The Chair brought the meeting to order, announcing that the purpose of the meeting was to discuss COVID-19 's impact on Canada. Five petitions were presented: to recognize indeginous languages as official languages of Canada, to improve the organ donation system, to push for a made-in-Canada green economy, to decriminalize drug possession to improve public health, and to protect firearm ownership of law-abiding firearm owners. Mr. Pierre Paul-Hus suggested that the government should not try to pass gun-control legislation or release prisoners during the pandemic. The Prime Minister disagreed, claiming that both passing gun-control and releasing imprisoned Canadians who did not pose a threat to society advanced the safety of Canadians.


User Interface mentioned the banana-shaped wireless phone that sold a hundred Euros and more, which was very high. Compared with this, the price of their product was very attractive for the customers which was just 25 Euros. Customers would be very willing to buy it.


Firstly, Industrial Designer presented on the remote components including the circuit board, the chip, the kinetic energy, the solar cell, the case shape and the interface. Next, User Interface presented on user interface including the mechanisms to operate and input data, the shape and the size, the buttons and the voice recognition as well as the scroll wheel. Then, Marketing presented on market trends. In consideration of the target age group and technology innovation, Marketing suggested the group could go for LCD, the colours and the voice recognition as well as the flat spongy material based on current trends.


Interface developer was asked to work on the design of the remote control. User interface designer was asked to work on the technical functions of the remote control while marketing was responsible for finding the user requirements for the remote control.


When the group suggested having the implementation of parents' log-on screen in the remote, Industrial Designer thought it would be not worth investing much time and effort to program. However, Project manager disagreed with this because there would be a huge market for parental control when they heard from magazines that many parents thought their children were influenced by televisions. Also, Project Manager mentioned that their target group was below forty, and lots of families had children at a young age.


When Industrial Designer demonstrated two different remote controls, Project Manager thought neither of them was pretty. Mentioning about the cool look about the functional design, Industrial Designer suggested taking consideration of the cool appeal into the selling point of fashion remote because there was a market for cool looking technology and ergonomic design.


The prototype was a pretty simple design with an obvious company logo on it and two buttons in the middle. There were also power buttons and nine others for switching channels with the incorporation of the menu and teletext. In the middle there was a part of hard material, a bit of hard plastic with a light behind it. In terms of materials and color, the team designed one colour for the plastic enclosure and one colour for the rubber buttons. Also, the team agreed that the company logo, together with the standard color could be the company's identity. Last but not least, the current device did not include the docking station but the Marketing expressed his interest towards it and the team decided to reconsider it in the following parts of the meeting.


The Mental Health Measure's target had increased significantly among the UK. The programme well met the demand with more contacts, more staff, and shorter access times, but it still did not completely sustain at that stage. As for intervention resources, there had been good attempts to help. As for the stakeholder workshop, it was successful support on early help and enhanced support. Finally, as for the legacy arrangements, CAMHS element would move to CAMHS network, part of the NHS mental health network.


The meeting was about the fiscal and social influence of Brexit, especially focusing on the Wales education system. The group was worrying that Brexit would cut down the support from the EU to the UK, thus putting the Wales Universities in great dilemma. Besides, the fact was that the less fiscal support from the EU, the less foreign students would apply for the Wales universities. The members talked about several possible solutions, for instance, adjusting the syllabus to better meet both the students' and the lecturers' needs and providing them with better career prospects. What also mattered was the immigration policy which would be alluring to the foreign students if being reconsidered carefully.


The participants discussed how meetings would be transcribed, what kind of information to include in their corpus as well as how to structure it, issues with storing data, and their model. They were particularly concerned with how IBM could assist with transcribing meetings and how they would manage large amounts of data if they include more information in their corpus, given that they were running low on storage. They decided that they could store the data on tapes for backup, and that they would wait and see how IBM transcribes their meetings. As for the modeling, PhD I reported several results and a few members of the team decided to further discuss progress in a smaller meeting later on.


Subsequent recognition experiments will look at large vocabulary speech from a far-field microphone (as performed in Switchboard evaluations).


The professor told the group that the current neural network had a sigmoid with a weighted sum as a low level detector. It trained using gradient descent. He suggested they delve into this further on Friday.


The team would talk about how to gather information about the contents, set the remote control system browse by channel or browse by contents and to reflect about it.


The group mentioned that the vulnerable children and adequate social support should be carried out through the outbreak of the pandemic to protect them from infection or other mental and physical problems. The situation seemed awkward. However, fortunately, the group found that there were still enough staff available to offer mental support to those children. In terms of the children in foster, they thought the key problem at present was to ensure their living environment in the foster homes.


The remote control would be priced at 25 Euros, produced at the cost of 12.5 Euros. Since the company has international market range, at least 2 million units would have to be sold to meet the company's profit goals of 50 million Euros.


Marketing suggested the second personal preference from the market trend was to consider technology innovation, including the speech function recognition and the link with mobile phones. The reasons were that the market was screaming for new technologies and users could use remote to do something else, like gaming, when parents were watching some boring program.


A made-in-Canada initiative had engaged companies across Canada and they had retooled and scaled up their operations for personal protective equipment. This assisted front-line health care workers.


Although there were two options: a light inside the remotes and glow in the dark material, the team finally agreed to choose the later one because it was much cheaper. Besides, it was believed that combined with speech recognition, it would be easy for people to locate their remote controls, thus enhancing the overall market sales.


The group discussed recognition results generated for 20 minutes of close-talking microphone data. Recognition performance was very good, indicating promising results for forced alignment procedures and the ability to analyze other important signal information, e.g. prosody and overlapping speech. It was decided that close-talking data should be downsampled and fed to the SRI recognizer to compare recognition performance, and that data from the far-field microphones should be tested on the recognizer as soon as possible. The group also discussed recording setup and equipment issues.


Project Manager introduced that the goal of this project was to develop a new remote control. It should be original, trendy, and also user friendly. The group would be going to follow the project method, which included three steps. First the functional design. The second's a conceptual design, and then the detailed design. During each step of each design, groupmates need to work individually on their specific tasks and will meet to discuss and take decisions about what they did and what they will do next.


Hon. Catherine McKenna restated the answer several times that under the Covid-19 situation, although the government was trying hard to cope with different issues while handling the projects at the same time, things took time to finish the process. Moreover, Hon. Catherine McKenna assured the committee that the government was taking every method of solving the problem. However, this answer was challenged by Mr. Luc Berthold who insisted the ministry had not given an exact number.


Their remote control could be purchased in a situation when users' old remote had broken, so a universal remote control could be a must. Project Manager put forward this idea but did not know if there would be any chance to accomplish it easily, and Industrial Designer it would be possible but still needed some research.


Training requirements for all professionals in education settings were clear. The bible in terms of education professionals included 'keeping learners safe'. Therefore, the awareness needed to be clear for educational professionals that the duty to report was there. When they feel the significant harm happened, they should report this and it would go to the childcare assessment team. And schools were fundamental in the support for the families, since they had the relationships with the families.


The whole meeting was the initial meeting of a new remote control project. Firstly, Project Manager introduced the scope and agenda of the project, and the team got acquainted with each other and technical devices. Then Project Manager made clear that remote control would be priced at 25 Euros and a production cost of 12.5 Euros, in order to achieve a profit aim of 50 million Euros. After an accident, Marketing suggested that remote control should be made multipurpose and the consensus was reached on this point. Finally, the group brainstormed some other functions for the remote control despite a potential increase in production cost.


Marketing suggested that the remote control could only have one button and connect with Windows media center under the TV. The remote control could thus operate different devices at the same time. However, Industrial Designer pointed out that it would not be feasible to have only one button, for the remote control would need several other buttons for a video player, such as the play, the fast forward, and the stop button.


This meeting mainly talked about the Abolition of Defence of Reasonable Punishment Bill. Julie Morgan, Deputy Minister for Health and Social Services, and Karen Cornish, deputy director of the Children and Families Division, took charge of answering the relevant questions. To start with, the meeting first discussed the motivation of such legislation and the impact on social service and other agencies. Support for parents and teachers were then discussed, involving their demands and means to address. To continue, the meeting turned to the criminal perspective, discussing the out-of-court disposals, malicious reporting, and non-conviction information. The next step was to talk about costings, followed by the topic of human rights and eventually the awareness raising.


Project Manager proposed the design of a flip telephone which could help solve this problem. When the controller is flipped open, users got all the buttons ; while basic buttons are on the cover. The team reached an agreement on it.


Industrial Designers believed that in the design of remote control, fashion should have individuality and combine with function to achieve a perfect fit between fashion and electronics. Beyond that, it should be original in order to be unique.


PhD C explained that there was no room left for silence detection because of the server side delay. They were working out a compromise between the handset delay and the server delay, but the delay was too large at the moment.


It was first suggested by User Interface that a charging base would not go well with a small remote. The team agreed on this, and Project Manager reminded them the remote was not going to be a huge one. User Interface worried that a small remote without a base could be more easily lost, but Marketing reassured the team that this wouldn't be a problem if the remote had a locating device. Each team member then gave his/her opinion on the issue, all preferring a smaller remote without a base.


The industrial designer recommended batteries instead of solar cells because it would be problematic if solar cells didn't have enough energy. Titanium was proposed rather than rubber as the latter would make it difficult to do the moulding of buttons. Besides, the industrial designer wanted a simple push button because it only needed a simple chip and was less expensive than LCD.


As to cater to the fashion trend, the group decided to put the remote control in a fruity shape and a bright lovely color. Then in order to make their product both good-looking and comfortable to hold, they reached the agreement that the front side of the remote control would be made of plastic while the back would be made of titanium. The group also spent some time on the internal design of the product, for example, the chip would be made of silicon and electrical cable would be just the same as other counterparts.


User Interface believed that most people bought a new remote control just because they lost their old one and needed another one that could work with their TV. What they wanted was something ergonomic, durable, and good-looking. Actually, few people would use every function of the controller, so they should just keep the product simple instead of adding cost for advanced features.


The Prime Minister was adamant that fraud was unacceptable and reiterated that fraudsters would have to return the money. Nonetheless, the government's priority remained the speedy disbursement of funds to those that were in need.


The team got an improvement on the SRI system for TI- digits and Meeting Recorder digits but near mic performance worsened. The team explored the reasons for this difference. The professor suggested getting rid of low energy sections. The team also discussed how more nuanced normalization approaches could improve task performance.


No, Kirsty Williams still showed confidence in the value of the baccalaureate. Despite the committee members' provision of contradictory evidence, he emphasized the importance of the communication with universities. Kirsty Williams believed that the baccalaureate was a beneficial endeavour for students to undertake before their entrance to the universities, rather than a detriment.


The Prime Minister disagreed with Mr. Paul-Hus. He expressed that he had a mandate from the last election campaign to ban military-style assault weapons, and expressed disappointment about Conservatives' not wanting to do the same. He also claimed that speedy releases of inmates were governed by strict rules and were important to ensure that correctional services were protected from the virus.


When it came to processing evaluation, though Industrial Designer appeared to think highly of Project Manager's arrangements, Marketing clearly voiced his dissent. as he explained, it is obvious that financial issues were touched on too late, making it imperative to further adjust to the final design during budget control. Project Manager himself admitted that there existed a lack of information about prices, which in fact led to a number of unrealistic dialogues about costly functions like recognition.


While discussing the button layout, the group found that some of the elements could not be removable on the remote control, so the Industrial Designer proposed to make those elements with titanium and other things with plastic. However, the Marketing did not agree with this because he thought the plastic would not make the remote control look strong or be satisfactory to be held in hand.


Marketing proposed to make a stylish remote control. User Interface preferred a remote control that was comfortable to hold. In order to make buttons easy to find, User Interface pointed out that they could be made concave. Project Manager agreed and supposed that the buttons could be made illuminated so that people could see them in dark rooms.


On the basis of literature study and requirements analysis carried out by Marketing, specific criteria were as follows: design innovation, learnability, functionality, utility, cost, target customer, recognizability, etc. After the group brought forward a score for each in sequence, the total score was calculated as 84%, which was acknowledged as a nice score.


Grad F was responsible for bringing up the topic. Apparently, no one had replied to the emails allowing people to bleep things out so far. According to Grad F, as long as the email was sent out, the team was covered. Grad F thought this had been settled when the project started and did not need to be revisited.


Meilyr Rowlands introduced that Estyn had always been very strongly focused on improving the performance of more able pupils. More inspections were added to this certain group of students, especially at the relative performance of different groups and different performances of boys and girls. Currently the main strategy was always to identify where there were weaknesses to ensure the overall process of a typical school day.


Industrial Designer pointed out that too many buttons would get the remote controls too big and clunky. However, a really small and slim one was very likely to be lost. The User Interface then proposed a PDA or hand-held kind of remote controls. Unfortunately, it was not friendly to the unit price.


User Interface thought that remote control was easy to lose and complex to use and then suggested new remote control can be integrated. Industrial Designer thought the remote control had too many buttons and a bad signal. Marketing thought different devices had different remote controls. Project Manager thought remote control was all black and boring, then he suggested making remote control fun.


D wanted to know if the videos for the navigation system would be recorded from a first person perspective. D was also trying to understand how ambitious the system was. D learned that the goal was to understand how people reacted and talked in such a scenario. D provided some information about potential candidates for the human operator and wizard roles as well.


Project Manager confirmed the feasibility of Marketing's idea of the multipurpose remote control, and later he also brought up infra-red as an effective medium, over which cost-related doubt was expressed by himself, though.


The whole meeting was about a detailed prototype of the remote control. As before, this meeting also began with personal presentations. The Industrial Design focused on the components of the remote control, including the energy source, the buttons and the materials, while the User Interface suggested to use voice recognition technique and add secured or hidden programming onto the touch screen. Then the problem came that if they would like to make it so complex, they would go beyond the budget and have to raise the cost. Thus they decided to simplify some functions and buttons. Before the meeting ended, they also discussed the shape of the remote control.


The meeting between the Children, Young People and Education Committee and the Welsh Government was considered as an evidence session to the continuation of the inquiry into targeted funding to improve educational outcomes. The meeting started by discussing thoroughly about the use of pupil development grant funding in different sectors and the meeting believed that PDG would largely cover each aspect of students' rights and support the school services at the same time. Later, the meeting also agreed about the PDG's contribution to special kids and more able and talented streams. The meeting also talked about changes in key positions to ensure smooth adoption of the new curriculum. In the end, several issues regarding different phases of education and connection between different sectors were brought up and currently, they would work out the final stage.


The group mentioned that Wales government had promised a multi-annual commitment that it would help the Wales universities to get through the transition period and operate well with enough funding. However, some of the members thought that they could not always rely on the government and should have a budget plan for themselves. For fear that they might only receive the governmental funding for those apprentices, the group agreed to keep the apprenticeship firmly, even if some areas like England had abandoned it.


The most awareness around PDG is around free school meals, and there is less awareness around the availability of PDG to support looked-after children. In the nature of the cohort, there are more children subject to free school meals than are subject to being looked after. The thinking behind that at the time was around a greater strategic deployment of that resource and to try and drive a greater impact than how it was being used previously, so the looked-after PDG is held at a regional level.


The meeting was mainly about the exchange of the preliminary ideas about a new TV remote control project. They first got used to the whiteboard and drew some animals with it. Project manager wanted to sell this remote control for 25 Euro and expected profit will be around fifty million Euro. Afterwards the team raised different opinions about function and fashion features of the new remote controls . In particular, they emphasized the fashion of the remote control should be combined with the function, and the design of the battery should be original and not far away from the conventional design.


In general, the team only collected the flaws of the existing remotes. According to the User Interface, the existing remotes were difficult to use because of the inconsistent layout, too many buttons and shape problems. For each problem, the team tried to give the solution. For example, their new remotes would have a standard layout, limited buttons and organic shapes. It was believed that by solving all these problems, the new remotes would be easy for the customers to use.


Postdoc C suggested a possible hypothesis that energy is increased as more people are speaking. New forms were discussed, as these will include more details that may have to be completed by analysts through interviews with participants. The Multitrans update by the graduate student seems promising, and has been sent for review.


Huw Irranca-Davies stated that Flying Start helped disadvantaged children to step up to the foundation year and then step through into mainstream education in later years. In the scheme, there were 10 hours of education provision for every family. However, Huw Irranca-Davies acknowledged that the majority of disadvantaged children don't line up in Flying Start areas.


The group had an evaluation on the prototype after a presentation on it. They gave high scores in turns of product creativity, easy to use, integration of fruits, appropriate behaviour, simplicity and fashion. They gave a medium score in turns or technological innovation, ease of learning and not easy to lose.


Solar energy was not so convenient for users when using remote control at night. because it would be hard for it to store up energy. In addition, Industrial Designer had questions about the cost of adding solar energy to the remote control.


Sian Gwenllian AM argued that there was evidence regarding the difficulties caused by HEFCW having a legal duty to quality-assure all the provisions in two further education colleges. This process was regarded as an anomaly or an unintended consequence of the Act. Sian Gwenllian AM wanted Kirsty Williams AM to explain the situation in that instance and further methods to assure governing qualities.


Marketing disapproved of this proposal because though teletext was becoming outdated as Project Manager said, more than eighty percent of the current televisions were still teletext and people were very comfortable with the idea of having and using teletext. Besides, Marketing couldn't understand why the advent of the Internet would eliminate the need for teletext. Even so, if they were to remove the teletext from the controller, they had to bring something very attractive to take the place of it.


The discussion in this meeting focused on detailed design. First of all, the prototype was presented, which was pretty much like what the group had agreed before, including the yellow colour, cover and buttons made by rubber, etc. However, what they had exceeded their expected budget. Therefore, they had discussions on which features were okay to be taken out. They finally agreed on removing speech recognition, and the special colour. Then they did an evaluation of their product, and overall they did well. To sum up this teamwork experience, the Project Manager emphasized the importance of the communications. At last, they had a discussion on the product name, and agreed on "triple R".


The professor polled the group on how many people would not be interested in meetings on recognition. He thought that they should at least try the smaller meetings and see what happens.


The worst systems were still reducing errors between a third to half of the time. Though, there was a system in Aurora that did not do very well and the Alcatel systems seemed to do better.


Mental spaces can be tackled with mechanisms that can also deal with context issues (time, space etc.): creating a base space and rules of interaction with other interconnected spaces. However, the complexity of these mechanisms has to be bound as well: it is necessary to define the range of constructions to be studied.


The marketing recommended bringing some elements of fruit and vegetables, bright colors, some eye-catching and bold design, and a spongy feel into the product. Inspired from cell phones, the marketing also proposed a changeable cover which could be customized by the user. Besides, the marketing disapproved of having LCD screens and speech recognition because he didn't think it would be worth extra expense and effort.


Grad E thought that the idea of doing mean log magnitude spectral subtraction was figuring out the effect of training time on the model performance. It seemed that longer times had diminishing returns after a certain point.


The project manager mentioned that they would love to incorporate the company`s logo and colour into the product design, but it did not necessarily need to be the same colour. Since there was not a plan about which specific colour and logo to use, the industrial designer initiated the colour yellow and it was adopted.


The switch for controlling was around the microphone, so the microphone could easily put up the speeches from anywhere. The microphone was in the side, so when users were browsing the LCD they would not be close to the microphone. Industrial Designer said that the place could be adjusted.


Industrial Designer proposed to choose a special time of year which is most important for the TV remote control sales to launch the product for user testing. Project Manager suggested the sports season which was right before the World Cup football and to work with motion pictures coming out on DVD that the users needed to have a special remote control to work with. The group intended to set up a campaign with picture companies.


The team decided that the remote control would beep if it got lost. Also, the remote control would be put on the fixed charger if users did not use it, so it would be hard to get lost.


Recent modifications to the Transcriber tool allow transcribers to listen to speech from different channels, as well as helping to preserve portions of overlapping speech, and enabling the creation of different output files for each channel for a cleaner and more segmentable transcript.


User Interface thought that changing channels is the basic function of the remote control, but can also be turned into a universal remote control. Based on the reality that the remote control is often lost in our life, he thought that they should add anti loss design into it. Marketing further proposed that tracking devices can be used, and Industrial Designer agreed that some beeps or vibrations can be added. Project Manager thought they needed to design a trendy, interesting and sturdy remote control.


The group discussed efforts to train and test the Aurora group's HTK-based recognition system on ICSI's digits corpus. Members also discussed efforts to produce forced alignments from a selection of Meeting Recorder data. Performance in both tasks was adversely affected by the manner of recording conditions implemented and difficulties attributing utterances to the appropriate speakers. While debugging efforts resulted in improved forced alignments, dealing with mixed channel speech and speaker overlap remains a key objective for future work. The group is additionally focused on a continued ability to feed different features into the recognizer and then train the system accordingly.


Marketing first brought up price concern, implying that voice recognition could significantly drive up cost and price. Also, Marketing argued that unlike the LCD screen, the elderly would not fancy speech recognition because it would not make the remote control more user-friendly. Project Manager applauded Marketing's opinion and agreed that the LCD screen should be given priority over voice recognition.


The group discussed the collection status for a set of connected digits recordings that are nearly complete and ready to be trained on a recognizer. Anticipated results were discussed in reference to results obtained for other digits corpora, i.e. Aurora and TI-digits.


Philip Blaker thought it needed to be determined. But he also believed that Welsh Government had a role in curriculum at that moment, so Welsh Government had responsibility for the curriculum and drew people together to look at the new model for the future.


PhD I thought that the team should re-evaluate recognition without cheating on the segmentation. PhD I explained to the team that they had so far been using a simplified version of the scoring and brought up that Thilo wanted to use recognizer alignments to train his speech detector. He was not sure how much hand labeling would be needed to generate data for the detector.


Industrial Designer thought the remote control would be cheap to develop because they didn't use any expensive components. But User Interface argued that it would cost a lot to find someone with good technology of programming and develop the innovative user interface.


Industrial Designer initially proposed to have rechargeable energy sources and then suggested a combination of both solar and conventional batteries. It means that if there's enough light, then it's using the light, but when it is dark, then the battery is used.


The remote control was quite fancy in the respect of appearance. The group picked the word elegant from aesthetic, trendy, elegant and stylish when User Interface suggested using a different word to describe the remote control. Still, they all agreed that fancy was more appropriate than elegant.


Project Manager initiated the first meeting topic on the new project agenda, including welcoming the groupmates, the project plan, the project method and tools. Next, Project Manager invited everyone to draw their favourite animal on the whiteboard. Then, Project Manager introduced the target selling price of twenty-five Euros for the remote control and a profit of fifty million Euros. The target market would be the international market.


Marketing thought it was easy with a microphone on the remote control so that it was easy to find. User Interface agreed and thought it was better to put the microphone in a corner. Industrial Designer thought no matter where the microphone was, it would not be visible. So where to place didn't matter. Project Manager thought the microphone should be in an important position to see because it was a special selling point of remote control.


The professor suggested that the model essentially improved performance after the first utterance as it had more data. There was a higher error probability for the first utterance. This issue could potentially be resolved using a second-pass system, in which the initial utterance was processed differently.


Marketing believed that the trend of fruits and vegetables that fashion watchers have detected in Milan and Paris is a good indication of what kind of style the remote should have. It could make for a fancy and technologically innovative device. Marketing thought that the pear would make a good shape because it's easy to hold and that the remote should be spongy.


The meeting began with the team catching up the professor, who had missed the previous meeting. Then, the team moved onto talking about echo cancelling techniques. They were trying to get the voice of other people from the primary person's microphone. Then, the team discussed how they could improve the performance on the Aurora task by playing around with the model. The team ended the meeting with various comments on different topics.


The whole meeting was about what the group should do for the remote control, from a good-looking appearance to a joyful user experience. At the beginning, the group had individual presentations about their previous research findings. Through those presentations, all of the four got a general idea about the target market, the functions and the layout. They talked about the functions carefully as well as the interface design of the remote control later on. Finally, under the leadership of the Project Manager, all the members got some assignments for their next detailed design.


He talks about something on the components design after having put up the specification properties. As for materials, he used to suggest using hard plastic in order to make the control hard and solid, but at this conference, he thinks that their target audience, young people, love soft colors and materials, like rubber. And he also suggests a shape of a double curved case. As for the buttons, he suggests simple push buttons, without difficult scroll things that makes the control more complex and expensive. And he suggests not using a speaker or a sensor or speech controlled device.


Julie Morgan said the team had done their best preparation to cover all eventualities, such as the awareness-raising campaign, a mapping exercise, and the arrangements of organizations. Later on, Morgan told something about an in-the-round discussion with the Cabinet, where some costings had been decided.


The product would have basic functions and if users wanted more they need to pay more. For example, if users wanted LCD and speech recognisers with the microphone, they would pay more, else they could just buy the simpler one.


The participants discussed the government's response to the coronavirus. Participants expressed concern over a variety of matters that ranged from welfare transfers to protecting small businesses. The Prime Minister was questioned on alleged fraud in the distribution of pandemic relief funds. The participants were also concerned about government handling of business loans during the pandemic and the lack of statistics around the pandemic. A lot of the meeting's attention was paid to seasonal industries, like tourism and fishing, which had been served a major blow by the pandemic. Some participants also expressed concern about the distribution of funds and resources to vulnerable populations, like students and the elderly. Aside from the pandemic, some participants were concerned about the impact of recent gun control legislation.


User Interface initially suggested that the remote control could also incorporate forward-looking features, like controlling personal video recorders. UI quickly jumped on board with focusing on regular features, however.


Marketing pointed out that customers generally expected the new remote control to be fancy and technologically innovative. The trendiest shape might be fruit and vegetable. Users hoped that the remote control could be spongy. Marketing suggested that the team could decide on a shape of fruit and rubber material.


Lynne Neagle pointed out that due to the outbreak of the pandemic, more people reported depression and committed suicide. To deal with the harsh problem, they might have to carry out a review over the accidental mortality through the period. At the same time, Vaughan Gething suggested that even if most public services were shut down, the mental care, especially the perinatal mental health service, could not be stopped, just in order to support the vulnerable people.


The group discussed the preparation of a data sample for IBM, the manual adjustment of time bins by transcribers, recognition results for a test set of digits data, and forced alignments. Participants also talked about Eurospeech 2001 submissions, and exchanged comments on the proceedings of the recently attended Human Language Technologies conference (HLT'01). Preliminary recognition results were presented for a subset of digits data. Efforts to deal with cross-talk and improve forced alignments for non-digits data were also discussed.


Users didn't like the look and feel of most remote controls currently on the market. And most users only used ten percent of buttons on the remote control. Channel selection button was the most commonly used button, followed by the volume button. Young users might prefer to have high technology features such as LCD display or speech recognition function on the remote control.


Marketing said that there is a lot of argument to make one button for one feature because research results show that users complain about how hard it is to learn a new one. This idea might be suitable for people working with computers all the time but the elderly with an arthritic hand might find it difficult. User Interface suggested that it should have as many buttons as possible for controlling different functionalities and be in the shape of the letter T for more compatibility.


C began by asking some questions about the recording procedure and wanted to know what excising utterances from the transcript would look like. C asked several questions to that end but clarified that the source of inquiry was curiosity and nothing more. Additionally, C wanted A to explain to the meeting participants what the experiment was for.


The group gave a high score in terms of a fashion look, the ease of use, the locator, the scroll wheel, the LCD screen as well as the voice recognition technology. They also calculated the average overall score was six point five. The group agreed that the assessment was very good.


Marketing constructed a list of evaluation criteria based on the general user requirement. The group had an evaluation on the prototype, and they agreed it was a fancy, handy, and cool device that was easy to use. While User Interface disagreed with the criteria on whether people would change their remote control for a new one because he thought the banana didn't have a positive impression and it might have a market for young people.


Project Manager announced that the remote control would be priced at 25 Euros, produced at a maximum cost of 12.5 Euros to achieve a profit aim of 50 million euros. And Project Manager went on to emphasize that the target market would be international, covering different kinds of users, cultures, and trends. No dissent was raised by other team members.


Hefin David thought that the Wales government should be to blame for the fewest EU students applying for Wales universities this year, however, Kirsty Williams considered it was too early to jump to the conclusion. Not until November would they conduct the first census to get an exact number of the students enrolled. In addition, Kirsty Williams pointed out the fact that international students outside the EU make up a bigger proportion of students not from the UK who came to Wales institutions. There was no need to be so anxious about the number of the present applications.


After coming up with the idea of multi plates, the Industrial Designer asked to give the remote control a name and patent it. Within a brief discussion, they named it as Leopard Print out of the hope that it would also be helpful in cold winter days.


Project Manager began functional design meeting with reviewed last meeting and looked at new project requirements. The group did a presentation and made discussion about conceptual remote control design. They decided to use the LCD screen in the design as it was popular for the market and hard to damage. Because of the high price of LCD, the group put up a backup design with buttons instead of LCD as a solution. After group discussion, remote control would be designed with buttons shape and functions such as channels selection and speech recognition.


The professor noted that the results were better than he expected and that the MSG did nothing. He also noted that adding French and Spanish to the multilingual English model hurt the model.


The group mentioned that during the pandemic, countless individual businesses reported bankruptcy, which would do harm to social stability. Therefore, according to Mona Fortier, Canadian government had tried a lot to support them. However, not so many people were willing to accept the rent reduction, indicating that the policy might not be very effective. Another problem related to social safety was the handgun smuggling. Bill Blair, the Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness, in response to the firearms seizure issue, promised to implement a stronger gun control in the near future.


Marketing introduced watch trends in shapes, colours, material and functions from the past years. In Marketing's data, young people prefered fruity colours, round shapes and soft material. In contrast, elderly people liked dark colours, square shapes with round edges and hard material.


User Interface pointed out that if the remote was small, it would not go well with a base. The team then decided on a single smaller remote instead of a bigger one with a base, and a locating device would sufficiently prevent the remote from being lost. In terms of the battery, Industrial Designer suggested one small lithium battery instead of double A's or triple A's. An initial lithium battery could be sold with the remote, while subsequent replacements would be bought separately. With this suggestion in mind, the team decided to come back to it in the next meeting.


Grad H has been experimenting with using the close - talking mike to decipher who is speaking . The first attempt was thresholding and filtering , which is very sensitive to the choice of filter width and threshold . It does allow for effective segmenting when someone 's talking and when they are not .


Project Manager considered it necessary to focus on customers younger aged below forty because they have potential needs to be fulfilled. By contrast, Marketing believed that the project should target a large group rather than only people younger than forty.


The team had decided to replace the rubber with plastic due to the budget limit. When evaluating the material of the remote control, Marketing admitted that sponginess was what most users desired, which was the feel given by rubber. Project Manager agreed. However, Project Manager pointed out that a plastic remote control was no worse than other remote controls in the market, so it would not be a step-back at least.


When it comes to the governmental issues, some of the members, for example, Justin Trudeau and Jagmeet Singh had a heated debate over the way of the distribution of the fund. The root of their debate was the problem of systematic racism in the RCMP, and many other institutions at home. Therefore, a revolution might be needed in those institutions. In terms of the revolution, Jagmeet Singh pointed out that the governmental fund should be allocated to medical care instead of RCMP, for that during the outbreak of COVID-19, emergent needs had shown in the medical field.


The project manager wondered whether they could implement the design for twelve Euro and fifty cents. Then the industrial designer replied that the function of programming the keys was affordable while the feasibility of the ASR system was uncertain. Therefore, maybe they should make some compromise. Finally, the industrial designer and the user interface designer were required to provide two designs with the exact cost price at the next meeting so that they could see which one fit their budget better.


The meeting began with an update on the voice-unvoice detection. The professor suggested the solution might just be feeding the log magnitude of the spectrum into a simple neural net. The team then had a brief discussion about some confusing formula on the France Telecom proposal. Following this, the team talked about how to pick out the most important acoustic events. Then, Grad A introduced the team to phonological matchings that he was working on using Support Vector Machines. The goal was to map MFCC's to phonological features. The team concluded by discussing a potential bug which led to a significant difference between PLP and mel cepstrum and the FFT method that they were exploring.


Industrial Designer said that FPGA was a field programmable gateway array. The Bluetooth chip was just responsible to make the communication between the two devices, but the FPGA was different. The FPGA would produce the data to send and it was for software.


The practice was guided by the Nation Institute for Health and Care, enabling referrals to match the right practitioner and the right service. It is expected to be more flexible and careful to use the resource. Overall, the community had gradually become standard, doing a collective reflection on service improvement and being clear about mutual learning, but the environment operated still waited to be improved.


The transcribers should only code audible breaths within a grouping of words, and not outside regions of continuous speech. It was further determined that audible breaths are an important facet of recorded speech, and that removing them from the corpus would be contrary to the aims of the project. Speaker mn005 will prepare his results for detecting speaker overlap and present them in the next meeting.


Transcribers will be given channelized data that has been segmented for speech/non-speech boundaries to determine whether such pre-processing facilitates the transcription process.


There were many reasons that had led to the increasing numbers of children becoming looked after across England and Wales, and it was hard to identify a single reason. Increased austerity was a part of this. In addition, an increased awareness of adverse childhood experiences and the emphasis of the impact on children of domestic abuse also affected this. It was also because of our understanding of what happened to children in those households. Besides, changes in our practice with colleagues in the judiciary, changes in the police service, and changes in the preventative services were other elements.


The group discussed the current state of their work, which was coming close to a conclusion. They were putting together their final model, including the various techniques they had explored. Their performance on the Aurora tasks was second and very close to those in first place. The professor thought that further tweaking and incorporation of a neural network would improve their scores. The team discussed which method to use for noise suppression, which had not been decided yet. They also delved into a more detailed discussion of the VAD and latency. Their method for noise estimation would add a notable delay to the model. Finally, the team delved further into how to finish up the model.


Group mates all should have received an email introducing what was this project about and there would be three different stages to the design. The project was about designing a new remote control, which was supposed to be original, trendy, and user friendly.


In this meeting, the team was very satisfied with the three prototypes presented. However, they had to take the budget limits into consideration. Their current cost per remote control was fourteen point six Euros, while the budget required them to cut two more Euros. Therefore, a series of changes were done in order to meet the criteria, such as making the remotes flattened. In the end, the team was asked to make an evaluation about the project. All of them were very satisfied with the final product.


User Interface agreed with Marketing's proposal of more ergonomic design and mentioned that a strange position of using computers might well end in tendonitis and hurt one's wrist.


The setting price of each remote control that Project Manager proposed was twenty-five, but Marketing had doubts about the profits. Marketing wasn't sure that if the mark-up of fifty percent is normal for a product, and preferred sixty percent.


F wanted to ensure that prosodic features could be dealt with at the level of small linguistic units. F proposed that they be attached to the word or segment level with the option of extracting smaller units. This would allow the team to keep what they have without starting over.


They all agreed that speech recognition could be taken out, because LCD had more support on the customer side, and it did not give an extra function compared to other normal remote controls. As for the special colour, they had some disagreements initially, since User Interface thought it could not reflect the current trend anymore if it was taken out. However, after evaluating dropping other features such as rubber or curve, they agreed that both of them brought more advantages than the special colour. Besides, the colour could be made up by using special covers.


The group aims to collect over 100 hours of Meeting Recorder data in total. Speaker consent forms are being revised. It was suggested that subjects should sign a new consent form after 10 recording sessions.


The team knew that the CMU folks had collected a lot of data, but they were not sure if it was publicly available. It seemed that there was politics involved. The team thought that they could let Mark see if CMU would let them use the data.


This meeting was about technical design. Firstly, the group had three presentations on remote components, user interface and market trends. They presented remote control features including the circuit board, the chip, the kinetic energy, the interface mechanism of operation, the scroll wheel to be added as well as the LCD and spinning innovation. Then, the group had a discussion about the key remote concepts. They decided to have a LCD display with a spinning wheel. They would not have hand dynamos, instead, they would have a wind dynamo. And they would keep the kinetic energy as an option and look at more spongy material preferences with rubber or plastic.


This meeting was a conceptual design meeting. In this meeting, the group mainly discussed the component, energy source, buttons, colours and styles of the remote control. They decided to use the kinetic as the energy source because of its convenience, light weight, fancy design and the good selling point of the environment, but they still needed more cost research. They also reached a final consensus to apply a hard plastic inner shell with a spongy plastic for the component, and push buttons for the type of interface due to their common features of convenience and user-friendliness.


Marketing believed that fancy features like IP would not be used by most people. The overwhelming majority of users would want convenient channel browsing and volume adjustment features. Those should remain the main focus instead of more novel features.


According to the Industrial Design, there might be only a few choices for the energy source and materials from the current manufacturer, so he suggested that they had better look for another manufacturer for more alternatives. The Marketing put forward to design a user-friendly interface while the User Interface came up with the idea of including the voice recognition system into the remote control in order to provide better communication with the users. Apart from that, spinning wheels on the iPod and secured programming were also suggested.


According to Kirsty, school was going to need a little bit of extra support, so it was not always just a crisis that needed extra support. There were just general things that happen in the life of a school that could lead to it. However, it was also right that they had a particular challenge in the secondary sector. That's why they had introduced the new pilot to address those schools. If they carried on doing the same thing, they would keep getting the same results, which was not satisfying enough.


The group members thought that the first layer would be spongy. It might be magnetic and would be like a plastic cover covering some buttons or USB interface. Users could open this cover like peeling a banana.


The role of User Interface is to design a television remote control. Marketing is in charge of figuring out how to sell them. The responsibilities of Industrial Designer are dealing with technical and functional designs and specifications of User Interface.


The final english SmartKom demo will be presented to the whole institute once the system is de-bugged and stabilised.


The group hoped that it can be applied to children, in particular to ensure their safety during use. Besides, it should be colourful and beautiful to attract the attention of children. The price also should be reasonable and affordable, not too expensive, but the profit can be guaranteed. In terms of function design, unnecessary functions and switches should be removed to enhance their applicability.


Industrial Designer asked whether the remote control would be a multimedia product. Marketing also hoped to know the answer, for the team would have to decide what functions to incorporate in the remote control. Project Manager suggested that the team should first have a basic starting point and extend to other functions in the following meetings.


The User Interface affirmed their previous efforts at first, but he thought that was not enough, so he went on to propose that they might consider buying another face plate and include a touch screen. In terms of the buttons on the screen, the User Interface found the existing problem that some of the buttons would be stuck in the screen and not so easy to be found and touched, so he suggested making those essential buttons in conspicuous colours like red.


When the group found out that they came across a fairly tight budget, they cut the number of batteries from 2 to 1 and chose plastic as the cheapest case material supplement. But they still kept the advanced chip, LCD screen, and docking station, all of which they considered to be the strength of the product. After that, they touched on the button issue and realized that that was where the biggest cost driver hid. As a hurry solution, they quickly discarded the help and the mute button, replaced buttons for the program with a scroll-wheel, and removed a volume button and a channel button to reduce cost.


The industrial designer thought the automatic power control would be a bit problematic because there were different criteria for different people. Then the marketing proposed that they should design a personalized product so that the users could have their own settings. The proposal was accepted by the industrial designer but later the idea of automatic power control was still abandoned because of price issues.


Hefin David AM questioned about the right balance between institutions with the strongest track records that were more highly regulated and those riskier private alternative providers. Kirsty Williams AM argued that more attention should be paid to focus on the inherent quality of those charitable status which was regarded as a key reference point in the operation. Although there were some concerns of some private providers, particularly in England, they should not be treated the same. In this case, the government would regulate them on a course-by-course basis. Moreover, quality provision should be included and alternative providers would be given more attention.


This is the second meeting of the design group. Project Manager went through the notes of the last meeting and informed the team of the management's requirements. They expected the remote control to cover television only and asked the team to incorporate the company logo and colours. As the team is looking at extreme simplicity, the buttons should be reduced to the absolute minimum. Voice recognition can also be added to reach this point. In addition, the remote control can be powered by a rechargeable or permanent battery.


User Interface found this feature great, but he noticed that the ambient sound coming from television would confuse the speech recognition and might accidentally trigger the remote control. User Interface pointed out that Industrial Designer had to make sure the speech recognizer would be good enough to filter out the television speech and recognize only the user's voice. He believed that this feature, once successfully achieved, would make the product popular on the market.


John Griffiths AM suggested that one way was through community-focused schools that were very much accessible to the community, linked well with outside organisations, having an extended school-day offer. Meilyr Rowlands agreed that it was a good method and the government was delighted to support the remaining schools which still participate in the process in every way. It was concluded that a new mechanism should be added to avoid misunderstanding the role of community-focused schools.


Darren Millar AM suggested that it had been one of the tough problems that was identified in the past and it was hard to travel the good practice to local authorities, regional consortia, and the Welsh Government efficiently in a short period. Meilyr Rowlands agreed that the problem was highly associated with the foundation phase and training should be included in both a pupil-led learning experience and a teacher-led learning experience, though they shared differences with each other.


According to the Project Manager, the group had gone far beyond the budget, so they had to cut down something on the current conceptual remote design. The first idea they came up with was to reduce the number of the buttons. The Industrial Design proposed to use an integrating button to replace the scattered ones, but inevitably, this also had some defects. The User Interface focused on the material and he put forward to choose a cheaper material like wood or plastics. Paying attention to the energy consumption, the Marketing suggested using a hand dynamo to save the cost of batteries.


The User Interface suggested to use plastics as the material in order to reduce the cost. However, the Project Manager would like to use wood for fear that the color would not be bright enough. Fortunately, according to the User Interface, there were actually hard plastics with attractive color, that was also why he insisted on the plastics as the material.


It was suggested that farmers and relative products were largely influenced by Covid-19. Hon. Marie-Claude Bibeau introduced that the government had already confirmed various supports for the agricultural sector. This week, the government focused on beef and pork producers and processors, as well as sectors with product surpluses that could be redirected to food banks. At the same time, industry and suppliers had enthusiastically answered the call to equip Canada with products and goods during the crisis.


User Interface suggested a simple interface with a few scroll wheels on it, but User Interface also appreciated the idea of chunky plastic remote control with big buttons, which was simple, easy to use and cost effective.


User Interface tried to envisioned the remote control in well molded and hard smooth plastic. User Interface also suggested another possibility, which was a more spongy rubber cover with spongy buttons. Which option to choose would depend on cost restraints.


The meeting began with a discussion on the TORRENT project completion being pushed for two years. Grad F then introduced intermediate categorization, which was his topic for his qualification exams. The team then discussed mean subtraction from SRI. Using it had led to an improvement in Meeting Recorder digits though near mic performance worsened. The professor points to pre-echoes as the culprit. The team continued to study differences between SRI and Aurora. The team thought it would be interesting to do the Aurora tests with the SRI system instead of the HTK. The team was also exploring the Wiener filter and VTS. The professor did not seem too excited about the VTS.


In their first meeting, the team members got familiar with each other through some icebreaker games. Project Manager started to introduce the new remote control project with the team's financial goal. The unit price was determined to be 25 Euros. The production of each remote control would cost 12.5 Euros. The team would have to make sales amounting to 50 million Euros. Project Manager continued to assign individual tasks to the team members. Industrial Designer had worked out a rough plan for the first phase and would produce a working design. User Interface was supposed to specify the technical functions. Marketing would be responsible for market research. Users mainly expect the remote control to be user-friendly and handy. The team decided to focus on the basic functions at the first stage but make sure the extendibility of the functions as well.


Several technical matters are being resolved: a conversion program is being written for data to be translated between XML and the Java Embedded-Bayes notation; the language generation templates are now available for the english version of the SmartKom system; SmartKom now works on three different machines at ICSI. On the other hand, future collaboration on belief-nets has already been agreed with another research group. The construction analysis and formalism are also progressing. Several issues that have been dealt with were mentioned during the meeting: indefinite pronouns and wh-questions, noun-phrase structure, etc. This analysis is being done with the help of a linguist, who often provides different perspectives to methods and terminology.


When discussing the evaluations on the legitimacy of the children's rights, protection and demands, Julie Morgan mentioned that they had carried out an online survey to look into the children's thoughts and demands over the pandemic.The survey involved what did the children do through the lockdown, what they thought about the measures that Welsh government and their schools had taken, and whether they were looking for the reschooling. With those questions, the group was meant to have a more overall idea of the children's rights and demands in order to care for them better during this period.


PhD C thought that it would be worthwhile to test on a single KLT. The professor agreed that since it would be pretty low-maintenance, the team should do that, but only if they can fit it in.


Marketing desired to design self-intuitive buttons for game players. Industrial Designer expressed a preference for a game control keypad rather than big separate buttons. Project Manager accepted the latter suggestion, for keypads on consoles were common and user-friendly nowadays, so it would also be feasible to incorporate one on the remote control. Besides, Project Manager pointed out that a keypad would allow easier navigation and be used as a joystick.


Justin Trudeau was confident about the economic recovery after the pandemic, however, Cathy McLeod and Mona Fortier and some other members did not agree with him for that they thought Canada was undergoing an extreme uncertain time during which no one could foresee a bright future unless the prime minister kept the revenue report public. Furthermore, statistics showed that actually Canada had suffered decline in revenue in both the first and second season this year, and the forestry industry even reported depression before the outbreak. Various evidence showed a great challenge to the Canadian economy.


The meeting of the standing committee took place to discuss matters pertinent to the Coronavirus pandemic. The main issue at stake was to ensure that the government was doing everything in its power to assist vulnerable Canadians during the pandemic, as well as to help reopen the economy. While many discussions focused on temporary assistance that the government could provide during the pandemic, like a $25 weekly bump in old-age security, some discussions talked about the intersection of these programs with general social welfare initiatives, like reducing homelessness and poverty. Canada's agricultural and fishing economy was highlighted as one of the industries in the greatest need for stimulus. Conservative ministers tried to bring attention to the government's recent gun control laws.


The group briefly talked about their agreements of the past meetings. They were all concerned with the interchangeable user interfaces and they agreed to make it more natural-looking and multi-faces. The Industrial Design then mentioned the issue of the material. They decided to use a rubber coat in case the remote control would be damaged when being dropped occasionally. After most details were checked, the Project Manager turned to the budget problem. It is quite essential for them to be both environmentally friendly and economic.


The group selected the regular-style chip without the LCD display. It only had simple push buttons except for a more advanced one for the interior lighting system.


First, Project Manager announced that her favourite animal at the time was an elk. User Interface immediately joked that it looked vicious, what with the big antlers. Industrial Designer then asked whether everyone had elk where they came from. The team then complimented Project Manager's drawing for the elk. Project Manager consequently gave her reasons for choosing the elk as her favourite, saying it was a large beautiful majestic creature that could overcome harsh terrain and defend itself. She considered that even though elks would appear awkward, they were actually very gorgeous animals.


The participants learned that the storage disks had eventually arrived. They were waiting on the disks to be installed. Grad E volunteered storage space on their own computer for the meantime. The meetings were around 1.5 gigs uncompressed and .5 gigs compressed. So, the group needed substantial space. The professor encouraged the team members to talk to Dave, the person responsible for managing the organization's storage systems, and figure things out.