-net for the AVE task should be completed within a few weeks. Since the whole system is going to be re-designed, there are major decisions to be taken regarding the parser and the ontology, as well as what can be re-used from past EML projects. In parallel, another team is working on formalisation and notation. Finally, more ideas are expected to come from students and their research.


For the new forms, one is a one time only speaker form and the other is the digits. The reason the time is included above the date is so that the person who 's extracting the digits will know where to look in the meeting , to try to find them.  In addition to Name, Time and Email which the participant fills out,  the form including seat number, session, native language, region of origin, time spent in an English speaking country, and accent characterization filled by research facilitators, after conducting a short interview.


The meeting was about the impact of Brexit on the capacity of Wales' higher education system and some future risk assessments for the higher education institutions. The group discussed some current problems caused by Brexit, and the efforts they have made for current and future risks, on discussing the Brexit's impact on program Eramus and international mobility. Finally, the group discussed the financial funding barriers and future financial forecast for Wales' higher education system.


Industrial designer introduced the working design including the energy, LED sender, different user interface, and the chipboard with buttons on it. They could put every button under the thumb with an RSI. Then, the group discussed and decided to have removable fronts, a small centralized LCD screen, and a power button with 10 other setting buttons.


The user interface designer recommended adding a hand dynamo which could produce electricity from mechanical energy so that it could provide enough energy for the device when users took the controller and pushed the buttons. The proposal was accepted by the group.


The group felt that the remote control didn't need a lot of buttons,and on the basis of ensuring originality, it should also ensure conventionality and make it applicable to all kinds of groups.


Marketing suggested that the fancy design on the remote control is important to customers according to his research, so the buttons could be shaped like fruit and vegetables, and the buttons could be made out of rubber rather than hard plastic.


Kirsty Williams thought this process was independent of the Government, and it would not be very appropriate to comment on it. From the very outset of their ITE reforms, they had made it clear that they expected very high standards in the ITE system, but this process was independent of the Government. More specifically with the concern of the impact on students and staff, Kirsty Williams mentioned that this would be a responsibility of University of South Wales itself.


They decide that they shall implement the feeling from our company into the remote so they have to implement a logo, a slogan or a sign. Industrial Designer thinks that to make it more recognisable, next to the logo they should have the slogan. And the project manager decided that the slogan from the company should be put on the back with a logo, and the logo also is also on the front when changing fronts.


Qualification Wales was the regulator of the awarding bodies, mainly focusing on the design of the qualifications and the delivery of the assessment. They were also responsible for maintaining standards, making sure that the grades people got were fair through comparable outcomes.


Industrial Designer considered batteries as the energy source. Marketing thinks that changing batteries all the time could possibly be annoying, so she suggests other energy options like solar charging. But Industrial Designer refutes this problem because people change batteries simply every six months. User Interface raised the question on the operational distance of the infra-red signal and hoped that the remote control could be equipped with a strong signal stream. But Project Manager rendered it unnecessary because TV is always put in a short distance. Later the team discussed the necessity of through-wall signal and Bluetooth, and decided that this idea remained an idea for some budget reasons and the lack of necessity.


The meeting discussed the progress of the transcription, the DARPA demos, tools to ensure meeting data quality, data standardization, backup tools, and collecting tangential meeting information. The team was making good progress on the transcription but was still concerned with correcting some of the data. Besides that, they were working on adapting the THISL GUI for their project and figuring out visual tools for meeting participants to help them know when their recording equipment was failing. The team also discussed collecting additional information, like laughter and breath data as well as meeting notes.


The group talked about the status of the first test set of digits data, naming conventions for files, speaker identification tags, and encoding files with details about the recording. The group also discussed a proposal for a grant from the NSF's ITR (Information Technology Research) program, transcriptions, and efforts by speaker mn005 to detect speaker overlap using harmonicity-related features. Particular focus was paid to questions about transcription procedures, i.e. how to deal with overlooked backchannels, and audible breaths.


One meeting recording has been channelized and pre-segmented for delivery to IBM. A subset of Meeting Recorder data will be prepared (i.e. pre-segmented and manually adjusted) for delivery to IBM.


Industrial Designer thought the meeting was not friendly to the brainstorming. The restriction was not about the atmosphere but related to the actual environment and the limited time for discussion. Besides, the interaction was structured, meaning each individual took charge of one particular task without enough collaboration between each other. Also, communication through email was inefficient.


The group needed Dave Johnson to install the some one hundred SUN - Blades that had arrived and would help with storage. But Dave Johnson, the professor informed them, was leaving for ten days. The Professor informed the group that Dave was always busy and the group realized that there was no dedicated person who could help them.


The whole meeting was focused on the conceptual design of the new remote control product. After Project Manager briefly reaffirmed the agreements reached in previous meetings, Marketing, User Interface, and Industrial Designer each gave a presentation about trend-watching, interface design, and components design respectively. Then, Project Manager started a group discussion about important points just covered, including energy source, voice recognition, LCD screen, as well as case design, on which more emphasis was paid in the last half of the meeting. Finally, the group roughly drew out a specific case design.


Project Manager first announced that their product was only going to be a TV remote instead of a multifunctional one, and that the yellow colour and the slogan of their company should be included in their design. Their target group should be people of all ages with little to no technical literacy. The specific functions of their remote should include sending messages to the TV, lost-and-found assistance, and speech recognition. A menu button could be designed to cover all various additional functions.


The meeting consisted of participants giving an update on their projects. The team learned that the Eurospeech paper was accepted. PhD C told the team about strange activity in on-line normalization with regards to C-zero and C-one. Grad A shared his work on quals and intention to start cheating experiments. Grad G informed the team that phase normalization was coming along after a bug was fixed, but the results were still not great. Finally, the team discussed Weiner filtering for the Aurora task and the mathematical formulation of the VTS.


Marketing mentioned that most of the young people to thirty years old were interested in this kind of technology. However, Project Manager updated him and group mates that head offices would like to restrict the remote control to TV only because of time limitations. Therefore, Project Manager suggested the group focusing more on the internet aspects because the teletext was outdated and it should be clear that the corporate image should be clearly identified in the product.


The user interface believed that changes, be them rational or revolutionary, once made, would be hindrances to customers' usage.


There is no channel identifier to help in encoding speaker overlaps. Speech uttered while laughing is problematic for ASR. So far, speaker mn005's attempts to detect speaker overlap have been unsuccessful, as it has not been possible to normalize energy as a reliable indicator of overlap.


Marketing had some evaluation criteria in mind, based on previous marketing strategy, on the latest trends, and on user preferences. The team should figure out whether their product could solve the complaints of the ugly remote control. There was a seven-point scale rating for each criterion. The team would give comments to each feature listed and agree on the final rating.


C developed an XML format that links together utterances based on time tags, essentially creating a lattice. The XML format would be divided into many sections, each with its own ID and timeline tag. The XML format could be modified to deal with smaller linguistic units since that would only entail changing the timestamps. Despite being easy to use, the format was not efficient for smaller linguistic units, like phones. It would work for word units, at best.


The team thought that the differences in performance between well-matched and high mismatch may have to do with the frame dropping problem. Tinkering around and changing a few small things was suggested as a way of improving performance. The team though it would also be nice to have the net on the server side where it would use less bandwidth. The team also discussed if averaging over the entire spectrum was a good idea.


Users can't change the volume rapidly by using two discrete buttons for volume. While by using a potential-meter or a slider, the user can mute it down or make a high volume in one second.


Ms. Anju Dhillon would like to thank the members of the Canadian Armed Forces for their invaluable assistance in the long-term care facilities. Since many seniors, the most vulnerable ones desperately needed them and they had offered great assistance.


A small percentage of transcripts will be changed to reflect mis-read, uncorrected digits. A speaker database will be compiled to establish consistent links between speakers and their corresponding identification tags.


In the discussion, team members did presentations and talked about the design of the remote control. Project Manager introduced the aim of the second meeting and new project requirement. Project Manager said that the team did not need to pay attention to teletext and lighting adaptive. Then Industrial Designer, User Interface and Marketing gave presentations respectively. Industrial Designer proposed that they could add software functionalities on programmable chips and could use the FPGA. User Interface focused on reducing the number of buttons and recommended navigation buttons. Marketing discussed a lot of ideas including using a speech recogniser, the size of the remote control and lighting adaptive options. In the end they discussed some topics like teletext and accessing the Internet.


The team thought that it was not fair to get a good VAD since there weren't enough baseline features. An MFCC would have been more appropriate, but optimizing for one meant lower scores on the other. In general, the model was better now due to lower latencies.


This was a Children, Young People and Education Committee, and it was the sixth scrutiny session on the Children Bill, specifically on Abolition of Defense of Reasonable Punishment. To start this meeting, Alastair Birch shared opinion on why people think the current law was inefficient and unclear, and then Sally Jenkins listed some evidence that physical punishment was actually harmful. Then they had some discussions on how to balance the need for greater clarity around the definition of what constitutes corporal punishment, and the importance of simplicity in the Bill. This discussion led to a further discussion on the implementation phase for that nuancing, and its impact on other services. After sharing all of these positive feedbacks in terms of the Bill and its intention, they had some discussions on unintended consequences for this Bill. Then some specific questions on implementation for social services, and its impact on education were proposed and answered. Finally, they had some discussions on the importance of awareness raising.


One of the graduate students is working on building the PDA of the future. The idea is to be able to record meetings for personal use and then query them for pertinent information. The data collection will be anonymized to a large extent, but not so much that the meeting does not represent a real scenario. This meeting will be one of the recorded meetings.


Firstly, User Interface and Industrial Designer introduced the prototype of remote control based on the previous discussion of its form, material and the colour. The prototype was a pretty simple design with an obvious company logo on it and two buttons in the middle. Secondly, Marketing designed an evaluation test under the guidance of the advantages of its main features discussed before and the team gave one to seven points to each feature of the product to see if the prototype would meet the original requirements and goals. Lastly, the team calculated the cost of the prototype and found that it was not easy to land on the exact budget. After trying to incorporate as many functions as the team could for a while, the team decided to use regular chips, normal batteries and a combination of cheap materials and fancy ones, which made the budget under control.


"Triple RC" made the product look like a triple remote control, but it was only a single remote control. In addition, the important part was triple R anyway, Real Reaction Remote. Therefore, they decided to drop C from this name, and just keep "triple R".


The professor suggested delving deep into the different types of errors in the difference between silence and speech means. He thought that training and testing in the same kind of white noise would be an effective strategy. In his opinion, the differences were hurting the recognition, even though they were not too big.


When talking about the evaluations on the increasing suicide crimes during the COVID-19, Vaughan Gething said that in order to prevent more tragedies, they had been offering mental health care for the people. Even if most public service had to be shut down during the outbreak, the staff at the crisis help continued to be available. In addition, they had a seven-day-a-week crisis care, which they hoped that could also be a long-term service to help people in need even after this particular period.


The minister explained that the government was committed to advancing on the issues that have been identified by Canadians with disabilities and they were continuing that engagement. However, the opposition party argued that the support was delayed several times. The minister argued that they had done a lot, such as establishing the COVID-19 disability advisory group, comprising experts in disability inclusion.


Transcription checking procedures were reviewed, and efforts to coordinate the channelization and presegmention of data with the tightening of time bins were discussed.


Funds were requested to help fight human trafficking that affected vulnerable women and girls. There was concern for the rise in women abuse going up by as much as 400% and funds to support organizations to fight this not being released. Additionally, the members were made aware of the stripping of titles from First Nation women.


Kirsty believed that it was really important for them to understand how Neath Port Talbot intended to support their schools and their teachers if they were to withdraw from ERW, especially at what was a critical time. They wanted to know from Neath Port Talbot how they were going to do that without being part of the organization. Additionally, Kirsty was curious about how they were going to safeguard their schools and make sure that the children who were receiving their education in Neath Port Talbot were not disadvantaged if they were to follow through on that decision.


In response to the opposition party, the Prime Minister answered that the government rolled out the Canada emergency response benefit extremely quickly, and they had been helping the small businesses with the Canada emergency business account. The opposition party was not very satisfied because he thought that the government did not reach out to as many businesses as possible. Also, the opposition party made a few comments on the rent relief program which was too rigid and hard to apply.


As the data collection is about to begin, there are some minor changes to be done in the design of the experiment, the script and the permission forms. Subjects can be recruited either from within the university or through other social circles.


The meeting was about caring Welsh children during the outbreak of COVID-19. Due to the coronavirus, the state was locked down and a strict social distance was required, and then most schools in Welsh were shut down. The group was concerned whether the existing support was enough to ensure their children get through such a period healthily, in terms of both mentally and physically. They listed several possible solutions, including having the vaccination on the susceptible group, offering psychological support for the children as well as the pregnant women, and raising a contingency fund. Through their asking and answering with the ministers, the group finally agreed on a bright blueprint for the education and economic recovery in Welsh.


Meilyr Rowlands introduced that the grant had been targeted far better by now than it was originally and it was very specific towards the different use of the fund in each aspect of the school day, especially for those students eligible for free school meals. However, Llyr Gruffydd AM questioned that research by Ipsos MORI and the Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research, Data and Methods had shown that there was some kind of blurring. Meilyr Rowlands indicated that although schools were not following the exact process, the spirit of PDG was included, which was fair enough.


Postdoc F said or a control experiment,  having a number of meetings with a smaller group of people may be useful. Since most of the meetings currently have between five and eight people, the control would have three person meetings.


When everybody was using buttons, a scroll wheel would be new and different, which might push somebody over the edge when they were looking at the new controller versus something else. Plus, many people today were television surfers, and the scroll was a great mechanism for surfing. But there were two problems with the scroll wheel. On one hand, it broke down easily and would bring down the robustness of the whole product. On the other hand, users had to scroll really slowly to keep in pace with the TV's ability to change channels, which would be frustrating.


When the group was talking about the scroll wheel could be for changing the volume, User Interface thought it would not work for changing the channel because they really need buttons for changing a channel. So User Interface suggested the group could make a decision on it while they talked about the case.


In the discussion, the team agreed that the good look and size were two vital features of the new TV remote controls. Unfortunately, the team failed to reach a consensus in this meeting about the size, but they left it to the next meeting.


Dane Lloyd asked about the budget given by the government in the economic recession, This was to table an economic update and provide jobs. As for the disabilities, Louise Chabot pointed to the bill regarding the disabilities and why it was not passed.


PhD E explained that the best result was when FFT bins were applied with a Wiener filter and no noise was added. The results with noise addition were very close, but not as good.


Industrial designer thought that if they only used LCD displays, backlight radio frequency communication with the TV set and other related things, the price would be ok. However, if speech recognition was required, the price would be out of range. And he preferred IR circuits because it was much cheaper.


The opposition party raised the problem that thousands of Canadian workers were exposed and vulnerable, and might experience bankruptcy anytime. The opposition party also stated that the changes the government made last year to bankruptcy insolvency laws were largely cosmetic and would not protect workers' and pensioners' livelihoods once bankruptcy hits. The Minister explained that they were continuing to absolutely ensure that pensions are protected.


The User Interface thought it was reasonable to replace the titanium with titanium-coloured plastic. When discussing how to reduce the cost of the product, the user interface designer insisted that if they could only choose to save the titanium exterior or the LCD screen, it would be a better choice to save the LCD screen and dump the titanium cover but replacing it with hard plastics. The result was the major of the group including Marketing agreeed the suggestion.


The group wanted the lighting up to be a faint glow, so that it would not cause a sudden explosion of light in a dim environment. At the same time, the glowing buttons would be made in the shape of numbers so that the vision-impaired people would be taken care of. Meanwhile, they wished the glow was in neon style so that they could implement the company's colour in it and make it trendy.


The first question was about how they should make it clear that the legislation is not trying to criminalize parents, and who should be responsible for this. Sally Jenkins responded that those drivers in relation to that awareness raising should be the key. There were a lot of ways for this including preventative services, universal services and etc. Then they had some discussions on whether the awareness raising should be on the face of the Bill and who should pay for this. Huw David was not sure whether being on the Bill was necessary, but he said it was worth consideration. Welsh Government Ministers should have a duty on this.


Farmers were faced by inaccessibility of financial aid due to the complicated online calculator. Even after consulting with accountants, it still wasn't clear on how to navigate the assistance program.


The remote control did not need very much power. Users could put it on the charger when they did not need to use it. People don't like it to have to buy the batteries when they run out, so a charger could be more user friendly.


According to the Project Manager, it was hard to have speech recognition in remotes and no products in the market now used this function well. There was mainly one reason: the noise interference problem, which was too expensive to solve. Luckily, the User Interface came up with an idea to have something built into the TV that people could press and then it would send out a little signal. The Industrial Designer agreed and proposed to have a microphone by the TV speaker and a transmitter there to send back to their remotes. Such design was subtractive cancellation of the noise.


Project Manager thought a spongy remote would be easier on the hands, while Industrial Designer thought a latex case was hard to protect the stuff inside. Due to the discussion about repetitive stress injuries mentioned before, they didn't want to go for the spongy remote. Marketing supplemented that grippable thing was more than like sinking into the hands, so Marketing preferred the material like the one people have when sitting on a bicycle.


A detailed diagram of the EVA belief-net was presented and some of the intermediate nodes and their properties were discussed in depth. Some of the key features and properties are: "Go-there", which is binary, and defined by the user, situation, ontology and discourse models; "timing" (current/next tour); "reason" (business, sight-seeing, socialising); "transport"; "length of tour"; "costs"; "entity" (open, accessible) etc.


As identified by Estyn, most schools are using this money to good effect. When PDG first started,in some schools it was spent on investing in tracking children, because they had never thought about tracking these children, they didn't have systems in place to look at the performance of these children and to have a system in place. Now they have moved from spending money on the infrastructure around support for FSM children into actual inputs in terms of teaching and learning. And they have appointed regional PDG advisers to better deploy the fund.


To answer this question, Kirsty Williams AM first introduced the achievements that the new system of student finance did again shift the parameters of influence that HEFCW or any new tertiary commission could have in the different situations, as a direct result of the changing scenario. Moreover, it was a great success to see all institutions sign up to becoming living wage employers, all institutions sign up to the Welsh Government's code of ethical procurement.


Hon. Ahmed Hussen appreciated the work of the summer jobs program which can provide both financial resources and necessary experience for young people. Thus the investment of the Canada summer jobs problem would be continued.


The marketing thought it not easy to keep pressing 'next' to get to the channel people wanted. Then the user interface designer offered a solution that users could set up the channels that they often watched as one, two, and three so that they would never have to go through dozens of channels. However, in the Marketing's previous presentation, some people did love zapping, so the user interface designer suggested carrying out some research to find out how many people really needed to skip from one channel to another.


First of all, secondary school pupils got to notice the differences between their everyday life at school and somehow felt not cared about. It was also more of a challenge for a secondary school to provide an effective set of support from that whole-staff awareness of some of the challenges. That is to say, it was more difficult for teachers in secondary schools to pick up signs that pupils may be struggling.


The marketing put forward three aspects in product requirements. Most importantly, the look and feel of the remote control should make it stand out from the rest products on the market. Second, it had to be technologically innovative so that people would be attracted to buy it. Third, it should be user-friendly. After that, the group discussed some specific ways to fulfill these requirements.


The corporate colour and design are recommended to be used on the product. The remote could be in different colours such as pink or banana yellow and shapes such as a fun shape like animal shapes or a comfortable shape that fits the hand but no sharp projections, lest a child plays with it. The idea of buttons with various shapes such as a triangle for volume and square for channels was considered. Everyone agreed that the text on the remote should be clear and the remote should be compact.


The focus of the meeting was on a presentation of the work done already on the building of the Bayes-net. The complete prototype of the Bayes-net will be presented in the next meeting. After that, it will be possible to define interfaces and a dummy construction parser, in order to test and link modules together.


The interfaces shown on the slides were a remote that had voice recognizer with multi-purpose use such as for TV and cable-satellite, a simple and compact one that a child can use and could play with it and a big oversized remote that cannot be misplaced. The team agreed that the T-shaped design and the children-friendly interface were nice but the over-big one was not ideal.


The project manager thought that the shape of the remote control can be designed as a bone or cube to reduce the number of buttons, and add the company's yellow and grey color. Marketing believed that anti lost equipment can be designed. Since it's a one-handed project, Marketing proposed to design a special version for left-hand users. User Interface thought that the sphere is not suitable for one hand use, the rectangle variant can be used. The more important the button is, the bigger it is and the closer it is to the thumb for easy operation.


This was the third meeting of conceptual design, including three presentations and a conclusive discussion to make some specific decisions. First, Industrial Designer introduced and led to a discussion about different options for the components of the circuit board, the energy sources, and the materials of casing and button. Next, User Interface gave the second presentation about interface concept and two types of user interfaces: the graphical user interface and the command interface, and strongly recommended the latter. The last presentation by Marketing reported the trend-watching for remote control and the relevant discussion centralized the trendy theme of vegetable and fruit. Given all of the information, the group eventually decided on some special designs, such as the kinetic energy, the regular chip, the plastic rubber coat, the interchangeable plate, the command line interface, and the basic buttons.


Industrial Designer proposed that the team could have just numbers for channels and the speech recogniser should be able to distinguish between different voices and deal with noises.


The discussion centered on the extent to which the recordings should be segmented for the corpus and which recordings should be included in the corpus. The team expressed that it would be helpful to filter out breath and non-verbal sounds. It also expressed that for two person conversations and transcripts that do not follow their general meeting setup, it could create a different directory.


Project Manager considered easy-to-use and easy-to-find as the two main frustrations in designing remote controls. But at the same time, such frustrations may pronounce a serious competitive advantage for the project without making too complex stuff or using too much time to develop.


Marketing first talked about the fact that it was often hard to see the buttons in the dark. Industrial Designer followed by pointing out that remotes tend to go missing a lot, and thus a tracking device would be really helpful. User Interface then proposed that there are too many unnecessary buttons on a current remote, and a hidden panel for less used buttons would be useful. Project Manager further suggested that their remote could be some other shape instead of the standard rectangular, while the team reminded her that their product must be both novel and universally acceptable.


After Project Manager recapped the decisions made in the last meeting, such as having a child lock and display clock, User Interface started the presentation regarding how to make the interface more attractive to customers. Then, Industrial Designer gave the presentation on the component design of the remote, which was divided into two parts - the components in the remote and the working design. Afterwards, Marketing reported findings for marketing like the people wanting fewer buttons which the functions were obvious. In the end, Project Manager wrapped up the meeting, concluding what had to be done by each of them for the next meeting.


Jo-Anne Daniels finally came to the conclusion that they could deliver a cheaper system with flexibility that the Deputy Minister had referred to by working with local authorities rather than HMRC. At the moment, the extra cost would be about £2.5 million, which according to their initial estimate suggested that it would be less than the cost proposed by HMRC.


Hon. Bill Blair, Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness, stated that the priority must be the protection of the health and safety of Canadians, and restrictions for non-essential travel, and a 14-day quarantine was required for those who had an essential purpose.


Kirsty Williams explained to the committee members that the funding would go via consortia to schools. Individual schools had the right to plan independently in which aspects they would spend the money in order to meet the professional learning needs of their staff. Thus, if the schools realized that they had particular needs for the baccalaureate, they would spend the money in the area to seek improvement.


The user interface designer stressed that they should design nothing but a remote control because their principle was to make users' simple desires into simple actions. Therefore, the proposed concept for the design included just a few buttons, a screen with a back light which can change colours and titanium, which was accepted by the group.


The color of the prototype was yellow and the material was half rubber and half plastic with a company logo. Moreover, it could be curved inside to cover the buttons which were big and blue except the power button. Besides, both the button and joystick could switch the device off and the joystick was especially designed to control the channel and volume to make the device more fashionable. The team agreed that it was overall a good design.


Given the customer demand and conferees personal experiences, several designing requirements were proposed during the discussion. The remote control was decided to be adaptable to multiple devices with few buttons, be able to be lighted in the dark and held in hand, and be both water-proof and shock-proof along with a whistle tracking system, based on which advantage over competitors might well be gained at the price of a rising production cost.


It would be simpler if it's just for television because there were fewer buttons, which would benefit older people or people that weren't very co-ordinated hand-eye.


The preparation of files for transcription by IBM is facing some minor difficulties, as some features (hand-coded time boundaries, multiplicity of channels etc) may complicate the generation of beep files.


At first, Project Manager pointed out that the key lied in users' pain point, which was the trouble of losing remote controls. The team then started brainstorming in this direction, coming up with ideas such as a can opener, bouncing pads, big buttons, flashy design, changeable fronts, etc. Later on, Project Manager put forward the idea of having a gadget like a vase to be put on the table, for containing the remote control. This idea then developed into one containing a base that could charge and track the remote control.


The recognizer performed well on time-aligned segments labelled as 'non-overlap' (i.e. one person talking), while segments labelled as 'overlap' (i.e. multiple speakers talking at the same time) yielded poor results


Project Manager insisted the manifestation of company image on the remote control, like the slogan, symbol or other recognizable patterns. Marketing thought the remote controls should be in the same colour, while Project Manager thought it unnecessary. User Interface suggested that the pattern needs to be recognisable. Industrial Designer gave an example that the RR logo or thematic colours could be placed around the lock button.


Project Manager thought that setting the selling target was of high importance for a big international company making marketing plans including sales target.


The professor thought the LPC had two problems. It was adding degradation and there was an issue with pitch. The professor also expressed that the LPC was throwing away information that was useful.


Eurospeech was taking place in Denmark and the team was planning on submitting a paper to it. The team was also discussing how to best present the reverberation problem. The team thought that the spectral effects of the reverberation were very clear. They would have to figure out how to remove the sources of variance from the data to capture only the main voice.


Project Manager supported spongy material because of its robust quality and wanted to prioritize the wheel since it differentiated their remote from competitors. Project Manager also thought that the banana would be a good choice since it will be easy to find.


When it comes to continuing mental health service during the lockdown, Vaughan Gething insisted that it was of great necessity to carry out a mental health recovery plan that with such a system, government can ensure the children could enjoy a healthy mental state during the school lockdown. However, at present they had not yet finished a detailed research in this job for that they were still under the cooperation with health boards to get a whole perspective of the situation.


This meeting took up the discussion from the last one. They specified the ideas brought up last time and adapted them according to the market potentials and budget limits. Marketing first reported their findings of market potentials. Altogether, they summarized four conclusions: (1) consumers were willing to spend more for fancy products (2) the current products didn't always match users' operating behaviours (3) a lot of buttons weren't used (4) they were not fun to use. Then, the team came up with a novel feature of automatic speech recognition to retrieve the remotes. In the latter half of the meeting, the team decided that the following functions would be for the new remotes: speech recognition, limited buttons, organic design, programmability, glowing in dark, and integrating the logo and slogan.


Though Project Manager brought up scroll button and joystick as possible options, Industrial rejected that idea by arguing that the elderly were not accustomed to using them, therefore basic layout would be sufficient. Then Marketing further pointed out that there was not so much to gain in the competition of less buttons, as very few buttons would be needed for a TV remote anyway. Project Manager accepted those ideas.


The project manager wanted to remove the kinetic function as the manager thought it would be a desirable cost reduction. However, the industrial designer did not agree with the project manager because the designer thought it would be a good marketing promotion as people would think that remote controls with kinetic function are cool. Since they still wanted the price to remain on the same level, they decided to adapt the control into a flat one so as to minimize the cost.


Future efforts will involve an attempt to get good forced alignments on digits data and generate a report for Eurospeech'01.


They believe that if they can get it right for our most vulnerable learners, they'll be getting it right for all of our learners. An emerging theme is the impact, the growing awareness and the growing numbers of children who have attachment disorder, and how schools are best able to respond to that in their children.  So, vulnerable learners, regardless of their background, will benefit from having teachers who are better trained, understanding and have intervention strategies in place to be able to address that need. And this is an action applied across four regions.


The production cost was 12.5 Euros. So, the group decided to have one simple battery, no kinetic energy, no solar, one advanced chip on print, one sample speaker, one single-curved surface which can be folded, push-buttons, the scroll wheel, the LCD display. And they decided to give up the sample sensor as well as the locator.


The Industrial Design was not quite satisfied with the skin colours. He thought there were not enough colours for them to work with, however, the Marketing believed that the Industrial Design could have developed more colours for the group. This might be a pity of their teamwork.


When discussing the official commitments, Eluned Morgan had great confidence in the government that they would provide firm support for the Wales universities. But as for Llyr Gruffydd, he did not think that the institutions would be able to rely on the official funding much, and more importantly, if they would like to enter into the agreements at present, they would interrupt their current work, which would also put themselves in great risk.


Project Manager introduced a new remote control project for television. At first, team members got their roles. Then they discussed what had to be done to design a remote control which had different features. Priority will be given to the functions. For example, team members hoped that users could choose what they want not by channels but by contents. To implement the functions, they discussed a lot, such as speech recognition interface and navigation buttons.


The user interface said that no matter large or small, taking in hand easily was the most important thing. The project manager also wanted the shape to be fashionable. Considering that the colour of their company was yellow, they decided to make the shape of the remote control like a banana.


The whole meeting was focused on the target group and the functionality of the new remote control product. After Project Manager briefly reaffirmed the meeting procedure, Marketing, Industrial Designer, and User Interface each gave a presentation about trend-watching, working design, technical function respectively. Then, Project Manager started a group discussion about the demand for teletext and video, for which thick key design was accepted as a feasible solution. Then, the group discussed the target group based on the predetermined budget, and accepted universality as an important feature.


The log magnitude spectral subtraction used twelve seconds from the past and future to calculate the mean. The short window did not have a big effect on the model performance, which was much desired. The silence, for the most part, had been cut out to make the model more effective. The professor added that the system was similar to caching utterances.


Marketing wondered if all the buttons were easy to find. User Interface thought most of the buttons were easy to find except options. Options were easy to find by touch. Meanwhile, Industrial Designer thought all the buttons were easier to find than a regular remote control. However, marketing insisted that options were not found that easy.


Marketing and User Interface agreed on the importance of fewer buttons for a user-centered remote. Marketing and User Interface also agreed on the importance of the appearance of a remote control.


By doing research on other companies' design and ideas, Marketing pointed out that the market the remote control aimed at should be a fairly large one and that the product itself should have a brand new, attractive design and be simple to use.


Marketing believed this feature would improve the market competitiveness of this product based on a conducted survey on user requirement. One the one hand, 80% of the 15-35 year-old group are willing to spend more money for trendy new products. 75% - 90% of this group is willing to pay for speech recognition on a remote even though it is of higher price. On the other hand, half of the users said the remote control got lost easily and most of the time were hard to find. With speech recognition, however, this problem could be solved.


Materials could be made from plastic, rubber or wood and the remote could be in different cases. Speech recognition was pending for more research on how much it cost. In addition, there were doubts from Industrial Designer on this feature as there might be trouble in recognizing different voices.


Huw Irranca-Davies said the situation in the Valleys (model) was an example of what the team would like to see. This proved that the £4.50 seemed to work.


Project Manager thought the beeping device was not easy to learn but Industrial Marketing thought the design expert should put more time on the ease of use design than a manual because they didn't have much time. While Project Manager mentioned that they were a design team, they could find some writers to make a manual point which could help maintain consistency with the older remote manual for the users.


The group mainly talked about the detailed design of the product at this meeting. First, the industrial designer introduced the function design of the product. It had not only some basic functions, but also the locator function and provided users with a revolutionary way of zapping. Later, the group went on to check the controller's paging ability and talked about more details on buttons. Next, the marketing expert mentioned three things making the product marketable and one possible drawback of the product. Besides, the marketing recommended making it upgradable but the project manager pointed out the risk of doing that. When evaluating the cost of the product, the group discussed some details of the components and made some adjustments. They finally got an estimate of fifteen point eight Euros, which was within the budget. In the end, they did some self-assessment and celebrated the completion of the project.


User Interface and Industrial designer expressed a desire to integrate cutting-edge features into the remote. Marketing pointed out that most of the market will buy it for standard use, like changing channels and adjusting volume, so those features should be the priority. Project Manager agreed, explaining that people expect a well-functioning, normal remote for their proposed product price of 25 Euros.


The data collection that will provide relevant dialogues is moving along, with thirty subjects already lined up. They will be given a reading task, which will include some german proper names, and a series of tasks from the tourist domain to choose from. In order to get directions, they will then communicate with a computer system and a human operator, using a sketchy map as an aid. A different set of data are already available from the SmartKom system and similar sources.


Julie Morgan answered questions about the bill's impact on other agencies, including the social service, MASHs, CAFCASS. Morgan emphasized the dependence of their work as well as the feasibility of workload changed by the bill.


Marketing introduced market research that suggested the best remote design would be spongy and take the form of a fruit or vegetable. The initial contenders for the remote shape were banana, apple, and pear. Banana won because of its colour and easily identifiable shape.


Industrial Designer suggested that there could be more buttons and the buttons could be smaller. If having the speech recognition feature was feasible, buttons would be added for recording speech so Marketing suggested that one of the mute buttons could be eliminated to make room and Industrial Designer and User Interface agreed. Marketing also suggested volume control could be put on one button.


The team was gathering data from different languages and preparing relevant baselines. The professor reiterated that the multilingual focus was key since the reason for this project was to replace mel cepstra with a more robust, multilingual model. They needed sufficient diversity in the languages they used.


User Interface presented a general layout of remote control functionalities. The ergonomic shape of the remote control could raise product customizability. User Interface proposed to incorporate a flip screen and to add a LCD light to show battery life. User Interface also gave suggestions on possible positioning of the key pad. To summarize, User Interface preferred the design to be simple and clear.


The professor explained that the task typically relied on R-one over R-zero as a measure. He thought that the team should explore the difference between the log FFT and the log magnitude FF spectrum and the filter bank. These were fundamentally different measures which could help the model.


The group had a discussion about the first remote control with cable and huge buttons on it. So they would like to try new technology like a touch screen and nicer materials for the remote, which was important for technology improvement.


Ms. McPherson wanted to know how the government will respond to outbreaks in meat-packing plants since workers' pleas to place effective safety protocols have been fruitless. She further inquired if the federal government would provide financial support to the workers if they declined to work under unsafe conditions, and, if it comes to it, shut down the plants. She finally wanted to know if the Cargill business, which uses Luxembourg as a tax haven, was the recipient of pandemic relief funds.


For the logo to remain despite latex cover changes, Project Manager proposed to print it on a button. Yet User Interface opposed this idea for fear that the print would wear off. Industrial Designer suggested putting the logo on the back of the remote, but this option was ruled out since the logo must be always visible. User Interface presented another option where the remote would consist of two pieces, but this too was incompatible with the cover design. Finally, Industrial Designer suggested leaving a cut-out space on latex covers to show the logo, and all agreed on this design.


Kirsty Williams was not aware of any disadvantages to Cardiff Met. In terms of students and staff, there would be some personal impact on them. However, in terms of institutions going forward, Kirsty Williams was not aware that they were currently struggling with any disadvantages. Instead of looking at the past, Kirsty Williams thought they needed to look at the future. It had turned out that they got a strong institution in Cardiff Met.


The team first hesitated between double A and triple A batteries. Double A's would be more convenient for customers, since most people usually have this type around. However, triple A batteries would allow the remote to be thinner. Industrial Designer then proposed that they could also try a small lithium battery. With all these possible options, Project Manager decided that they should leave this question aside and move on with the meeting, as long as they kept the battery problem in mind.


Preliminary recognition results were obtained for a subset of digits data. The error rate distribution was multimodal, reflecting differences in performance for native versus non-native speakers, and also possible pre-processing errors.


Kirsty Williams admitted that the qualification examinations would bring pressure to students. In fact, as he pointed out, students were prone to form a wrong impression that the more they had achieved, the more successful they would get. Thus, he expressed his desire to guide the students to make the right decisions in terms of their A-Levels and baccalaureate.


Transcribers risk overlooking speech that is deeply embedded in the mixed signal. Should transcriptions be derived from each of the close-talking channels or from the mixed signal alone? The pre-segmentation tool does not perform well on short utterances, e.g. backchannels.


User Interface made a presentation on buttons the control should include and on the layout of the buttons. The team vetoed the idea of the speech recognition interface which is expensive and unnecessary. At last the team decided not to have any sort of display, but a simple straight set of push-buttons, with a power, channel up, channel down, volume up, volume down, a numerical keypad, and a lock button or a cover. Then they discussed some supplements like colours or particular gimmicky bits. User Interface proposed the utilization of a couple of colours like black and yellow, with special parts like the RR logo in yellow. User Interface suggested having a rubber case for safety reasons.


According to Kirsty, children might well have done lots of oral exams in their English and in their Welsh language. Therefore, they had lots of pieces of work that would have been externally verified. They certainly would ensure that these concerns were passed on. Their job was to make the decision on the examinations on the basis of having confidence that what could be put in places was fair and was equitable, and they had the confidence that they would be the case.


The team felt that the current file system they were using was running out of space, specifically back-up capacity. They needed to figure out a way to back-up the data they were collecting. They decided that the tape system that ICSI has is pretty reliable. But they needed to discuss the matter with the system administrator.