First, the economic impact of Brexit is shown in a number of ways, like the extent to which the HE sector in Wales is exposed to sources of income that are located from the EU. We can also see some changes in students' applications and in increasing difficulties of the EU collaborative research activities. In terms of the financial impact, if it is accepted that the UK is a net contributor to the EU then, presumably, some of Wales' money will go straight into politics, and the benefits are unknown, which will become a matter of politics. In terms of recruitment, both European Union-domiciled applicants to Wales and non-EU international students decreased, who applied to Welsh institutions. While the number for both groups of students who apply to English universities increased.


The professor was the one to raise the issue and suggested that a knowledge engineering trick could be used to narrow down inputs. He thought that perhaps adding deterministic rules to properties that have actions would be helpful and the property types could be retrieved from the ontology.


When Sian Gwenllian questioned whether they had got a monitoring system over the availability of the staff at the mental health organizations, Tracey Breheny rebutted that they kept following up their healthy condition to ensure that they have enough staff to offer the mental health care for the children.


The meeting was mainly about the Welsh baccalaureate. The committee began with the value of the baccalaureate. There have been young people who entered universities with a baccalaureate qualification. The goal of the committee was to further refine the qualification to balance it with other qualifications that had been recognized by universities and school leaders such as A-Levels. The grading system has been admitted to be rigorous. Students were expected to be evaluated on their individual ability. Although universities showed ambivalent attitudes towards the baccalaureate, its advantage could not be denied. The committee aimed to aid financially in the Welsh schools in organizing the baccalaureate and offering its corresponding courses of high quality.


To maximize the satisfaction of the users, the first thing should be confirmed is that the power button should be put on the right top where it can be reached with a thumb easily. Then like all the remote controls, they should have up and down for the channels and left and right for the volume. Besides, the button for the screen brightness was also important. To make their remote control unique, the User Interface proposed to add their logo on it.


The main function of the remote would be sending messages to the TV. For the interface, it should have nine channel buttons, a next button, volume buttons, subtitle buttons and switches to control features, colour contrast, sharpness etc. Interface Designer said that looks would be very important for the remote so the remote should be child-friendly with few buttons and could be colourful with star-shaped or other shaped buttons. An oversized remote was presented but was challenged by the team. Speech recognition was a feature that Interface Designer wanted to include.


The Act was considered that the legislation itself was not strong enough by Sian Gwenllian AM and Kirsty Williams AM agreed that remit letters were a really important way in which national priorities could be preserved. Moreover, it was stressed that it was important to make the distinction between the scale of private providers, and what could be termed as 'unregulated providers' in the Welsh system. In this case, they should be designated on a case-by-case basis and always be able to protect the interests of the students. Besides, Kirsty Williams AM pointed out that the government had not identified an urgent reason to designate different types of courses as qualifying courses for the purposes of a fee limit, but in fact, the regulation for each type of them did differ from each other.


This section firstly pointed at the employment issues faced during the pandemic. Next, the topic turned to the emergency wage subsidy that was supporting over a 2.5million workers. The meeting grouped workers in different sectors and discussed them step by step. The listed groups included the students, foreign workers, health care workers, forestry workers, and workers in the oil and gas sector.


Hon. Lawrence MacAulay assured that everyone was welcome to enter the discussion to provide as appropriate compensation as possible. On the other side, it represented democracy.


Grad F explained that he was focusing on writing his proposal for his qualification exams, which was on the 25th of July. He had to write a paper and pass it around before that date.


User Interface thought there should be a function, instead of choosing the TV channel, users could choose TV channels or the contents of the programme. It was more powerful. Some of the websites already provide this service so this technology is also available.


The marketing expert thought there were three things making the product marketable - the features, the characteristics, and the corporation behind the product. The features included the scroll, the locator, durability, and dependability. The characteristics referred to reliability, comfort, ergonomics, and being environmentally sensitive. As for the business background, they were a new company wanting to make a name for themselves and aiming at supplying good products at a fair price. All these above made the product competitive and the marketing believed they should go after more of the exclusivity sense than the mass market sense.


The team wanted to understand how they could combine different linguistic features to make a more robust recognition model. They were running experiments to figure out what the good features were. The team also entertained the possibility of clustering them, which would add to the robustness.


The professor informed the team that noise was affecting their recordings but Dan had assured him that the quantization effect was not significant. He thought that the team should update their web page to better reflect their understanding of the topic.


Project Manager firstly gave some main points of the design of remote control. The Internet would be the main focus and the proposal of multi-purpose remote control was clearly rejected. Besides, the customer group expanded to those younger than 40. Then group members respectively gave presentations about the conception of the functions of remote control. Based on a questionnaire, Marketing concluded that the remote control should be simple, the buttons bigger and for minor functions. Industrial Designer rejected the idea of using Bluetooth and indicated that infrared would be better and within the budget. Industrial Designer believed that remote control should be simple and suggested sticking to basic things of remote control. User Interface also agreed to keep it simple and put forward the idea of using a touch screen and being user-friendly. Finally, Project Manager led the team to further discuss detailed questions like menus, parental control, update service.


Marketing tried to re-envision the remote control about the menu functionality, the current technology and the interaction with other tools based on the market research. Marketing suggested discarding unnecessary buttons and made a fancier remote control. They could also use the technology of speech recognition to help build the interaction.


Firstly, User Interface suggested trendy and one-color cases, good icons on the big buttons since they would be recognizable and excite the young people. Secondly, Industrial Designer introduced that young people favored soft materials and primary colors, but trendy design on the button and the use of LCD display would increase cost since the budget had always been a big problem. Moreover, the team would aim at the younger market based on the decision of the former meeting and agreed that to make the device more profitable they should sell the product for longer than one year. The team also discussed the button function of the remote control but they had not come to an agreement. Lastly, Project Manager decided on a normal battery and no kinetic to control the budget.


The team agreed that it was important to keep good backups. Their main concern was the time difference between getting more disks and recording new meetings. They did not want to rely on burning CD's at all because of potential loss of data. They also started discussing whether it would be a good idea to collect meeting notes from the participants as well, but that would entail installing new infrastructure.


Project Manager emphasized that the main point in this meeting was to keep the remote control as simple as possible, but more options and functions, like the menu and the parental control could be added. User Interface suggested making a remote control which had a functionality for all the TVs and users could enter the codes to set their TVs. Marketing proposed that people could go to the service center or the shop for the updates of the remote control.


The Spanish data was not in the desired HTK format and needed to be processed, which was turning into somewhat of a challenge. The team also realized that moving data was making their processes slower and they needed to rely on faster machines to complete their tasks. The team discussed various linguistic features and computational methods for linguistic analysis that they could incorporate.


The remote control might be made into fruit or vegetable types. So the team might have to change some components, but it would not cost much. The PCB would be the same for all, but only the exterior shape was different for all. They could propose the customers with skins. The team would look into the material.


Marketing presented the results of interviews conducted with remote control users. Eighty percent of users indicated that they would be willing to pay more for a remote that looked fancier. Fifty percent of users indicated that they generally only use about ten percent of the buttons on their remote controls. User Interface then presented the difficulties of a universal remote and also mentioned that few buttons are needed frequently by users.


The team made some decisions on the remote control design for the present stage. The keypad was given up, for a menu display could better classify channels into subgroups. Standard components such as the conventional battery were the final choices for the remote control. The team would adopt a double-curved design and rubber material. A corporate logo would be incorporated. There would be a special beeping sound for the location function. The new remote control could be programmed on the LCD screen as well as using software on the computer. In the next meeting, Industrial Designer and User Interface would present a prototype of the remote control. The team would also make a product evaluation.


He believed literacy still needed to be the top priority, because it was something that underpinned the rest of education. Yet work was still needed to be done to continue prioritizing it.


User Interface talked about the method of including the buttons and the implementation of LCD screens. And he mentioned there are new developments in speech recognition systems as they are already being used on uh coffee machines; and since they're cheap, so he thinks they could use them now, as a small gimmick. As for mic and speaker, User Interface thinks that they are the same little hole things.


The meeting began with an update on the HTK backend. The team was testing different numbers for Gaussian mixtures. The team then discussed how performance on the Aurora tasks was measured. The final score for Aurora was a weighted average, but it seemed that there was no practical implementation against which tasks were being measured. The VAD of the team's existing system for Aurora was better. The team was also working on feature classification, mainly to do voice-unvoice detection. The meeting concluded with a few more updates on the Aurora project.


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Industrial Designer agreed that the remote control should be fashionable, technologically innovative and suitable for customers and proposed that fewer buttons could make the handle more ergonomically correct.


Marketing considered fancy design to be insignificant, as he believed that unlike the younger generation, people of 40 plus were not that particular about appearance and would care more about its functionality instead. Marketing's opinion was subsequently agreed by other team members.


Marketing, User Interface and Industrial Designer thought Project Manager did a good job. Project Manager believed that the teamwork was great and this opinion was echoed by the other three team members. Whiteboard was used during the meeting but digital pens were not and the team agreed that they could have used the whiteboard a bit more. The team mostly used the slide because it was better positioned.


A curriculum reform was to carry out throughout Wales. The group discussed with Estyn about the obstacles and difficulties faced by secondary schools when bringing the reform into practice, such as teacher shortage and lack of funds, and how Estyn tackled them. Then the council questioned Estyn over their inspection over local authorities' educational services including regional consortia and independent schools. In addition, the group also talked about specific skill development of literacy and numeracy, concluding that literacy should be the top priority of the progress. They also dug into concerns regarding students' economic background and the schools' ability to care for students' mental well-being.


The meeting with the Welsh Government is mainly about the impact of the coronavirus epidemic on education in Wales. To start with, Kirsty Williams AM indicated that still there was not an exact date schools might reopen. Students could only return to school in the safe environment, which required the lead from scientific and medical advisers. Meanwhile, Kirsty Williams AM emphasized that the government would not relax any of the restrictions with regard to education and new measuring methods would be applied concerning performance rate, etc. It was suggested that there was an increase in the number of attendances to the open hubs and the ability to test, to trace and to quarantine would be critical to the next phase. Moreover, the meeting agreed that schools should remain in contact with children in need and continue to identify vulnerable children with emotional and mental health difficulties. Also, methods to assure sustainable higher education would be applied and vocational qualification students would fear none. Last but not least, although the education cost for students receiving support regime would decrease, there would be no change on the allowance.


The main topics of the agenda were a paper submitted to Eurospeech and the organising of the recording transcriptions to be done by IBM. The results presented in the former show a significant percentage of overlapping speech even without counting in backchanneling. Regarding the transcriptions to be carried out by IBM, the discussion mainly concerned the format of the recordings that should be sent to them. Suggestions included sending only the channels with the dominant speakers for transcription, but it was finally agreed on sending the original files with minimal modifications, as there will be extensive in-house post-processing.


Marketing thought the prototype was not much technologically innovative because they didn't have LCD screens and a fancy chip. While Project Manager thought the kinetic battery was a good innovation. The group supplemented that people might notice this feature after a year if they hadn't changed the battery. So the group agreed to give an average of four out of seven.


To start with, the team agreed that the remote control was indeed innovative with the LCD display incorporated and the way it could be used both-handed with an alarming feature. Also, it aimed at the recent fashion trend since it looked like a banana with a special yellow colour. Although some of its features were identical to an iPod, the team believed that it was a creative design for remote control.


Lighting adaptive was a little bit complex. It was possible but not in this project.


Marketing wanted the product to be exclusive, beautiful, attractive, and environmentally sensitive. It should be special in some way so that it could sell on its own. Marketing also wanted to sell their corporate identity along with the product. However, the fact was that they could not use some cutting-edge technology due to the limitation of cost, so they had to aim at the exterior design.


The team discussed SRI experiments, multi-band approaches, latency, VAD, and noise addition. The mean subtraction approach for SRI that relied on a twelve second interval resulted in a zero point three percent improvement over the six second model, not necessarily significant. The team thought that training the model on different speeds of speech would be helpful to add to this progress. Grad A introduced the team to her formal proposal for the qualifier exam. The work focused on intermediate classifiers and multi-band graphical models for speech recognition. The team then discussed noise removal as well The model PhD B was working on did not do well in non-stationary noise environments. In general, however, the model had improved. The VAD was labeling speech as silence segments, which could be attributed to alignment issues. The team thought that noise addition techniques might help the model.


The professor thought that they needed to work more and asked who had ideas on how they could pursue new directions. He himself wanted to try out playing with MSG and multi-band. He also thought that they should try learning more about different acoustic environments.


Conferees agreed that the remote control could be sold with optional plastic protection and water-proof box for customers to choose.


Hon. Chrystia Freeland stated that there had existed racism in Canada. Systemic racism had existed in all federal institutions, including the RCMP.


User Interface disagreed on adding support for DVD players to the remote control as the email stated that it should be a television remote control.


Features of the remote include signal-emitting LED, on-off switch, mute button, nine channel buttons, two buttons for increasing or decreasing volume, two buttons for scrolling up or down channels and menu button at the centre, which would control the colour, sharpness, brightness etc. Also, there would be an elongated shaped swapping button that was slightly flexible. If it was turned to the left, the TV would change to the previous channel that the user was watching and if to the right, the next channel. The remote has an inbuilt voice recognizer that would recognize the user's voice and act accordingly.


According to Kirsty Williams, it's probably the best that they've got at present, and will continue to have discussions with local government about whether there are different ways.  Officials are working all the time in conjunction with the department in England, to understand their thinking in this area so that we are in a position to make some decisions about what a notional eligibility for free school meals will look like going forward, but before I make any decisions, I want to assure everybody that there will be a full public consultation on that.


The remote should be compact with a friendly shape, like the kidney shape Project Manager proposed. It should also be made with different material and colour so as to be more trendy.


The Project Manager gave a brief review of the team's last meeting, then Industrial Designer, User Interface and Marketing gave their presentation each. Industrial Designer's presentation is about the components and system of the remote control. User Interface gave the presentation about the design of the remote. The team agreed that there should be 17 buttons on the front of the remote and two on the back. Marketing's presentation is about the research into the functional requirements that people want out of their remote control. The team agreed that they could add a clap-back function to the remote.


Dr David Blaney suggested that machinery of monitoring depended on having a body like HEFCW to connect different parts. Also as Hefin David AM pointed out that people always made the difference in different cultures and external opinions were a plus. Although opinions from student representation, staff representation, and other typically union reps who were included by the governing bodies spilt, they could, in the end, work it out properly.


Industrial Designer proposed to design mouse-like click function and the scrolling function which is the simplest in technology. In addition, some small protuberances can be designed under the remote control, which is more convenient for users from the perspective of ergonomics, and the battery can be installed from the engineering point of view. He also proposed a two in one remote control. The small remote control has simple basic functions and is easy to carry. The large remote control is not easy to lose when it is fixed on furniture such as a sofa or table.


The team discussed the conceptual design and some specific details in this meeting. Industrial Designer talked about the components concept of industrial design, such as the different choice of energy and the different material of the remote control. The team would find out which one to use in the future. User Interface designer gave the presentation about system design, mainly about programme design for different users and to help them use the device. Then the team decided to discuss the marketing part at first, then discuss what to design. Marketing talked about specific details found in the market survey. The team agreed to use fancier design, less buttons and focus on voice recognition. They would find out whether using LCD on remote controls was too expensive or not. Team members agreed to use a voice commander and fixed charger, which would prevent the remote control getting lost. Then the team talked about the set of vocabularies for the speech recogniser.


The professor thought it was possible to reduce the effects of reverberation by removing the low-energy segments. He thought a VAD-like approach would work. This would make it so that the model was more likely to keep an echo than throw out speech.


Dr David Blaney believed that governing bodies were not likely to exhibit as an imprudent risk appetite since they would see the potential risks coming through in forecasts, in requests for borrowings, predominantly and many other ways. Although the government body included a slightly different perspective, divisions were not falling short. Besides, commitments from enthusiastic people and occasionally with a slightly external perspective would also be a help.


PhD C told the team about two approaches to on-line normalization. On was using a time constant and the other was using different means for silence and speech. But the means were not behaving as expected. Addition of white noise made it such that the important difference between the means disappeared.


The project manager considered that the goal of the new remote control project was to design a new and original remote control which is trendy and user-friendly. He wanted its price to be 25 Euro and it would be sold all over the world.


The group agreed on making it small, but the findability was a problem. The user interface designer suggested that since the remote control was only linked to one TV set, it could stick to somewhere. And in order to reduce the size, the user interface designer further suggested that the remote control could charge within the socket, so it could obtain electricity which was provided from the TV`s power source.


According to Bethan Owen, seven of the universities are referring to mobility, so they are including an element of it from their own income and fee and access income. However, Erasmus is such a well-established and long-term plan that to implement anything similar to it would be much less efficient and much more costly, so  replacing it would be a challenge.


Marketing suggested that they could devise a new system for the remote control, and make the remote into a miniature laptop. The reason for the occurrence of the idea is that there are already many kinds of cutting-edge remote controls in the market, and the multi-functional remote could control all sorts of appliances in the house.


They were the first of the funding councils in the UK to have a memorandum of understanding with the National Union of Students in Wales, ahead of the rest of the UK in requiring all HE providers to have student charters and there are elements of student protection within the student charter. They're also requiring further education institutions who are regulated and deliver higher education to do similar or the same, and that's very important.


Project Manager introduced a new remote control project. The team started to know each other by introducing their roles in this project. Project Manager then invited everyone to raise ideas about the remote. Their discussion included its versatility, anti-loss design and possible appearance, but there was no final decision on these matters. The team agreed that the remote control should be one-handed, user-friendly and globally attractive. In addition, they noticed that these ideas should be realized under the price target and balance the stability and design sense of the remote control.


PhD E informed the team that Guenter was putting the Wall Street Journal data on the team's disks. There was a lot of data so it would take some time to run the models.


Marketing thought that making the remote look cool and modern was important. Marketing also thought that many buttons could be removed or combined. Marketing also thought a tracking device and speech recognition could be good ideas.


After Project Manager's brief review of the last meeting, Marketing began a presentation of the user requirements. It frustrated users most when they failed to find the lost remote control. The market research also revealed a necessity to simplify the remote control interface, for most buttons were not used. User Interface and Industrial Designer agreed on the intuitive interface design with menu navigation on an LCD screen and very few buttons involved. The new remote control would only be for basic functions such as volume adjusting and channel flipping. A separate joystick would be for additional functionality. The new remote control would be the integration of original remote controls for different devices. Voice recognition would not be feasible due to the budget limit. A speaker and a transmitter were desirable, however, for the location function.


It was decided that SmartKom's action plans should be represented in XML as a state transition network. It was proposed that the term 'dialogue planner' should replace 'dialogue manager'. Prolog will be phased out completely and replaced by Java code. The dialogue manager must be capable of changing states, i.e. go from being event driven to answering a question from a planning module.


Dawn Bowden AM challenged that informal measures or actions had been taken in their role as regulator, and Kirsty Williams AM explained that the commission was expected to be able to have a series of abilities to intervene, from the soft, flexible type, which was non-punitive but actually allowed people to participate in it. Meanwhile, Huw Morris suggested that specific mechanisms and informal interactions with FE college principals, with the work-based learning provider network, etc had been used to hopefully achieve some alignment in the tertiary sector. Also, as a loan-based system of student finance, a system of block grant allocations and conditions could be attached to those grant allocations by HEFCW when things went wrong.


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Julie Morgan insisted that they were aware that different local authorities actually had adopted different patterns of providing early education. And with the Flying Start programme being geographically targeted, with the education being determined by the local authorities, they knew that there was a variance throughout Wales. Then they would like to see facilities developed in each local authority throughout Wales that would answer the needs of the families and the children in those areas. And It was demand-led and universally available to all parents who meet the eligibility criteria of working, so they believed the programme should be available to everybody.


User Interface held the same opinion as Industrial Designer that different remote controls that were incompatible with each other brought inconvenience to users. User Interface still presumed that this remote control was only for television.


They felt that the battery design should be long-lived, original, and conventional to ensure the battery's innovation, versatility, and durability. It should also not be far from the usual performance, or it may cause problems for new users.


According to Marketing's research, ninety one percent of the youngest age groups said they would spend more money to buy a remote with speech recognition.


The funding position would be the main pressure. The recommendations for re-establishing funding at Welsh institutions are expected to take quite a bit longer.  Wales institutions are still funding at a lower level. Then, as for enrollments, there is also the start of a reduction, both in Welsh-domiciled and English-domiciled applications to Wales. And finally, the uncertainty about potential consequences that could arise from the review in England of fees and funding—the Augar review.


Project Manager mentioned four points. Firstly, Project Manager pointed out that teletext was outdated and internet would be the main focus. Then it was proposed that the remote control would only be used for TV, rather than a multi-purpose one. What's more, the project should target a new customer group, which was younger than 40. Logo and slogan of the remote control were required to attract more attention, but it was not for now.


The team came up with some general desired features about their new TV remote controls,including compatibility, appearance and functions .First, they thought compatibility is of importance.Second ,they thought good looks and sizes of remote controls were two vital features .Third, buttons should be designed properly.


Grad C thought that one way to improve performance might be training LDA filters in different conditions. The professor D agreed that the LDA filter was interesting. He thought hamming would work too. Professor G said that most people just do on-line filtering, which entailed subtracting the mean, not LDA.


To answer Sian Gwenllian AM's question, Kirsty Williams AM mentioned that to include more critical workers and vulnerable students, more local authorities had been advised to move to a hub model, and the education ministry office had been able to publish guidance to local authorities on how issues around safe working in those hubs should be followed. Local authorities are asked to report any incidents where they were concerned about operation issues on the ground. Kirsty Williams AM also agreed with Sian Gwenllian AM that testing was crucially important in dealing with this crisis and the ability to be able to test, to trace and to quarantine would be critical to the next phase.


Firstly, using kinetic was quite a large expense at three Euros. Secondly, in terms of the material used on the device, the team decided to use a combination of rubber and plastic to cut costs with one color for the case and one color for the buttons. Moreover, the push button interface was inexpensive so the team agreed to add a special form for the case. Lastly, ssthe team did not choose joystick, LED display or advanced chips, they were able to make the budget under control.


This meeting was about the conceptual design of the remote control. Firstly, Marketing presented on the market trend and suggested a remote control with a fancy look and feel, technology innovation, and spongy material. Next, User Interface presented on conceptual design and recommended the control itself should use an inconsistent colour scheme. Then, Industrial Designer presented on the component design and that the cost, the complexity, and the size would have an impact on their remote design and reminded there would be a restriction on grouping plastic and rubber cases together. Lastly, the group discussed remote concepts and decided to have a small size remote with the speaker, the chip on print for the power, and a rubber case.


The team took turns to draw their favourite animals on the whiteboard while discussing what characteristics of that animal they liked. Project Manager's favourite animal at the time was an elk, since she considered it a large beautiful majestic creature that can overcome harsh terrain and defend itself. Industrial Designer followed with a cat, favoured for its independence and always knowing what they were doing. User Interface drew a dog, for dogs were trainable and friendly. Finally, Marketing chose a butterfly, seeing it as the symbol of spring arriving.


The government let people who lived with substance use to access medications more easily. Safe injection sites had been made in communities and community-based projects had been supported for people who were using substances.


Although highly challenged by the participants, Kirsty Williams AM argued that the Act had fulfilled the Government's objectives in regulating institutions, safeguarding contribution, managing fair access and protecting the principle of institutional autonomy. These strategic aims were still really important but in the new situation, it was required to recognise the higher education and research Bill across the border in England. In this case, to continue fulfilling its national outcomes, the Act should evolve by implementing new student support measures.


The meeting began with a short introduction to Hans Guenter, who was arriving soon and would be visiting for a few weeks. The team then discussed integrating mean log magnitude spectral subtraction into the SmartKom system. It seemed, however, that lengthening the time for this task was not very effective. The team also learned more about Wiener filtering which worked well when mixed with other approaches. It was almost as effective as the best systems. The team then delved into spectral subtraction and discussed the various ways in which it could be refined. The meeting ended with comments on the additional latency that was caused by this method.


Industrial Designer mentioned that the push-buttons were their expertise in the industry when discussing the interface. And Industrial Designer thought it seemed to be out of trend, while Marketing thought they had to have push-buttons. Industrial Designer supplemented that if they had LCD displays, users could select everything on the LCD. However, User Interface thought the LCD was just for fast scrolling. So User Interface suggested using it as normal control. Marketing mentioned that they wanted buttons for users and everything else menu-driven.


Hon. Mary Ng suggested that Canada,with our international partners in the U.S., Australia and the U.K., made a joint statement in which countries were expressing deep concern regarding China's imposition of a new security law for Hong Kong. Moreover, with hundreds of thousands of Canadians living in Hong Kong, the government had a vested interest in Hong Kong's stability and prosperity, the foundations of which were Hong Kong's relative autonomy and basic freedoms. Canada would always support and promote freedom of speech, freedom of expression and freedoms of the press around the world.


When it comes to the evaluations on the legitimacy of the children's rights, protection and demands, Nicola Edwards mentioned that they had been working on the coronavirus Act to see if they could ease some of the statutory requirements, further helping the childcare and education affairs in the future. Then Albert Heaney went on to elaborate that it was because that they were not meant to include any easements in children's social services at first, however, it was obvious at present that at least for those carers, they had to break the law of social distance to keep looking after the children in need. Therefore, they were calling for the possibility of losing the law for those who did have something to do with childcare and education.


They decided to implement a LCD display with a scroll wheel. Instead of using hand dynamos, the group decided to use a wind dynamo which was more environmentally friendly. And they would keep the kinetic energy as an option and keep the spongy material preferences as well as voice recognition. At last, groupmates agreed to apply interchangeable cases with incorporated colours to make the remote more trendy. They would use a simple battery, the advanced chip, a curved side case and rubber buttons.


The team listened to a recording of the interface's trial run. Litonya was asked to be the first subject of the interface and Fey acted as the wizard. The team was happy with Fey's performance and decided to hire her. Upon Fey's suggestion, they also decided that the wizard should be introduced in a more appropriate fashion. The team also agreed that the run was too long at 5 minutes.


User Interface and Industrial Designer firstly presented on the prototype features which agreed to have a banana shape with a size that fitted to the hand. Also, they showed the prototype with a leaf base station with a calling button to locate the remote control. As agreed by the group, the prototype would have two scroll wheels to control the volume and the channel, the turbo button that also could be used to turn on the TV, the teletext button to faster switch the channel. Also, the group decided to give up on the solar cells and to use rechargeable batteries for the power source. Concerning the product cost, the group decided to use a regular chip for the speaker.


According to Kirsty, they are actually in an unusual situation but they were trying to create a system where it would be seamless and it would not necessarily matter that two of those weeks were formally holidays. One particular group of children and young people that they hoped would be eligible to be included in the potentially vulnerable category was young carers. The basic principle they used was that even if it was a minority of children who went to those schools and were vulnerable, they deserved and needed the support through the school.


User Interface and Industrial Designer gave a presentation about the prototype of the remote control based on the team's discussion in the previous meeting. Then the team evaluated the prototype against various criteria they formulated. After that, the team discussed adjusting the design of the remote in order to fit into the budget. Finally, the team evaluated the whole process of the project.


The team thought that people would not respond to their emails, which would be compounded by them being out of town over the summer. Based on knowledge about similar data collection, they thought that emails should be enough, but skepticism about getting consent with emails prevailed.


This meeting was about the functional design of the remote control. Firstly, the Project Manager mentioned new requirements including one recognizable button in the middle, the handy design, rubber materials and they would not use teletext. Next, Marketing presented on functional requirements including a fancy look, ease of use, and the LCD as well as speech recognition. Then, Industrial Designer introduced technical design and working design on remote interfaces. Lastly, User Interface presented on component design and the group decided to adopt a user-centered approach to reduce the main buttons and put a big circle in the middle with the power button, channel, and volume buttons.


The industrial designer worried that the function would make the product difficult to use, which was against the product requirement. Then the user interface designer thought it would depend on how much effort the user could put. Thus, the group decided to produce two versions - one giving the full freedom to the user, the other keeping some constraints.


Kirsty Williams AM shared that the government were working closely with local authorities to understand what school had already done, for instance lending Chromebooks, iPads and laptops to children. Schools should make sure that students' access to current education patterns were available to all. Besides, nationwide purchase of digital learning tools, the government was also looking to purchase and distribute Mi-Fi connectivity on a national level. Last but not least, the government and local authorities were together continuing to identify education gap and decided to repurpose some of the resources which had been previously identified for the EdTech investment, using those resources to fill this particular gap.


Industrial Designer suggested having a trendy remote control with bright color, red for instance. But Marketing argued that it might add to cost and make it more difficult to design if the cover were to be changed. Industrial Designer also suggested that young people could draw on the cover to make their own remote control more unique. But again, it was questioned by User Interface who were not sure about whether it would be profitable.


In the design of the sphere remote control, User Interface used a hinge to connect the middle part, and a light sensor was used to avoid too many buttons. Project Manager proposed that the handle could make it more stable, but lost the features of the sphere; in the design of the joystick keyboard, Marketing also wanted to use hinges to make the keyboard remote control more portable. Industrial Designer proposed to add a round shape under the keyboard remote control to make the remote control more user-friendly. Project Designer proposed to add sensors on both sides for users to use more conveniently.


The meeting was about a computer based navigation system that will be used to conduct linguistic experiments on navigational terminology and intentionality, and it was simultaneously being recorded for another project. The navigational interface allows people to walk around a place and perform basic actions, like entering a building. Its goal is to understand what people intend to do based on granular linguistic features. The experimental set up is that people talk to a human assistant who controls the program in an attempt to complete a certain task. To study intentionality, the team will determine important linguistic features and use a Bayes model to see if they can predict the intention based on utterances.


Based on Kirsty's words, this was a potential. The local authority had already chosen some locations and was already having communications with how they would then staff the centers. The local authorities were best placed to understand what was the best, pragmatic use of the resources that they had available, and of course those resources, primarily, were human beings. They wanted to give the parents confidence that, when they left their child with us, that child would receive something really worthwhile, and they could direct all of their attention to doing their job.


According to User Interface, most remote controls had an inconsistent layout, thus was difficult to use. Also, they were mostly in boring shape, grey and quite space-agey with too many buttons. Therefore, after discussion, the team decided to avoid those flaws they had discovered. Basically, the new designs would be with programmability function, organic shape and consistent layout.


Bains said that the government has been accommodating of small businesses in the past and it will continue to do so. The government has increased the threshold for individual companies and looks forward to making further adjustments. Bains emphasized that 590,000 loans have already been distributed through the CEBA program, highlighting its efficacy.


Kirsty Williams firstly made it clear that it would not be appropriate to comment this since this process was independent of Government. Hefin David then proposed the impact on students and staff. Kirsty Williams thought there would be a responsibility upon the University of South Wales to ensure that those students already in the system were able to complete their studies with the appropriate level of support and tuition to enable them to achieve their career aspirations and graduate from that program. The same was true for staff. Kirsty Williams thought that would be a matter for the institution. After this, they had some discussions on the geographic spread of provision.


If one remote control had a children module and another one had not, maybe parents would easily lose the one with children module. Those modularities increased the production cost, so having all functions in the same set could be cheaper.


Industrial Designer suggested that big size devices are hard to use and easily broken while a big button is more useful compared to a hundred small buttons. User Inter face believed that a LED on the remote control device helps the users know the battery usage and the device is working well. Marketing thought it would be convenient if one remote control could control all the devices. All these are accepted by the whole team.


User Interface suggested that they could design the symbols and colours for the remote. However, the Project Manager reminded the team that they should put their own logo and colour scheme on the remote, which means that they could not design those things by themselves.


The marketing specialist threw out the idea of making the remote control cover changeable and personalized. The marketing specialist further suggested that they could incorporate the TV theme elements such as Bart Simpson into the cover. However, it might raise a question about copyright issues so they decided to delay the discussion.


This was the last meeting of their work. The meeting was about a summary of the previous achievements and agreements, including the details of the design of the remote control, like issues of energy source and budget control. After talking about their ideal remote control, the group moved on to plan their group presentation. They discussed what the PPT should include, what they should and should not mention in the presentation and also compared their work with their competitors.


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.


When the group was discussing the four or five buttons around the scroll wheels, Marketing mentioned how to achieve going back to the menu with few buttons for main things if someone was changing the brightness. So User Interface thought that LCD screens might be a good theory, but not as useful in practice because people would not want to look down at the LCD screen and then back up at the television.


Marketing said that the team should be careful about the size of the remote control. He proposed that TV itself could have a remote control system which could be user friendly. He was suggesting some different technology.


User Interface supposed that it would be nice to have playing and recording and stop buttons on remote controls for the video recorder as well, but he didn't know if that worked technologically.


The project manager wants to sell the remote internationally for 25 euros and keep its cost under 12.50 euros to meet the global profit target of 50 million euros. But project managers don't calculate exactly how much they want to sell.


Industrial Designer recalled that some acquaintances have left- and right-handed people in the family but they all use the right-handed mouse for the computer. Marketing added that the remote only required pressing buttons and it would not be too hard. However, in the end, they agreed to have both in stock to make them more appealing.


The marketing specialist did some research and the marking specialist stressed on the topic of appearance. To combine with the company’s motto, the marketing specialist believed in providing the international market with fashionable remote controls. And the statistics also showed that eighty percent of users would spend more money when a remote control would look fancy. Hence customers would spend more money on a fancy-looking remote control.


The professor was not too excited about clustering. He thought that the team could identify the bands that were the most promising and weigh them more highly in the model. As it stood, the model was using all bands with equal strength.


Digits forms will instruct speakers to read digits separately and not as connected numbers. A tentative decision was made to collect overlapping digits from speakers.


There main data source was the child measurement programme, which collected information on children entering school aged four or five, showing that under a third of children at that age are overweight or obese. Dr Frank Atherton spoke of the frequency of being asked to have a longitudinal view over time of what's happening to Children, which was obviously essential for our schools and for the system and helpful for the strategy evaluation.


Project Manager agreed that the group had used fairly on the whiteboard and digital pen during the meeting. They all agreed on much creativity satisfaction during the discussion. User Interface supplemented that they should focus on broader target markets within the European countries. Also, Project Manager suggested that they should use the same evaluation criteria to do a street survey with young people. The group agreed to improve in an integrated circuit board to control things other than TV.


This meeting included three presentations from marketing, user interface and industrial design and discussion about core function of remote control. At first, marketing introduced the conclusion of experiment and questionnaire. Users thought remote controls were ugly and only used a few buttons. Since young users might prefer high technology features like speech recognition. After that, the user interface introduced how electric circuits, keyboard and transmitter reacted together. And group members discussed solutions of wave interference. Then industrial designer talked about working design and how LCD display or speech recognition might influence the design of circuits. And whether adding these functions would make the price out of range was discussed. After discussing new requirements for remote control from management, the group members started with core and basic functions, such as necessary buttons. Finally, they mentioned something about speech recognition and speech commands and their influence on battery life.


According to Kirsty Williams, she expects their challenge and support advisers to be having conversations that they need to have when they are with that school, to know about how they are using their PDG, and how they're demonstrating an impact for those resources. It's a fundamental role for the challenge and support advisers in the regional consortia in their school improvement work.


Project Manager introduced the overall plan for designing the product that has to be original, trendy and user-friendly to the team and asked each team member to draw a painting with a technical device. The team shared their experiences with remote control devices and gave ideas about the new remote control product features. They decided that the new device should be good-looking, easy to use and cost saving.


Grad D was focused on filing his taxes. He explained to the team that he had both Canadian and US income, so he had to file taxes in both countries for the preceding year.


Having a target is more of its deliverability than just having it according to Dr Frank Atherton. Since there had been not that successful examples, Dr Frank Atherton considered that they must balance deliverability with challenge. Also, Dr Frank Atherton thought a target was one tool in the box that they could use, but moreover, an evaluation which could help them know where they are was very needed. At the same time, there was still a lot to achieve.


They wanted the number of buttons to be as small as possible and only stuck on useful functions. They thought that channel changing and volume setting button was obviously needed. There could also be key buttons which were used to select a specific channel. An individual power button was also considered necessary after discussion. But the user interface rejected having a TV setting button on the remote control.


Project Manager suggested scrap speech recognition to cut four euros. User interface insisted that speech recognition was a special and new feature so it shouldn't be lost. However, compared to advanced chip and curve shape, the group decided to cut the speech recognition function.


According to the lab tests, users only use ten percent of the buttons on a remote. It was shown that users didn't really need all the buttons provided by current remotes, and it would be more user-friendly if their new remote could lose the unnecessary ones. The most frequently used buttons were those for the channel, the volume and the power on/off.


The Liberals were accused of promoting the harmful status quo of maintaining the ban on blood donations from gay men and trans women. Additionally, they, together with the conservatives, were also accused of using the emergency wage subsidy to fund their own partisan activities at the expense of vulnerable citizens.


The Prime Minister explained that the government recognized that several organizations and companies were facing difficulties because of COVID-19 and they were supporting people all over the country through that program. Although the opposition party was getting rigorous about the intensity of the question, the Prime Minister kept emphasizing that the government's priority had always been workers in difficulty so that they do not lose their jobs. This applied to all organizations and companies in the country to the extent possible.


They touched on contingency plans, which also focus on promotion and look for additional or increased sources of funding, and touched on strengthening the Global Wales engagement in order to sell Wales. The other sector that they worked on  is the funding of infrastructure. So they worked with UK universities to make arguments at UK Government level.


In the development of the project, this meeting was at the basis where a prototype of the product had been designed and it mainly focused on discussion about the cost and pricing of the product based on the material it used and the profit they wanted to obtain through this product. It turned out that the cost was very reasonable and the price was also very attractive. Then, the team evaluated the product by scoring according to criteria based on the user's requirements and marketing trends. The meeting went very well and every team member agreed with each other on the evaluation results, which was promising to lead a success in this project.


The meeting began with the members' personal presentations on the conceptual remote control. The Marketing would like the remote control to be with an appealing appearance and light material to attract more young consumers. The User Interface proposed to add a speak recognition system onto the remote control so that it would be able to function according to the user's instruction. After the presentations, they spent some time on the button layout and the shape of the remote control. Though the discussion was mostly smooth, they hardly reached an agreement towards the materials. At the end of the meeting, the group talked about the company features on the product, including a slogan and a logo.


The team was starting a transcription project for which they would have to collect a lot of speech data and then transcribe it. The meeting covered the pipeline they would use to create their data set. The team started by discussing the technical issues with their own recording equipment and then moved onto a general overview of the entire pipeline. Then, the team narrowed down on how they could carry out transcriptions. Various ideas were thrown around, but the team did not seem convinced that a software could do the task. They would need human annotators due to the granularity they were aiming for. Then, the team talked abut transcription conventions; what should be annotated and how? The team also talked about the interface they could use for transcriptions. Finally, the team ended with a discussion on the time it takes to annotate and the electronics involved.


As a functional module, the action planner is too restrictive for the tourist domain and requires complex slots from the dialogue manager. Interactions in a deep map system between the spatial planner and the route planner are too convoluted. SmartKom requires a fast and robust parser that includes language-specific extensions.


PhD F explained that they were trying to do something with meeting recorder digits for Eurospeech. Some people on OGI were working on a paper due on the 13th of May.


The marketing suggested producing the controller in a way that makes it upgradable like a sim card in the telephone. However, the industrial designer argued that if the controller was to have other functions it would need more buttons and they should design another version instead. Also, the project manager pointed out there would be some risks of making it unusable or less usable.


User Interface recommended to design a power cradle for the controller so that it would be unnecessary to change batteries. In this way, users would always know where the remote was because they had to put the device back to the cradle to charge it, which addressed the problem of losing it. This attempt would also do good to the look and feel of the remote control as a whole. The idea would be considered by the group, but they had to look into how much this might increase the cost.


Project Manager wanted to make a profit of 50 million euros for a cost of 12.50 euros for 25 euros worldwide.


The postdoc thought that it was a good idea to collect digital notes during the meeting in principle, but was concerned about the noise it would add to the mic. Postdoc thought that notes could even be taken after the meeting, by transcribers. All in all, he thought notes were useful for generating summaries.


User Interface believed that the team should design the case and the whole remote control in the company. And for colors and the logo, User Interface would recommend a yellow case, with round edges and the logo at the bottom. User Interface also suggested a set of buttons with its own color to make it recognizable. But this idea was turned down by Project Manager.


This is the first Real Reaction's development meeting for the new remote control. The team members got acquainted with each other and Project Manager introduced the financial target. Each product would be priced at 25 Euros and a 50% profit is made, aiming at making an overall profit of 50 million Euros. In terms of style and design, the remote control should be stylish to stay competitive. Also, it should be made dependable and of medium size and the user interface can be made into face-plates. The material should be plastic as it is the lightest. To market the remote control, the project team can launch parallel marketing schemes to fit both customers who value the remote control's appearance and those who value its practicability. To market interchangeable fronts, the team can either get control in a set of colours or with face-plates.


According to Kirsty, this was a really worrying time for children and young people. For schools and institutions, they had the formal NHS counselling services to the check-ins. They were concerned that for some children, their access to their counselling was via their school. They knew that and they were just double checking the capacity of online counseling that already existed - online counselling tools that children already used because they did not want to go to the counsellor in the school and be seen in the school corridor going to the counsellor.


When discussing whether they were on the right track after so many changes in their design, the Marketing offered a questionnaire for the group to check if they did the right thing. The questionnaire included both positive issues and negative ones, and by ticking all the questions on it, the group received a mark to evaluate their work as well as compare themselves to their counterparts. To the Project Manager's satisfaction, the score eventually showed that they made the right decision and exceeded some others.


The Aurora staff was tinkering around with various parameters, like the insertion penalty. The professor expressed interest in knowing what the exact penalties were to make decision about the team's models.


The Deputy Minister proposed that she encouraged members to reject amendment 3A. She said she was not seeking to add any new powers to the Bill. Amendment 3 would simply add the existing power back onto the face of the Bill, where amendments 7 and 8 remove it, and amendment 6 would bring the power into force the day after Royal Assent. Then Suzy Davies said that amendment 3A was a holding position, and they would return this to the Deputy Minister in stage 3. Suzy thought this was an area where it might be valuable to discuss quite what kind of powers they were looking for, because Suzy Davies thought the Deputy Minister might need something that was beyond transitional, transitory and saving. At last, they took a vote for this and ended up with rejecting amendment 3A, and agreeing on amendment 3.


The group thought remote controls should keep children safe while using them. At the same time, the remote control should be brightly coloured. Even if it is not colourful, it should also choose a monochrome colour that children like to attract them.


The team agreed that the prototype had a fancy look-and-feels once they did not choose the traditional ugly black and grey color but incorporated the company's color. Although, there were only push buttons and no LED display, the incorporation of the kinetic energy, making the device more durable and rubber material made it technologically innovative. Moreover, the team thought the device was easy to use and good looking but Project Manager suggested that the company logo could be smaller. Besides, the device's simplistic made it stand out and customers were willing to pay a little more for that and its good appearance. Last but not least, the device could match the operating behavior of the average user and the alarming function, a light would vibrate, added value to the device.


Considering the message from the management board, Project Manager emphasized the marketing competitiveness of remote controls over the costly and time-consuming need for making a generic remote control for everything. Therefore, the plan for a generic one was cancelled.


PhD G explained how the data represents the number of overlaps regardless of the number of speakers. It is important to  answer the question of whether overlaps are distributed evenly throughout or whether they are in bursts. Anonymizing the results and classifying overlaps by type may assist in standardizing cultural ways of conversing. PhD G proposed finding the average length of overlaps and the distribution of the duration of overlaps .


Too much noise was causing the model to perform worse, so the noise addition was constant and not too high. The overall improvement was good. The smoothing for the average for noise addition was only done on low gains. The model performed better on high mismatch.


The meeting occurred very close to the finalization of the Aurora model. The team discussed how various components of the model could be moved around to improve results. They had to decrease system latency as well to meet the Aurora requirements. The team thought that LPC could solve the problems they were having. The team also began discussing the Wall Street Journal data and task, which focused on speech recognition. The team was studying the task and learning from Mississippi State's existing model on how to perform better on it. Finally, the team discussed how they could histogram equalization as an alternative to some of the techniques they were using in their current models.


The meeting focused on the Aurora project. The Professor began with some updates on how certain decisions made by those leading the project did not make sense. There was some confusion and debate about how to move forward. The team then moved onto a discussion about measuring the effect of a given feature on the model. The professor outlined the specific methodology. At the time, the team was focused on testing for C-zero and C-one only, but they decided to expand their testing. Finally, the professor told some stories to explain future directions and the team had a brief discussion about their hardware.


Investment needed to implement the plan was more about resourcing. Dr Frank Atherton said they currently did make investments in a number of areas that related to child health generally, and, of course, obesity and overweight in particular. And now, according to existing programmes, a figure of £8 million to £10 million a year had been bandied around as a broad kind of area of what they might need. Dr Frank Atherton also put priority in thinking about the totality of the £7 billion they spent in health and social care and how they could divert and channel some of that towards broad prevention initiatives in general, and towards tackling being overweight and obesity in particular.


A had seen an example of this kind of XML format before. A thought that the time boundaries were nicely handled but believed that smaller linguistic units would drain too much memory. It was essentially like a lattice, in his opinion. Though, A did not seem too concerned with dealing with smaller linguistic units since the problem would not be encountered frequently.


The team had started putting together the various techniques they had developed into a single software. Their score was 53.6 and it was working on spectral subtraction and noise addition after cleaning up mel bins. The professor did not think much had changed.


According to the user interface designer, to implement this function, the users should press a button to start the program and type in their favourite channels. The project manager liked this idea and the marketing thought it would be another great market tool. In terms of the cost, the project manager believed it wouldn't be too expensive because they could come up with a partnership to produce that quite cheaply, but the marketing held that the technology was available through their own service. Furthermore, this function must be accompanied by a mode switch and an indicator.


The meeting was mainly about the exchange of the preliminary ideas about a new TV remote control project. They first got used to the writeboard and drew some animals with it.Project manager wanted to sell this remote control for twenty five Euro and expected profit will be around fifty million Euro. 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 were unanimously considered to be the most essential.


Industrial Designer suggested a rechargeable station like a cradle for the iPod when discussing the battery for essential functions because it might contribute to fewer people losing it too if it stayed in one place. Project Manager agreed and suggested thinking about the space in the living room as well when designing this feature.


This meeting was about the functional design of the remote control. Firstly, User Interface presented on the technical function design. For the previous remote, User Interface found it was clunky but the functions were basic, or the remote was too complicated with lots of buttons. Based on this, User Interface demonstrated two kinds of buttons access to advanced functions. Next, Marketing presented on market trends and proposed three inspirations including the fancy look and technology innovation based on the customer needs. Then, Industrial Designer presented on the working design and introduced the working design logic of the battery and power source. Lastly, the group discussed the remote functions. They decided to have fifteen to thirty-five-year-old target groups as well as to have video controls map to advanced functionality so that they could skip the basic channel button.


The team was concerned that there was something wrong with the back-end of the model. The professor was insistent that the problem was probably with the lack of data. The team also speculated that their data was more challenging.


Industrial Designer said that the younger people fancied soft materials and primary colors. For example, total yellow or totally red could be visible. The shapes could be curved and round,which would be easier to use. It would be better to use the basic battery so everybody could get it at the supermarket, or to use a kinetic battery after shaking it a few times, it could be loaded. Industrial Designer suggested hard plastic material and rubber since the younger people liked that. The survey also discovered that the young favored a scroll push like the mouse to use for channels and volume.


According to Mr. Blaney, there are two dimensions. Fee and access plans are approved annually by Mr. Blaney's group. They go through their financial sustainability, which is based on their forecasts and data. And also, the fee plans themselves make assumptions about how many students of different types are going to be recruited. Unless the institutions can find other students, and they will reduce the amount of investment in the various activities that are identified in the fee plans.


Industrial Designer first explained how the remote control worked and how people could build one. Based on this, he rejected the idea of using Bluetooth, which was proposed during the last meeting, by pointing out that the cost would be over the budget. From the aspect of Industrial Designer, he/she recommended to keep the remote control simple and still use infrared technology. When it came to the design and functionality, Industrial Designer thought that they should stick to the basic things.


Project Manager mentioned the target market group because the team would make a product evaluation on the next meeting. Project Manager implied that the team should consider a younger age bracket, for they were most likely to be the group that owned enough free cash, and was, at the same time, prone to replace their remote controls.


The group discussed the potential for assigning additional tasks to ICSI's transcriber pool, including tagging more fine-grained acoustic information, and discourse and disfluency tagging.


In general, the team came up with two ways to reduce the costs. First, they would essentially remain the same shape as the prototypes, but just have it flattened. In User Interface's words, it would be more like a traditional remote control. Second, the team reached a consensus that the design of double curves shall be changed into a single curve since it was the biggest expense there. Luckily, after the discussion, the overall cost of the new remote controls went down to eleven Euros sixty.


The team agreed that there should be 17 buttons on the remote, including number 0 to 9, volume up and down, mute, channel up and down, stand-by and power buttons. Besides the buttons of brightness and contrast should be put on the back of the remote.


User Interface and Industrial Designer agreed on the intuitive interface design with menu navigation on an LCD screen. Meanwhile, the team would involve as few buttons in the remote control interface as possible. The new remote control would only be for basic functions such as volume adjusting and channel flipping. A separate joystick would be for additional functionality. The new remote control would be the integration of original remote controls for different devices. Voice recognition was unfeasible due to the budget limit. A speaker and a transmitter were desirable, however, for the location function.


Because User Interface thought there should be a turnaround time between product evaluation and its formal release. User Interface believed that many products had been released to the market without being properly user-tested and didn't receive positive results, so the remote control should be minimally tested before redesigned and fine-tuned to suit a general range of requirements according to the feedback from product evaluation.


Industrial Designer proposed to give up the curve, but other people argued that the remote control would turn into something ordinary and be a straightforward remote control. Project Manager thought it would be a good idea to separate their product from the rest of the remote control world. Therefore, they decided to keep the curve.


Since the marketing and the user interface designer mentioned speech recognition in their previous presentations, the industrial designer suggested putting a simple speech recogniser on the digital signal processing chip and training the speech recogniser for particular users. However, the user interface designer concerned that it would be too complex. Then the industrial designer argued that even some simple mobile devices could have these voice dialers so it wouldn't be so sophisticated, and the marketing also said the product would be good to sell with the speech recogniser.


The user interface designer wanted a universal controller with speech recognition to store channel information so that the users could just say out the name of a channel like BBC instead of remembering the exact number of it. Also, a blinking thing which could serve as the battery alarm and the indicator of the location of the controller was taken into account by the group. The user interface designer wanted the product to be children-friendly, which meant users could program it to prevent children from browsing certain channels. In terms of the product components, there would be an integrated circuit, some transistors, buttons, scroll wheels, infrared, LED, LCD, and an advanced chip.


To answer Hefin David AM's question, Kirsty Williams AM first stressed that the success of the fee and access plan relied on the understanding of whether an annual basis was an appropriate timescale for a university to be working to, and whether a long period was suitable for the Act. Sometimes it was hard to make a final judgment since the futures of the students were unpredictable but the fee and access plans could always be one of the drivers for some of the improvements. In the meantime, constant efforts had been put into communications with  a range of stakeholders to continue developing legislative proposals to assure the fee.


First, Industrial Designer introduced three optional sources of energy and recommended kinetic energy as they were light, novelty, and environmental-friendly. Project Manager agreed, but Marketing suggested it should be corporated with a battery backup in case something went wrong. After that, the group discussed solar energy, considering it impractical for remote control although it can be stored. With complete confidence by Industrial Designer and Project Manager, the group finally reconciled with the idea of full kinetic energy and treated it as one selling point.


The feature classification had means of 0.3 for voiced and 0.59 for unvoiced on voice-unvoice, though the variance was quite high. The team was using TIMIT and was in the stage of looking for features. The professor thought that the team's intuition was leading them to make statistical characterizations of what was missing from the spectral envelope. They could use things they were potentially losing in the smoothing process.


This was the first meeting on the team's project. It started with every member introducing themselves, getting to know each other's names as well as their individual roles in the project. Project Manager then revealed the overall plan for their project, announcing that they were going to design a new television remote that would be both trendy and user-friendly. After that, each person drew their favourite animals on the whiteboard and shared their reasons for the choice, with Project Manager choosing an elk, Industrial Designer a cat, User Interface a dog, and Marketing a butterfly. Project Manager then added some financial details to their plan, setting their selling price and cost. In the following brainstorming time, they raised ideas on night-time operation, a tracking device, and the design for buttons and shape. Finally, Project Manager arranged tasks for each team member to take on until their next meeting.


There was a two-pronged approach to solve the problem. One is the new curriculum, which was all about improving the quality of teaching and learning in the classroom. Poor pupils could gain more from it than their peers. The other one was to have a community-focused approach to schools through helping the pupils and their families.


The group agreed that the remote should be fancy and easy to be hand-held. It should not be too small or too big in good shape. They agreed to bring new technologies and push toward the internet for young peoples. So they would use the wheel to navigate. Also regarding the budget, they had a new target price but it would be impossible to have LCD and automatic speech recognition technologies implementation.


Regretfully, Marketing did not get specific user requirements for now. Instead, User Interface made a contribution to the discussion. Users mainly expected the remote control to be user-friendly. To be more specific, the button size ought to be regular, and the remote control was expected to be a handy and small unit. It would be more satisfying if the zapping range was big enough so that the remote control could work from a distance.


The children in secondary schools themselves are older and therefore have greater challenges. As a result, it's also more difficult to engage with the parents of older children than younger children.


Project Manager suggested having a large version of the company's logo in the middle of the remote. User Interface pointed out that this design would make the remote too big and wide to fit into one hand. Furthermore, a large logo would take up so much space that the buttons would have to be smaller, and thus they would be less discernible. Project Manager acknowledged that User Interface's argument was reasonable. User Interface then proposed an alternative design, curving the remote like a hand with scroll buttons on the side.


The professor informed the team that the evaluation was on November 13. He encouraged the team to run experiments to learn which factors were the most important. The team was concerned about how the evaluation would be weighted, but they did not expect it to be significantly different. There was a chance that the evaluation would be pushed.


The prototype was attractive, bright blue and snail shaped with buttons in different colours such as yellow. It was compact so it could easily fit in the hand and buttons could be easily accessed. Moreover, the material for the case would be plastic but the buttons would be made with soft rubber. For the light emitting diode of the LED, it would be fluorescent green and it would be a bulb like an ordinary infrared. Last but not least, there would be an oyster-shaped holder for the remote.


Marketing first of all suggested focusing on elderly people who really got problems with remote controls and then pointed out the unclear button allocation on remote controls. To solve this problem, Marketing put forward that the remote control buttons should be grouped based on functions they serve. Project Manager agreed.


According to Kirsty Williams, people should look at exclusions and also have to read across about how the whole system works, not just the PDG element of the system. 66% of looked-after learners have some additional learning need, so they can't just look at it in terms of this particular source of funding. It can't be just the job of the PDG.


User Interface suggested adding a flip screen on the remote control in order to prevent users from accidentally pressing buttons and bring unwilling results, especially for families with children. Given that the products were to be made out of wood, Industrial Designer proposed to use a copper hinge. But User Interface disagreed by pointing out that this might increase the weight of the product.


Condolences were shared to the families of the people who were involved in a fatal accident in Placentia bay. Sadly, Mr. Dufuor, Mr. Rogers, and Mrs. Louise Feltham also passed away the week before. Condolences were also given to the essential workers who lost their lives in service of others.


Marketing was asking what RSI was when mentioning the user needs to be easy to use. User Interface answered that it was repetitive strain injury. So Marketing denied this function because it did not match people's operating behaviour and users wanted a remote control with fewer buttons which would be easy to learn. Just like the audio setting was not given as much importance and visibility on the remote as something like channel changing that's used a lot more often.


In this meeting, the team first gave presentations about their ideas most about remote control's functional design based on research and knowledge they had already known. And then Project Manager delivered new requirements for the look, functions, and some others about the remote control. Later on the team brainstormed about many functional designs—where to put buttons and how much size they should be, the necessity of beep and flash, the design of covers, and the choice of LCD screen and rechargeable batteries—of the remote control based on new requirements, researches, current technology and production price. Finally they decided about the remote's button design and had an optimistic attitude towards rechargeable things but there still needed more market research when they gave a sketch of the new product.


The User Interface proposed to build a stand-alone one, which can be different from any other devices. The Project Manager then added that it might be better with more useful functions like changing the faces. Marketing came up with the idea of making it be functional for other devices as well, just including everything in this remote control.


The model that PhD B was working on performed better on high mismatch than on the well matched case. The professor thought that this reflected the team's priority, which had always focused more so on the high mismatched case. PhD H was concerned that their model did worse on medium and high mismatch. Adding noise hurt their model.


The team discussed how sonorance detection could constitute a low-level feature that their models detected. In one of the models, low level detectors are looking for specific sonorance features which are more robust than typical full-band Gaussian mixtures.


This was the final meeting of detailed design. To start with, Project Manager introduced the planned scheme of the meeting, followed by User Interface and Industrial Designer indicating the possible changes into an LCD screen and a jog-dial. After that, the group continued to talk about the slogan, the button size, and the button color. However, considering the budget, they consistently abandoned some of the designs. These included kinetic power, rubber material, LCD panel, advanced chip, and special colored buttons. Marketing moved the discussion to evaluate the current design through collectively rating from one to seven. The final part was the project evaluation, including the system, leadership, teamwork, and tools given.


The team got warmed-up through the opening drawing game which also works as the tool training process. The meeting was primarily composed of discussions among team members on potential functions and designs of remote controls based on their own life experiences. By then, feasibilities on budgets and demographic marketing strategies were also taken into consideration which influence greatly the potential functions and designs.


The meeting was about various approaches that the team could pursue for further research. The team initially discussed the delay between the frequency bands which was causing problems in the model deployment. They then discussed how spectral subtraction could help various tasks. The meeting ended with more ideas on improving the model, like directionality of voice and looking at smaller units of sound in recordings.


Grad B shared some of his progress on how the modulation spectrum could speak to the intelligibility of different linguistic units. Grad C was working on reverberation and how a model may deal with varying reverberation response. The discussion ended with different pronunciation, "O" and "zero" for the digit zero.


Transcribers occasionally misidentified speakers and omitted backchannels that were more hidden in the mixed signal.


Deleting segments of the recordings is expected to be very time-consuming for transcribers. More results are needed for generating adequate submissions for Eurospeech'01.


The button to the thumb was the power button, the index and middle finger were channels up and down, whereas the ring finger and pinkie were volumes up and down. The blue button with the inscription of "L" was to lock, whereas the one with "M" was to mute. Moreover, a numeric keypad was on the top so users could directly key to a channel.


This is the second meet-up for the new product of television remote control, with a particular focus on its functional design. Industrial Designer, Marketing and User Interface were each invited to give a presentation on the subject that they are in charge of. On the basis of conducted user requirement survey, Industrial Designer and User Interface put forward their ideas on remote control features which are new to the existing market, along with the functionality and outlook of the product. Among all the features, speech recognition command takes up the majority of discussed subjects. The group also discussed the material appropriate to use in the construction. After the group determined the financial target of this project, as well as the production price and reasonable selling price, Marketing suggested taking a risk in price rise.


Industrial Designer made a presentation about the personal preference for components design. The remote should have a solid case in plastic and soft rubber and the rubber push-buttons. As for the energy source, the basic battery was better because it was more convenient for remote control users. As for the chip, the simple electronic chip should be available with an LED transmitter. Next, the group came to discuss the possibility of LCDs that had been noted.


Industrial Designer thought that the spherical remote control is easy to be thrown back and forth, which would reduce its service life and lack stability. There should be a compromise between the sense of design and stability.


Project Manager introduced the agenda of the meeting, and the group became acquainted with each other. The selling target of the remote control would be set as four million. The group discussed industrial design, working design including the theme of Hello Kitty and bright colours. They also decided that the remote control was only for television, and its technical functions must be simple and marketing the user requirements specification.


Industrial Designer pointed out that voice technology was fundamental to the project and Marketing also revealed the importance of technological innovation.


Marketing suggested that they could do something funny for the shell as the snail was known to be slow and they could have a comic effect about how this was a rapid snail. User Interface and Industrial Designer agreed.


The Industrial Designer introduced the prototype of the product. It had not only the round basic shape which was made of hard plastics and titanium using different colors, but also the channel and volume buttons and so on. Basically , bright colours but not black were used, and the lower part of the device was made of titanium. On the side view, the product had the titanium colour and the logo was in the upper corner. Then the buttons like "okay", "volumn" and "channel", was with kind of arrow shapes, which made it more exciting than basic round or square buttons.


The leader of the opposition party raised the point that some companies which had purchased other companies might not be eligible for the wage subsidy program, and money allocated for the wage subsidy was going unspent because the government had left in unnecessarily rigid barriers for companies to be able to access it. However, the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs argued that the wage subsidy program was supposed to reach out to as many companies as possible, and the wage subsidy was really put in place by a large amount of money to protect workers across Canada.


According to ergonomics, the remote control was expected to fit as comfortable as possible into the hand. In addition, User Interface hoped that the remote control could have an unconventional and attractive shape. A small and stylish curve was User Interface's final choice to make the remote control look more unique.


Huw Irranca-Davies mentioned there were some economic issues and cultural issues to deal with, rather than the capacity problems.


Some of the Schools Challenge Cymru schools are making sustained improvement now that the programme has come to an end. Like the example of Tredegar, where we have seen continual improvement and moving up through the categorisation system. The challenge is for those schools that Schools Challenge Cymru didn't work for, and they haven't seen the progress of how to use the school improvement system now to continue to work with those schools . So now the focus is a whole-system approach, rather than choosing 39 schools to get that level of support. Schools Challenge Cymru would probably need about five years to really have the impact that it was intended to have.


The meeting mainly focused on the functional design of the remote control. After Project Manager reviewed the last meeting briefly, Marketing made a presentation about re-envisioning the menu functionality, current technology, and interaction with other tools of the remote control by discarding unnecessary buttons and adding the speech recognition to the remote control according to market research. User Interface argued that they should discard the existing standard, and only keep the basic and user-friendly functions like channel selection, volume and enter key. The group then discussed the source of power whether to have a charger or solar power. Although solar energy was fancy and environmentally friendly, the cost was much higher than using a charger. The group faced some difficulty when deciding the target group whether for the young end or for the lower end of the age range who have more money than sense. In the next part, the group reached a consensus in terms of the keys of the remote control, which is power, channel, volume, enter, number.


User Interface suggested that the prototype of the remote control would have an ergonomic shape, be made out of wood and the colour would be customisable. User Interface also introduced the general layout of the white board under the flip: the big yellow button would be charged for turning the TV on and off, the red triangle one would be used to change the volume, while the green one controlled the channel changing. There would be a dark blue numeric pad at the bottom and an LCD screen on the flip panel. The prototype would have a customised backing and front.


Marketing pointed out that the remote control for television should be user-friendly, with a visual feature to draw the attention of customers and that new ideas should be put into thought on facilitating its usage, so that users could avoid spending too much time on the instruction menu.


When talking about the uncertainty of Canadian economy and what the government should do, Cathy McLeod mentioned that the forestry industry even suffered depression before the outbreak of the COVID-19. The plants closed, and thousands of workers were unemployed. Meanwhile, both the art industry and fishery industry had received support from the government. Therefore, Cathy McLeod asked for more attention to the forestry to help them go through the difficulty. In response to her petition, ministers said that they did consider a lot of the solutions, including further investment and industrial revolution.


In order to make the final evaluation, the team needed to give rating to these products. Of the design of the three fruits, the teams agreed to give two points. As for the trend, since fruits and vegetables were quite populous, the final rating was three. In terms of the company strategy, the rating was one because it perfectly conformed to the strategy. The overall evaluation is around two, which was quite good.


The team wanted the data participants to minimize their contact with their data. They wanted them to sign a waiver first not to view the transcript by default only allowing them to view it.


The meeting was basically on functional design. First, the marketing talked about the user requirements based on a market survey and suggested making their new product good-looking and equipped with less buttons and a speech recognition system. Then 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 design included just a few buttons, a screen with a back light and titanium, which was accepted by the group. Finally, when it came to the working design of the remote control, the industrial designer described the product as a portable device with some energy source, an interface, a processor, some infrared source, different encryption codes for different TVs, and speech recogniser. All these components would be within budget. At the end of the meeting, the group also talked about how to enable the users to find the controller.


Kirsty Williams AM shared that the government had listened to stakeholders' concerns regarding proposals to introduce a single quality assessment body. And she stressed that the principles underlying any assurance regime would need to be coherent, effective and comprehensive. Besides, the quality framework should cover higher education to make it compatible with ENQA, which was considered as highly important going forward, since it would be compatible with current UK-wide baseline standards to avoid specific problems for the HE sector in Wales. Although it might cause a stir, a change must be made in the new situation. Huw Morris also suggested that greater synergy would be encouraged in the ways in which quality assurance and enhancement was undertaken in different areas of activity.


Meilyr Rowlands suggested that it was hard to compare Ofsted and Education Scotland and the Education Training Inspectorate in Northern Ireland with the decision to have Estyn as an independent body inspecting schools and other institutions in Wales. Different institutions did things slightly differently, but the government had benefited a lot from each one of them. Meilyr Rowlands concluded that the use of the nominee and peer inspectors in particular supported the whole process in Wales.


The meeting included an introduction to the project, the mechanics of training the data, standardizing the data for the models, the time involved, and planning efficient use of computational resources . The team members shared and discussed the existing model as well as the tests they intended to run. There was a problem standardizing labels as well as converting HTK labels to the format that the team wanted. Adding more dimensions to the current model was also causing concern because of the upper bound on computational resources.


Gareth Pierce decided that they would have regular meetings with Estyn about any problems with the specimen assessments and the mark schemes. They agreed with Estyn that ideally the whole package of resources should be available before teaching starts and would work on that.


Firstly, Project Manager reviewed the overall process that the team designed the remote control that they had viewed the fashion trends and incorporated the key features. After that, User Interface introduced the prototype of remote control based on the previous discussion of its function. The prototype was yellow like a banana with a simplest quick on-off button and could be used both-handed. Secondly, Marketing designed an evaluation test according to criteria found of the market trend as well as the customers' complaints and the team gave one to seven points to the shape, colour, material, controls and functions of the product. Thirdly, the team found that the current product exceeded the budget, so the team decided to completely discard the single button and LCD. Lastly, the team gave positive feedback on the project and the process.


Industrial Designer argued that the LCD and speech recognition features would largely add to cost. Project Manager said that the LCD would be cheaper than speech recognition and might be a good idea. The team would come back on that later.


Because it was hard to see which button did what when there were many buttons on the remote control. And the buttons were too small to press.


The professor thought that the Broadcast News net could be scaled down. The big one took two to three weeks. Phase normalization experiments relied on it. He also suggested that the math can be simplified to just complex numbers.