The group also considered the prospect of performing fine-grained acoustic-phonetic analyses on a subset of Meeting Recorder digits or Switchboard data. Pre-segmentation manipulations that allow for the segmentation of channel-specific speech/non-speech portions of the signal and the distinction of foreground versus background speech were discussed.


The user interface designer was trying to implement a more dynamic and youthful colour on the remote control. However, the designers did not want it to be too childish and stated their will to make it more of an adult-style. Thus they wanted to use metallic grey as the colour of the appearance, and make an extra cover with flashy fruity colours to attract the broader public. Since their target aim was still younger people, a cover would make them more flexible to change the remote control into whatever colour they wanted.


User Interface designed position of normal and usual buttons such as plus, minus, sound and program. Project Manager suggested the microphone was a special point so it should be placed visibly. Then User Interface decided to put the microphone in a company logo. Marketing thought scroll was convenient, Industrial Designer agreed and designed scroll on the side. Project Manager thought remote control would be fancier with scroll.


The meeting was mostly about the logistics of covering the legal bases around releasing meeting data. The team wanted to make sure that meeting participants would not sue for libel or releasing unwanted information. The team also went over the transcriptions that IBM had done as well as storage space, which was finally looking up. The meeting ended with a general discussion about the progress of the group and future directions.


The project manager thought it was a good idea and the cover could go for three to five Euros. However, he wondered whether the superiors would be glad with it because it would introduce a completely new line of supplies.


User Interface indicated to have a simple LCD screen to cut down the budget, while Industrial Designer suggested the application of a little more complex LCD panel, like the number pad, could display the advanced functions possibly used by the users. Marketing and Project Manager agreed with Industrial Designer. Next, the group turned to discuss some details, like the total size for the button, and the various functions of the button as well as a jog-dial.


Marketing was strongly against the ''no teletext but internet'' requirement, because he thought there was little chance that customers over 40 would use TVs with internet access in the near future. And he added that teletext was no doubt a key feature for the remote control, especially for the elder generation, and hence should not be ruled out anyway. Consequently, the group agreed to keep teletext and further negotiate with the board.


Industrial Designer believed that the basic function of the remote control is to send messages to another system. The remote control needed an energy source to supply power to the integrated circuit, and had a chip and related information to control the infrared lamp. In the design, it can make the battery and infrared lamp cheaper and more sustainable. It can also add the design of speech recognition interface according to the market research provided by Marketing.


Dr David Blaney suggested that the main challenge was finding the money. Although there was an additional £6.6 million allocated for research very recently by the Government, that was not sustainable and certainly not enough. Also, the Welsh government had recently issued their own vision for research and innovation and more investment in the Welsh research base would make the Welsh universities be more competitive in accessing funding at a UK level.


The professor explained that while the Danish model did not improve overall, the results were mixed over six cases. The team's models led to improvements, even without bug fixes, but they were better on the Danish than German.


The latency of the recursion was fifty milliseconds. The recursion added that much to the overall latency of the system. Though, PhD B suggested doing tasks in parallel to reduce total latency.


Mr. Taylor Bachrach introduced that municipalities were unable to run deficits and so they were facing the reality of cutbacks and serious cuts to the services that Canadians depend on. Currently, The Federation of Canadian Municipalities and mayors across Canada have called for emergency financial relief for the municipal sector. Since they were very vital to the recovery of the cities under the Covid-19 situation, the government was working with the provinces and the cities, to ensure that it was able to support this order of government that could deliver the vast majority of services to Canadians with very little financial means.


Meeting participants began by going over the logistics of recruiting participants, particularly through departmental mailing lists. They then moved onto discussing a new role, the instructor, who would help experimental participants figure out their intentions. This would eliminate a pre-written set of goals for the participants. Participants also discussed how the schema would incorporate other information, like choosing movies, and how more complex actions, like that of purchasing goods, could be incorporated into the source-path-goal schema. Finally, the participants concluded that an SPG schema of a different kind, one that can transfer previously acquired information, may be more helpful. The meeting concluded with the discussion of a new meeting time.


Marketing motioned for the idea of the sample sensor, which is something like a sample speaker, which has the function of voice recognition, and can help switch channels on hearing the direction of users. But this idea was abandoned because of unnecessity and expensiveness.


The specialist CAMHS element would move to the CAMHS network. The whole-school approach had already been settled in the Government while the programme had constructed a relative connection.


The remote control should be made dependable and of medium size. In terms of industrial design, the user interface can be made into face-plates, and the material should be plastic as it is the lightest.


PhD F explained the difference between acoustic features and acoustic events. Acoustic features are what linguists talk about whereas acoustic events are measurable properties of the acoustic signal, like its height.


Industrial Designer thought they were making multiple varieties of button colours which made people confused. So Project Manager suggested that each unit would only have one colour on each button. To avoid confusion, the group agreed to have up to three colours for the buttons.


Industrial Designer first recommended adding a special beeping button on the TV set to remind users of where the remote controls were, but the plan was deemed impractical concerning TV sets that were not designed by them. Then Project Manager suggested whistle tracking and was approved by all the conferees as an original improvement.


Voice recognition would be a major selling point as it was unusual and there were no remotes that had this function in the same price range. Another selling point would be its appearance as it would be the cutest remote control. The snail image could be used as a visual attraction. Practicality would not be one of its special features because all competition would feature this.


Marketing talks about the adoption of some latest trends and latest fashion updates on the remote control. She thought it important that the control looks fancy for targeted young users, like having the LCD screen, vivid colors, and cool shape, and the last model of the company is comparatively functional.


When discussing the priority to take care of the vulnerable children, Julie Morgan mentioned that they would set out an expanded definition for the local authorities to have a clear idea about who and where to lay the stress. What's more, according to her claim, they had done a good job to guarantee that the children's mental states would be individually monitored. As for those staff who would monitor the children, they should hold a meeting every week to follow up with each other and check whether there occurred something new worth attention.


He suggested that they could develop a remote control which moves around the room, so that the customer does not need to get up to pick up the remote in the other room. However, he also made clear that it is only an idea for the future.


Industrial Designer desired to make the remote with most used buttons so that the remote was friendly to users. Unnecessary buttons should be behind some kind of protection so that they only can be seen when needed. Instead of a big size, the remote control should be the normal size with the least amount of buttons.


Marketing made a presentation on  important aspects the team need to pay attention to concerning the remote control market. A most important aspect is its look and feel, so that the remote control has to look and feel fancier to meet customer's demands. The second point is that it should be technologically innovative. And then they found that the decisions the team had already made on interface didn't match the first two points that Marketing had raised. Then they discussed the Bluetooth function which was turned down and on the kinetic provision of energy. User Interface suggested using squeezable rubber which could be an energy generator. The third point that Marketing raised was easy to use. She suggested that next year's fashion would be fruits and vegetables so the team had the idea of making some buttons into fruit shapes. Regarding the color of the control, Project Manager had the idea of marketing the control in different colors for different groups of people like iPod.


The User Interface put forward to add an extra function to the remote control to make it be able to hide some features and display a clear menu. The Project Manager was in favor of this design for that it would be easy to find those really essential functions on the menu more easily.


According to the introduction of the opposition party, it has the power to introduce supply day motions and test government confidence. And the opposition party hoped that through this regime, Canada would take stronger diplomatic action on Hong Kong and gave more support for 300,000 Canadians living there. The Minister of Foreign Affairs promised that the Canada government would be continuing to raise voices to stand up for the people of Hong Kong.


Project Manager asked the team members give personal introductions respectively to get acquainted with each other, and then introduced a new remote control project. Before discussing the product-related issues, the manager asked the members to get acquainted with the SMARTboards for further presentation and information sharing work by drawing in turns. After the drawing session, the manager reemphasized the program target and required the remote control to possess with a user-familiarized feature. Other group members voiced out additional design aspects, including usability and lightness. Finally, the team agreed on both the selling and the production price.


Through a series of previous adjustments, the cost of the new remote controls had been effectively reduced. The team then decided to use some of the remaining cost budget to add another design to the new remotes. After discussion, the team thought it might be a good idea to have the slogan on the front because there was obviously more space there and the current slogan was not in an ideal place. With this little change, the overall cost of the new remote each went up to twelve Euros fifty, still under the budget limit.


Efforts by speaker mn005 are in progress to detect overlapping speech. For a single transcribed meeting, speaker mn005 reported approximately 300 cases of overlap. Future work will involve manually deriving time marks from sections of overlapping speech for the same meeting, and then experimenting with different measures, e.g. energy increase, to determine a set of acoustically salient features for identifying speaker overlap.


Marketing mentioned that the research found it would be costly for the speech design and suggested considering LCD screens. Industrial Design suggested that they would consider both and see what they could find. The group all agreed on it.pressing the button.


User Interface proposed to reconsider the necessity of adopting a display in consideration of two factors. One was that the television screen already made a big display, the other was that the cost-efficiency of a display was doubtful. In view of the cost constraint, sacrificing the display feature could be a reasonable option. Project Manager then asked Marketing to conduct research on this subject before making the final decision about the adoption of the display.


The team agreed that the prototype had a moderate appearance and it really depended on the individual taste of each customer. Some might find the device really fancy. However, the function that enabled the user to design for its own front look stood out since this could add value to users' favour towards personalities. The team also came to an agreement that the remote control's relevant buttons were prominently visible and relevant to each other, making the device easy to use. There was also a speaker incorporated into the device, solving the problem that sometimes it was out of sight. Meanwhile, the innovation of this device which was without a LCD display or any other technology required functions was not that satisfactory.


The whole meeting was focused on the functional design of the new remote control project. First of all, Marketing, User Interface, and Industrial Designer each gave a presentation about user requirements, technical function design, and working design respectively. Then, Project Manager announced some amendments to project requirements, which automatically rejected some of the previous assumptions and aroused further discussion about design and functionality with people above 40 as target customers.


The group discussed plans and concerns regarding the architecture of SmartKom, its proposed modules, and the types of interactions expected to take place between modules. The meeting was largely focused on SmartKom's decision making capacity and how to adapt this functionality to the tourist information domain. The group set a date for assessing SmartKom plans.


Marketing believed that the remote control should be: fashionable; technologically innovative; easy to use; suitable for the customer; not complicated; functional; not inclined to cause RSI. Project Manager agreed and added that it should not take long to learn to use.


Meilyr Rowlands thought it was a fairly clear good news to see the improvements on the PISA results in maths, which could be attributed to the new GCSE mathematics numeracy. Also they agreed it was a good news story to see much more mathematics knowledge to be applied in a problem-solving situation. With regard to the effects of schools, Meilyr Rowlands held that the school had a larger effect on mathematics and science than reading.


The professor expressed that the team should not recycle backed up disk space and explained the rate at which they could acquire disks. He was surprised that burned CD's wear out after a year or two. He thought that putting the data on tape was a good idea.


Kirsty Williams admitted that the crossing and moves were happening and did not deny the evidence as Sian Gwenllian implied. On the contrary, he believed that the reason behind the crossing was complicated and hard to quantify. He exemplified some of them: the eagerness to adjust to the English system, the nature of the offer (the combination of the A-Levels that institution offered), etc. In conclusion, Kirsty Williams believed that no effective evidence could demonstrate that the avoidance of the baccalaureate was the sole driver for the students choices to move to other areas.


According to Kirsty, all exams were cancelled, but year 11 and 13 would be given a grade. That was because those years and those grades were gateway qualifications, and they were points of movement in the education system. Therefore, it was really important for those students that they were not disadvantaged in any way by not being able to receive a grade that helps them to make a decision as a qualifying step into what they would do next. Actually, they could make sure that their standards were maintained by actually having that modulation across that UK. So, the children could have real confidence.


The professor thought that they were constrained by the shortage of data in the backend. Bigger companies had massive amounts of data to train their models. He recalled that they had been playing with the states in the back-end, but the results had not been too fruitful.


Janet Finch-Saunders worried about the narrowing of the curriculum at Key Stage 4. Kirsty Williams assured her that the skill challenge certificate actually ensured a broad variety of choices available. He added that the Qualifications Wales had reviewed into the qualification to see whether the teachers were too onerous and if there was any duplication in students' examinations. As for the Welsh learners who chose England institutions instead of Welsh ones, Kirsty Williams explained that the reasons behind might be various and hard to quantify.


The team had started moving to XML as their general format to standardize their data. Though, there is still concern about the limitations of XML. The participants noted that sometimes the mic of one subject catches sound from another. They also discussed implementing tools to help participants know when the quality of their audio is bad.


The user interface designer recommended to have a screen with a backlight which could change colours and to put all the options into this screen so that few buttons were needed and users would find it easy to use. As for the material, titanium was preferred because it was unbreakable and baby-proof. The user interface designer also suggested making the power and volume control fully automatic.


The team gathered some ideas on how they could further improve the model, perhaps by focusing more so on MSG and multi-band. The professor iterated that the task was pretty hard, and their model was still not good enough for a real system. The team was generally excited about the Aurora data, as it was more realistic, and about further pursuing the task.


The existing net for voice-unvoice had three outputs, voice, unvoice, and silence. It took fifteen features as inputs. The team discussed how energy measures could be incorporated to improve performance on this task. The nets took around a day to train, so the team could run more experiments. The current performance on the task was unsatisfactory.


Project Manager announced that the remote control ought to be only suitable for TV, and that teletext as an outmoded function should be skipped, while internet access becomes an optional function. Meanwhile, target customers are specified as 40 plus. However, Project Manager's requirements of no teletext and design simplification were effectively challenged and rebutted by Marketing. As a result, the focus on the project was changed from design to functionality.


Use of dissimilar microphones adds an extra, unwanted variable to individual speaker recordings. Similarly, differences in the type of recording equipment used and the manner in which microphones are worn by speakers causes problems for the transcription effort.


During their discussion of the button layout, the first agreement they achieved was that the power button should be put on the top of the remote control. Then the Project Manager proposed to put it on the right that most people are right-handed, however, considering that a few would be left-handed, the Marketing put forward to design some special additions to meet such need.


The marketing expert thought there were three things making the product marketable - the features, the characteristics, and the corporation behind the product. One drawback of the product was that it was only targeted at TV, but the marketing believed this limitation wouldn't be noteworthy in comparison with other good features. Besides, the marketing proposed that the product should be upgradable but the project manager pointed out the risk of doing that.


The government highlighted special schools as a successful sector in the annual report, since over 90 per cent of them were good or better. Schools cared for children with emotional and behavioural difficulties were improving and they worked as a team instead of competing with each other. Although the independent special sector over the cycle was slightly different, the overal achievements were significant.


Firstly, User Interface drew a spider because he thought it was easy to draw in the corner of a whiteboard and spiders can move all about the web in two dimensions. Marketing drew a friendly panther because it was fast and black, so it could hide very easily. And it looked powerful and strong. Industrial Designer drew an elephant because it's peculiar about the way they walk. And they are the biggest terrestrial animal.


PhD D explained that voice-unvoice net took fifteen base features and three features of R as inputs. The R features were the variance of the difference between the two spectrums, variance of the auto-correlation function, and the first coefficient of the auto-correlation function. This method, however, was not that much better than the more typical method that the professor recalled.


User interface said that they could make this wave in specific frequency to avoid interfering with other devices. A password could also be put inside the wave in case that two neighbours had the same remote controls. If two devices were trying to go to communicate with the TV set, then the wave with more energy was chosen.


Industrial Designer suggested they should also look up popularity among the 25 to 35 years old age group if they looked into a stylish design. Marketing said it was 70% popular among this age group and thought this age group didn't have much economic burden so the remote price should not be unaffordable. User Interface supplemented that their remote might not function with the old TV. Therefore, the group decided to include both 15 to 25 and 25 to 35 years old age group into consideration.


This was meeting number 22 of the House of Commons Special Committee on the COVD-19 Pandemic. Firstly, members were given the chance to present their petitions. Secondly, the meeting proceeded to statements by some members. The third part, the major section, was the questioning of ministers. These questions were closely related to the Canadian government and society during the pandemic period. To be more specific, they included economic updates, systemic racism, the impact of international affairs, financial issues, the situation of veterans and the disabled, and employment and work situation nationwide.


According to Mr. Blaney, there's a Welsh Government HE Brexit working group, providing early summaries of the risks and the potential impact, in terms of the exposure of the sector to EU-sourced funding. Beyond that, the working group will also share the work that institutions are doing individually to look at how they would respond to different scenarios, which hasn't been implemented yet.


Marketing summarized the market research results and revealed that fifty percent users only use ten percent of the buttons. So the team proposed to reduce buttons to a minimum. Marketing believed that speech recognition could also contribute to this regard. User Interface showed a user-centred remote control and an engineering-centred one and preferred the user-centred one as it had fewer buttons and was easier to hold.


Industrial Designer wanted an LCD that could be applied to show program information, which was also trendy if colored. However, this idea was disagreed by other group members for the following reasons. First, a big LCD screen was too expensive. Second, most users read the information on TV and the Internet instead of the remote. Next, LCD had a vulnerable feature and was also too functional to match the basic design concept. Moreover, for User Interface suggested that the design required only one specialty, LCD was not that necessary when the group had already decided on the docking station.


Her amendments 1 and 4 would place a duty on Welsh Ministers to provide information and increase awareness about the change in the law. She had already made a commitment to a high-intensity awareness-raising campaign over about six years from Royal Assent if the Bill passed. She thought amendments 1A to 1E which relate to the duty to raise awareness were not necessary. In specific, amendment 1A was open-ended on promoting public awareness. All the raised points would be considered by another group, but she thought the level of the detail on the face of the Bill was not needed, and same reasons for amendment 1B and 1D. As for the amendment 1C which was about how to raise concerns, the Deputy Minister thought the safeguarding was everybody's business. In conclusion, she asked for the support of members for amendments 1 and 4, and asked to reject amendments 1A to 1E, as those were unnecessary provisions in terms of what the awareness-raising duty needed to achieve.


Marketing thought that remote control should be targeted at a low market. First, considering the tight budget, Marketing described the product as a cheap-end remote control, which would hardly gain the advantage over competitors in functionality. By saying that she implied that a high-end RC for a high market should be equipped with sophisticated functions, which were not possessed by a low-cost one anyway. Therefore, only a low market may want to buy it.


The team ultimately decided that the remote control should be designed to be waterproof, and it should be too powerful for a baby to eat. In addition, its function should also allow children to use their own voice control, in case the child is not tall enough to use. And it would be better to be able to have a child lock.


Dr Frank Atherton was first asked about legislations in the draft plan and their ideas on those things. The use of legislation was affirmed by Dr Frank Atherton but it was just one of the tools they have got, they need to employ them all. Then as to sports infrastructure, Dr Frank Atherton, though not an expert in that field, also supported it as a good one to pursue not only in schools but also in a broadening area.


In order to meet with the annual trend of fruity elements, the Industrial Designer suggested making the remote control in a banana shape. For one thing, it would be related to the annual fashion trend and for another, the yellow color would satisfy the youth. However, in case the banana shape would be out of fashion next year, it might not be a perfect solution.


All the other three group members did not agree with the Project Manager that they thought they did not do enough as a team. Even though it might be because this was only a virtual project which did not require an actual building, as the Marketing said, it should be a much longer time of actual work rather than just imagining the remote control through three hours' meetings.


Kirsty Williams AM mentioned that those children would have currently been receiving school counselling, and there would be more children receiving support. In this case, the additional money will be made available to local authorities to be able to increase and ramp up services to support children and families with intense need. Moreover, how to adapt patterns to deliver these services to the pandemic situation would be discussed. For instance, video or telephone methods would be adopted and one to one basis help patterns would also be included to support professional learning for counsellings.


The Deputy Minister had provided assurance that she agreed with the importance placed on the post-implementation review, and made a commitment to bring forward a Government amendment to put a duty to undertake a post-implementation review on the face of the Bill. Amendment 2C would require Welsh Minister to prepare and lay before the Assembly a report on the effect of their promotion of public awareness before section 1 is commenced, and the Deputy Minister thought this amendment was unnecessary and was in conflict with what she thought was a priority for the implementation of this Bill. The Deputy Minister did not want to support amendments 2A, 2C and 2E to 2K, because these amendments made little difference in terms of practical effect to what they had in the Bill already. In conclusion, she would ask members to reject the non-Government amendments and agree to amendments 2 and 5.


The User Interface proposed to give up the idea of a hand-held model and give its way to the voice recognition system, while the Industrial Design thought it would be necessary for remote control to be able to be held in hand. Industrial Design believed that not all the people would always use the voice recognition system and most of the time they have to take it by hand. For most, voice recognition is only a kind of addition. If the remote control was not in a suitable shape, like something round, it would bring some troubles.


Industrial Designer thought that a remote with more accessible buttons can make it easier to use, as some of the buttons of the remote he used were too small to press. He also suggested that the remote needs to be robust, so that it would not be damaged easily.


The Professor thought that the experiments were pretty simple, so computational power was not really a problem. He also thought that it would be okay to increase the states from six to nine.


Firstly, he thought that dolphin represents freedom. Besides, he loved the ocean a lot and swam a lot in his spare time.


Basically, the dissent mainly came from Marketing. According to Marketing, the company failed to offer enough options to the customers (only three options). Therefore, customers were limited. By limiting the customers, sales and profits would definitely be limited as well. However, User Interface disagreed with him because he believed that electronics were not the same as other products, for example chocolate. There were not always quite so many choices in electronics.


According to Kirsty Williams, they are actively looking at whether they should try and find a way of collecting this data. They can't force parents to divulge information that is a matter for them. But there is an active discussion going on at the moment about whether they could create a dataset where people divulge this information and we can then track the children through. They can't see the educational attainment of looked-after children just being a job of education. It has to be a job of social services and the health service as well.


With a working prototype, the user interface designer displayed the appearance and the texture of the product, which was fruit-like and spongy. As for the material, they still wanted to use titanium because it was the most modern material that they could select. Then the industrial designer gave some technical specifications on the product, including instructions on buttons, LCD display, speech recognition and location finder.


After conducting a survey, the marketing found power button was not used often because users used it only once per session while the channel selection was very often used which made it quite important. Volume was not often used but people wanted to have control on volume and that made sense. What much less often used was the settings, such as audio settings, screen settings, even teletext and channel settings.


Postdoc A thought that the original headphones had low gain, so he purchased new earphones. He informed the team that he just bought them from Cambridge SoundWorks down the street. They always have them in stock.


The meeting began with a presentation on the prototype by Industrial Designer and User Interface and a double curved rubber prototype with anti-RSI buttons was displayed. Next, they discussed the cost of the remote which only cost ten seventy euros a unit and well under the budget of twelve fifty. Then, the team evaluated the remote according to seven criteria and it passed with flying colours as three criteria scored a one and others no more than three. Finally, the meeting ended with team building and a wrap-up, which Project Marketing concluded that the novel remote fit all criteria and the team did a great job.


The first presentation mainly covered component design. Industrial Designer introduced what should be the case, the buttons, the circuit board with the chip and the battery made of and what they should look like. The second presentation was about properties and materials. User Interface advocated an LCD with backlighting in a small device. The third presentation was trend watching given by Marketing. So Marketing suggested space materials or the LCD screen because they stressed fashion, simplicity and technology innovation. Also, Marketing didn't suggest that spongy material was necessary.


Marketing made evaluation criteria. The first thing was fancy look and feel, the second was innovativeness, the third was easy to use. Then Marketing asked Industrial Designer and User Interface to give scores towards two versions of the prototype according to the scale. Both Industrial Designer and User Interface gave three or four points to look and feel, six points to innovativeness and also six points to easy to use. The team decided to make the remote control without LCD and to improve the design to make it fancy. They would have all the functions in the same set, but some functions, like speech recognition, would be optional. The team would look into the shape and material of the set.


PhD B was conducting an experiment to improve the backend performance of the Aurora recognizer. The goal was recognizing the HTK system by challenging the canonical paradigm.


There are already 30 subjects lined up and more are expected to be recruited off campus. It was agreed that making subjects select from categories of tasks, such as "big place", "service", etc. could provide a better range of data. The duration of each dialogue will probably be no more than 10 minutes.


Even though there was no specific figure that could be provided, they had only been recruiting about 65 percent of targets.Therefore, there was a lot of work they have to do about this. First, they were making sure that their ITE provision was world class, and recently they were through an accreditation process for a new ITE provision that would start in the next academic year. Second, they had looked at financial incentives.Third, they were embarking on their first national ITE recruitment marketing exercise. Kirsty Williams mentioned that this was not a unique issue in Wales, but a common issue across the globe. Money was not the only reason that prevented people from getting onto these courses. What's more, from next year, they would be going to have their unique part-time PGCE route into qualification, which allowed people to bring their outside world experience into teaching, and this could increase the diversity in their teaching workforce.


The Minister of Seniors clarified that his office recognizes that seniors are in great need. The minister explained that those receiving OAS and GIS are getting payments of $200 and $300 respectively. The minister was insistent that this was not an insignificant amount.


The minister argued that it was very important to be transparent with our investments and the government would look at the investments and the figures every day and be transparent about it. The minister promised that Canada would have a good economy in the future, and the government would not raise taxes after the crisis to tackle the deficit. Hence, the opposition party demanded a regular economy update.


The opposition party claimed that people across Canada were appalled by the situation in care homes which left seniors suffering. The minister explained that the government was fully aware of the situation. The minister promised that they would fully play their role federal level with advice, with guidance, with support and with investments. They were going to have those conversations about how best they can improve the care for all seniors.


According to Kirsty and Huw, the real question was how was it that they didn't identify those schools. Since these schools were not being identified early enough, there was a need to do something urgently about these concerns, particularly in secondary schools. Even though they had identified them as needing that extra help, they were not moving at pace away from that system. In Steve's opinion, the importance lied on "What about the schools that are sliding in that direction?" And it brought together what they knew from Estyn, but also, local authorities had knowledge of their schools, and so did consortia. They had got to be better at bringing those together.


Now the group was engaging with Steve and other officials on agreeing a plan, but also, that plan was there to support the successful implementation of the curriculum. Based on the words from Kirsty, they were very clear about the roles and responsibilities in the middle tier in this phrase following the publication. Now they had moved into a relentless focus on implementation. Basically, everything now was an emphasis on successful implementation.


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


Making a recyclable and colourful case out of plastic that was strong without using harmful materials was proposed. For the components, there would be a resistor, a capacitor, a diode transistor, resonator, and if possible, a rechargeable battery. Also, it should have an integrated circuit board that was highly sophisticated, temperature resistant and inexpensive. Furthermore, it was hoped that there would be a timer or alarm. For the working design, morse code would be relayed to the generator for amplification after buttons were pressed. The team thought push buttons were better than scroll wheel as the former was more practical and cheap.


Industrial Designer gave a presentation about his findings on each of the components of the remote control. Then the team discussed the power supply, buttons, circuit board and speech recognition system of the remote. They finally agreed that they should use a kinetic power supply, simple push buttons and a simple circuit board. And a finder feature rather than a voice recognition feature would be a better choice.


This was the second meeting with functional design discussion purpose. Firstly, the group gave three individual presentations on working design, technical functions and functional requirements. They mentioned the importance of the fancy appeal, the practicality and the quality of components. Then, the group had a discussion about general requirements on the remote control. The group decided to market the remote as a separate product and focused on the user-friendly as well as simplicity, instead of too much technological advancement. Also, they agreed to target on income group and would add extra functionalities like keep lost and rechargeable stations for the remote control.


This meeting was primarily concerned with the design process and specific designing requirements of the remote control. Project Manager first introduced the goal of the new remote control project as to be original, trendy and user-friendly so as to bear an advantage over competitive products. Then three steps of the design process were respectively introduced and explained by Project Manager, and drawings of favourite animals then followed as an imagination-inspiring activity. According to Project Manager, the fifty-million-Euro financial objective of the project would be achieved at a production cost lower than 12.5 Euros and a twofold selling price. Competitiveness-endowing requirements for remote control design were then proposed and carefully discussed.


Dawn Bowden AM asked for Dr Frank Atherton's ideas on community sport infrastructure of new schools, and pointed out that Welsh Government has ploughed a huge amount of money into the twenty-first century schools programme. At the end of speech, Dawn Bowden AM thought they should be making sure that they have those kinds of facilities so that they become accessible to the wider public. At the same time, Dawn Bowden AM gave advice on making a recommendation of sports infrastructure to Dr Frank Atherton.


To save time, speaker mn005 will only mark the sample of transcribed data for regions of overlapping speech, as opposed to marking all acoustic events. The digits extraction task will be delegated to whomever is working on acoustics for the Meeting Recorder project.


After discussing the functions, the group thought they were approaching the high-end market, so they could push up the price. In spite of that, the project manager supposed the profit expectation might not be so important as opening up a new market and promoting their brand. In the end, they agreed to price the product at thirty-five to fifty Euros.


The team wanted to know if OGI was using CVS to access the code. It seemed that they were not. No one there was working on Aurora. Though, they were expecting Sunil to grab it and start working on Aurora once he returned.


The group discussed the final remote concepts after three presentations. Therefore, they decided to have a small-sized remote with the speaker, the power with the chip on print, a transparent case, and rubber incorporated into the case. However, they would not go for an LCD partly because they needed an input device instead of output and the cost would be added.


The marketing hoped there would be some features on the control to display the name. Industrial designer also wondered about whether the time setting for turning on TV was useful. While the project manager thought that if time was added, a bigger display would be required, which was not useful for users.


Project Manager introduced that the prototype incorporated fashion trends that people prefer fancy looking products like fruit and vegetable. After That, User Interface presented the product which looked like a banana and was bright yellow except for the blue button. The style was as simple as possible in order to fit the customers' need for simplicity. Also, the product could be curved and used both-handed with advanced chips hidden inside, which seemed quite creative and identical to iPod features. In the end, Industrial Designer commented that the remote control could be smaller in size.


The meeting occurred close to the finalization of the model for Aurora. The team had put together a model and was tweaking it to see what achieves best performance. The professor suggested that it was time to make some decisions, have several constants, and then test other theories on remaining features. The neural net, for instance, was yet to come together. Still, the model was second in ranking for the task, behind the leader by only one point. The evaluation criteria for the tasks was still not completely clear, but the team seemed to be doing well.


The discussion about the questions of minister started with the issue of economic update, and then it turned to discuss the federal support for the provinces. The following topics were systemic racism. Hon. Chrystia Freeland emphasized that systemic racism had existed in all federal institutions in Canada.


Industrial Designer and User Interface gave a presentation about two versions of the prototype, one with and one without LCD. They both had a speech recognition system, microphone, a few number of buttons, rechargeable batteries and different modules. The prototype with LCD was too expensive, while the other one was quite cheap. Marketing made evaluation criteria. The scale included fancy look and feel, innovativeness and easy to use. Then Marketing asked Industrial Designer and User Interface to give scores towards two versions of the prototype according to the scale. Both Industrial Designer and User Interface gave average points to look and feel, high points to innovativeness and to easy to use. At the end of the meeting, group members did project evaluation. They felt good about leadership and teamwork.


According to the technical specifications given by the industrial designer, the product was very flexible because users could add buttons. Users could use the jog wheel to select whichever option on the LCD and do the power control. There was also an LCD control, so users could switch on the LCD display if they wanted to use LCD and use a normal button if they didn't want to use LCD. What's more, the controller had the functions of speech recognition and location finder.


Industrial Designer thought they lost the locator while keeping other features. But Project Manager responded that they were going to have a beeper. User Interface supplemented that it was not like a sample speaker, but it would beep so they still had the locator.


The Welsh and UK Governments had followed a demand-driven approach to the childcare market, with subsidies mainly given to working parents, which was a mistake and should be more universally available. The demand-driven approach was based more on certain factors: geographic spread in terms of it being more universal, and whether that's the right way. It was hard for children to mix with peers from different backgrounds and age groups? Next, some areas had traditionally got more childcare anyway because they had traditionally more demand in those areas, so there was not a level playing field to start from.


According to Julie Morgan, the group had been in close cooperation with the fostering organizations in Welsh to guarantee the children in need. To people's relief, the fostering organizations were running well with enough staff and equipment during the pandemic so that the children could enjoy good care there. What's more, the fostering organizations prolonged their helpline time in case some emergencies would happen. Other support measures, say, the fund for the foster carers, would be followed up.


In terms of the material used on the device, the team decided to use only one material, either rubber or plastic instead of both or titanium. Moreover, the team agreed to discard the joystick but keep the LCD and advance chips,to make it still favored by the young market. Lastly, a normal color would be incorporated instead of a special color to decrease the cost by at least half Euro.


Industrial Designer proposed to specify the location of the microphone. Project Manager and User Interface disagreed with each other. Project Manager thought the microphone should be under the flip so that users could easily turn off the voice recognition, whereas User Interface insisted that microphone should be on the side so that the remote control could be activated by voice even when out of reach.


Project Manager gave each team member different tasks. Project Manager asked Industrial Designer to look at the working design, User Interface to work on the technical functions and Marketing to be responsible for user requirements. User Interface recommended to achieve some agreement on whether to use the new remote control for multiple systems, and User Interface also asked whether to use a text screen or bluetooth. Besides, Project Manager also demanded that everyone in the group should individually ponder the most important thing in this project from their own perspective.


According to Hefin, some regional consortia services performed really highly, but there were others that needed to improve. Those consortia shall be seen as working together on a national approach, but being delivered on a regional basis. Also, it had evolved over time, and they were constantly looking for optimum delivery. By taking Education through Regional Working as an example, they had pointed out that ERW as well as the Education Achievement Service EAS was constituted in a different way to the Central South Consortium. They delivered on a regional basis. They would continue to discuss with ERW what was the optimal way and continued to cooperate with the constituent local authorities about how that shall be organized.


Hefin David AM raised a question concerning the date schools might reopen since there had been an increase in the number of students who had returned to some schools. However, Kirsty Williams AM had not been given an exact date by the chief medical officer and the public had to wait for the advice of the medical and scientific advisers. Now, the only thing for certain was the five principles that had been published earlier that day concerning the school reopening issues.


Marketing presented on market trends and suggested strategies including innovation in a fancy look and feel of the remote control, the European fashion theme in fruit and vegetable shapes as well as a soft and spongy material trend.


Marketing thought the market included all kinds of people no matter if they were old and young. So it would be better if their aim was the whole world and Britain. Users Interface suggested that market aim should take the remote control style into consideration about. For instance in Britain, people had many things to do with TV. But normal TVs were not like this.


The remote fits all criteria and it was something novel. Also, it was marketable in the sense that other remotes would give users repetitive strain injury but this remote would do the complete opposite. Project Manager concluded that everyone had done a great job, both individually and as a team. Though there was some heated discussion during designing the remote, the communication was still great. For the technology that had been used during meetings, Marketing thought it was quite cool.


Members expressed concern that pandemic related restrictions were harming businesses and that the government was not reopening businesses and providing stimulus in an effective fashion. Emphasis was placed on reopening fishing, restoring agricultural supply chains, and supporting farmers. Many members inquired as to why the government had only furnished $252 million of the promised $2.6 billion fund to maintain food security in Canada.


In Hefin's opinion, they took ERW as an example because it did things differently with regard to the four consortia. They were interested in the effectiveness of that organization to deliver for children and for teachers since ERW had got particular challenges. What they were seeing the national consortia do is developing a national approach to school improvement services. What's more, according to Hefin, the regional consortia were not a beast of the Government; they were a beast of the local authorities that had worked together to create a school improvement service that met their needs.


There were 12 percent of secondary schools under Estonian review and 11 percent of them were in special measures. He worried that these schools lacked enough support and fundings to adapt to the new curriculum reform and face greater difficulties.


The double curved prototype with anti-RSI buttons was ergonomic and comfortable to the size of the hand and to touch as it was made of rubber. The prototype was also easy and convenient to use as the important keys were right at the fingers. On the other hand, it brought fashion to electronics as the remote was offered in colours of black, yellow, blue and red, which contained fruit and vegetable elements. It was innovative and looked different so it would stand out from other remotes in the market.


Carol Shillabeer answered Lynne Neagle's question by introducing the progress of the in-patient care programme and the challenge of the workforce. Carol personally recommended employing more psychology assistants as part of a skill mix team and indicated communities of practice to make the best use of the resource. Finally, as for the language, there was an agreement on the use of the Welsh language and the need for enough Welsh language practitioners to respond to vulnerable people.


Project Manager gave a brief introduction of the new remote control project for television sets. During team building, team members got to know each other by drawing their favorite animals with technical devices. When it came to the financial targets, Project Manager planned that the remote control would be priced at 25 Euros on the premise of the 12.5-Euro production cost, and the profit is targeted at 50 million Euros. The market range would be international. Then, ideas about new technical features of the remote control were proposed, such as radio waves and bluetooth, in order to distinguish the product from current ones. Finally, some general arrangements for the next meeting about user requirements and technical functions were made by Project Manager and each team member was required to think on the most important thing from their own point of view.


Industrial Designer suggested that the remote could be attached to a charger base, and the lost remote would beep if a button on the base was pushed. This might add to their costs, and would require a rechargeable battery for the remote. Project Manager later proposed that the speech recognition could be part of the lost-and-found device. This would allow the remote to beep when hearing a certain phrase.


Julie Morgan certainly plans to expand the programme, which is believed to be a demand-led approach. Last they were managing it within the normal budgetary process, developing a more integrated approach towards the early years, and had got the system of inspection to ensure that. Because some of their provision was universally available in certain areas. Hence historically that was definitely true of the programme.


The team decided that it would be a good idea to purchase headphones. They also ordered a hundred gigabytes of disk space though they thought an extra eighteen for backup would not be a bad idea. This was good because the team was currently constrained by space.


Project Manager initiated the final meeting on the topic of detailed design. Industrial Designer and User Interface each gave a presentation on the prototype and discussed the evaluation criteria, especially that of microphone and buttons. Next, the group did calculations on the budget as well as the profit goal before Marketing showed the challenges of this project in terms of budget control and reaching the profit target. The group then discussed using the internet for promotion and ordering and drop-shipping the product to the customer's residence. Finally, the subject moved to product evaluation by putting the prototype on the market and analyzing the feedback. The group discussed whether they should spare time for the redesign process before releasing the product to the market. Then Industrial Designer put up a strategy to do effective user research by choosing sports seasons.


The team arrived at the conclusion that they only needed sufficient breadth, not every possible language. As long as most languages used over cellular phones were covered, they were fine. The similarity between different languages would help them cover more ground with fewer languages.


Project Manager thought that the interface design was still not intuitive and useful enough for now. Marketing agreed and pointed out that the present target group might be too large. Marketing suggested that the team should figure out specifically for whom they intended to design the interface in case the customers were confused about the remote control and got dissatisfied.


The meeting mainly discussed the design of functions and the appearances. On function wise, the group had a little argument whether to make the product multi-functional or single functional. In the end they went with single-functional because it was more focused and affordable. They also removed some of the functions being discussed such as LCD screen, teletext and voice recognition, because they wanted to stick with a simplistic design. On design wise, the group finalized on the colour yellow as their product appearance and they chose illuminated buttons as one of their highlights. They also included some humanitarian factors into the design.


The industrial designer thought that the solar cell was necessary for speech recognition. He mentioned that the daylight was enough for recharging. And he supposed that the remote control would be in the room which was usually lightful.


PhD C informed the team that the Eurospeech paper had been accepted and the conference would take place in Aalborg Denmark in September. The team was making progress on on-line normalization, taking two approaches.


The User Interface proposed to make most of the buttons in a round shape which altogether located in a triangle. In the middle of the triangle, there would be a square button and the four buttons next to it would be respectively the channel control and the volume control, just as all the other remote controls.


The meeting contains discussions of the main focus on early childhood education and care programmes.The team were working with local authorities and healthboards to see how to work together and simplify the Welsh Government's approach, looking forward to encouraging the development of the foundation phase in non-maintained settings. Addressing big differences in the amount of early childhood education in different parts of Wales, the team answered the needs of the families and the children in certain areas. Then the meeting discussed the demand-driven approach to the childcare market, asserting there was no evidence of cutting on the foundation. Then the team answered the question about the demand of Welsh language skills by obviously differing degrees and hiring workers of different backgrounds. When talking about the competition with existing formal childcare, the team believed it was expected. Then the team alleged they would do more investment and reviews on the programme, and discussed how to tackle the technical issues with HMRC. Next the extra cost was not yet defined, the price tag was announced to be £2.5million. Finally, the meeting discussed the necessity of adding eligibility checks to the beginning of the programme, and the details on the sample "Flying Start'' programme.


Project Manager gave the team members a brief introduction of the new remote control project, then the team started an ice breaking game by drawing their favourite animals. The expected selling price of the remote control is 25 Euros and the production costs would be limited to twelve and a half Euro per unit. Marketing plan would depend on overhead costs. The team agreed that the remote needs to be robust, and they wanted it to be a device for all with accessible buttons. Project Manager suggested it to be only a television remote control instead of a multi-functional one.


Marketing wrote down a few evaluation criteria, based on previous marketing strategy, on the latest trends, and on user preferences. There was a seven-point scale rating for each criterion. The team would give comments to each feature listed and agree on the final rating.


Project manager introduced the financial information: 25 Euro selling price and 12.5 Euro production cost. PM then went on to elaborate that the target market would primarily consist of Europe and North America. PM expressed that a profit aim of 50 million Euros, which could be achieved by selling 4 million of these remotes, was achievable.


Industrial Designer proposed to conduct a product evaluation by putting the prototype on the market to get feedback from the users. User Interface pointed out that there should be time for redesign while Project Manager insisted that no more change would be made on the original design and improvements made according to evaluation results would be on the second generation. What's more, Industrial Designer came up with a strategy to do additional user research by choosing the sports season and working with motion pictures.


Grad G thought that it would be important to collect seat information in the key files to know where someone was sitting. This would be useful when people had to be bleeped out upon being heard in someone else's microphone. Grad G wanted to figure out what seating arrangements led to other participants' voices showing up in the microphone.


Julie Morgan thought the cost of training would be minimal as teachers had had courses about childcare issues and something about the bill would be absorbed into that without any additional fund.


Industrial Designer suggested that simple push buttons just require a simple chip, so that would keep the cost of the remote down.


There were four people in the project team and each one introduced to each other on the team role. Project Manager introduced the project was about designing a remote control. After that, Project Manager explained the work division for each person and how they would present in the coming meetings.


They drafted several potential product names, including "banana", "RC deluxe", "real reactor", "triple RC", etc. They concentrated on adjusting the "triple RC", and eventually decided on "triple R". The group thought this name was cool, and especially looked cool when it was printed in the front, and it was catchy.


Hon. Chrystia Freeland was thankful for the farmers who worked hard to feed the country and was pleased that partisanship had been pushed aside to fight the coronavirus. She stood by the idea that no Canadian should have to work in an unsafe environment and put her trust in the Food Inspection Agency to regulate working conditions.


The meeting focused on the results from the existing model, speeding up the backend for feature direction, and a few tangential topics being developed for future exploration. The team was unsure why their model was not performing as well as they expected it to, and they suspected that their smaller dataset might be at fault. They also discussed how they could improve the performance of the backend model by improving feature detection. The meeting ended with some students sharing the tangential fields they were exploring and a brief discussion on the different pronunciations of zero.


The User Interface showed the pictures of one kind of remotes with scrolls on it, working as the middle buttons. If the consumers wanted to find a certain item, they just needed to scroll it and when they reached the required ones, they pressed the middle of the scroll. Although the team was not satisfied with the colour, shape and buttons of the existing, they all agreed that the function of a scroll was a good idea.


Julie Morgan first paid tribute to the work done by social workers. Then, Morgan gave examples from the professionals that there had not been a big rise of referrals, but a slight increase at the beginning which was estimated to fall over time. Moreover, he indicated that a baseline would work in the future to see what exactly happened.


The group discussed the collection status for a set of connected digits recordings that are nearly complete and ready to be trained on a recognizer. Anticipated results were discussed in reference to results obtained for other digits corpora, i.e. Aurora and TI-digits. The group also considered the prospect of performing fine-grained acoustic-phonetic analyses on a subset of Meeting Recorder digits or Switchboard data. Pre-segmentation manipulations that allow for the segmentation of channel-specific speech/non-speech portions of the signal and the distinction of foreground versus background speech were discussed. Finally, speaker fe008 and fe016 reported on new efforts to adapt transcriptions to the needs of the SRI recognizer, including conventions for encoding acronyms, numbers, ambient noise, and unidentified inbreaths.


User Interface proposed that there should be six or seven buttons for the same number of categories. Users could use these buttons to choose hundreds of channels. These buttons could be navigation buttons.


In this part, the meeting talked about the affordability of £4.50 amount (the universal amount) and add-ups for some cases. The group separately discussed the situation of families of different incomes levels and different areas.


They want to keep the cost under 12.50 euros by controlling the materials, and they want to sell them internationally for 25 euros, with a target of 50 million euros worldwide. So they wanted the remote to be compatible with most TVS in the world, or at least all the TVS they make.


User Interface said the locking function is a novel idea and a good inspiration. He had never seen a locking functionality. But User Interface thought that the locking function might be unnecessary, while Project Manager thought it probably should be easy to be realized in a physical form like a cover, a switch or a flip thing.


Industrial Designer believed that the working design did not involve specialised technologies and therefore would not cost much or be difficult. User Interface questioned this statement by arguing that the technical functions depended on the user requirements. The team discussed this point and then agreed that the remote control should be for novice users. Later on, Project Manager suggested going through market research results delivered by Marketing and the new requirements shown by themself. These clarified the directions of design and then the team agreed to include simple functions, certain large buttons, etc.


PhD A thought that a good VAD could not be made without baseline features. On-line normalization was not helping the model when spectral subtraction was already in play. The short filters were performing as well as the long ones, and the model was doing well on the well-matched case. Despite mixed results, the shorter latency was a positive sign.


User Interface preferred a more user-friendly remote with nice big buttons and limited number of buttons. She also gave her suggestions about the symbol and colour of the remote. Then, they discussed the number of buttons on the remote.


The professor thought it mattered how fast someone was speaking since the model was getting a spectrum over different kinds of speech sounds. He was skeptical that changing speech rate was the solution, though he thought it was worth looking into. His solution was collecting more samplings of different phones for when people speak slower.


Firstly, User Interface introduced the prototype of remote control based on the previous discussion of its function. The prototype was a pretty simple design in a mango shape with the company logo on it and innovative functions like the plus button. Secondly, Marketing designed an evaluation test under the guidance of both the conceptual as well as functional meetings and the team gave one to seven points to each feature of the product to see if the prototype would meet the original requirements and goals. Thirdly, the team calculated the cost of the prototype and found that the most expensive part was the use of kinetic. But the team decided to use regular chips and cheap materials, which made the budget under control. Lastly, the team gave positive feedback on the project and the process.


On a 7-point scale from true to false, Project Manager first rated the remote at 1 point for it being undoubtedly fashionable. Yet Industrial Designer immediately objected to this. After Marketing seconded Project Manager's evaluation, Industrial Designer hesitatingly gave it a 2, saying it's not fashionable enough at the moment. When Marketing and Project Manager defended their views by pointing out it's only a prototype they're seeing, Industrial Designer insisted on his objection and rerated it at 3 or 4. This disagreement finally presented the average rating of 2 for the remote on the fashion criterion.


There would be only 40 per cent to 50 per cent of families met a threshold for the support, while more people still needed help. Therefore, focusing on the families who reached a threshold is not good enough, and the programme should tackle all of them.


Because in general the early adopters of a new device were young people and teletext was used less among the young than the elderly. Plus, the young found it very relevant to have speech recognition in their remote control so that they could just tell the controller what they wanted instead of zapping.


Andrew Clark thought the inconsistency reflected the different ways that universities treat the skill challenge certificates and the baccalaureate, whose prime focus was individual ability. He added that the universities' attitudes had changed significantly since there was a graded qualification, for even those who did not make the baccalaureate part of their offer considered it a valuable sign that young people were prepared to go to university.


Eluned Morgan had been actively engaging with the FE sector and he found that those colleges are much localized, with only 71 EU apprenticeships and staff. The group was working hard to ensure that these 71 people would safely go through such a chaotic period. What's also important was that as for FE, the relationship between the apprenticeships and the working community mattered much, which means they might have to improve the relationship between these 71 EU people and the local community.


The team thought that doing a cheating experiment, where they try to identify the most important features, would be useful. Even if the results were not as great as they expected them to be, it could still be a valuable addition to their work. They thought that they could normalize the features using a sigmoid and try this for their work.


When discussing features to make the remote control trendy, User Interface recommended to keep the remote control simple in order to gain a whole market and to use a standard as it was aimed at an international market.


User Interface asked a question that whether it would be a stand-alone unit that they are going to be selling. So Project Manager answered that they should decide which kind of remote control they want to go, if it should be a specific remote control to some specific device, or if it should be a universal one. User Interface responded that they need to design the product to fit the expecting twenty-five Euro based on the requirement. Project Manager agreed and invited group mates to input ideas in the next meeting.


This is the last meeting of the design group. At first, Industrial Designer introduced the remote control prototype to the group. It included buttons for channel change, power, menu and also had a slider for volume, an infra-red section and a microphone. The cover was interchangeable with a company logo on it. It was also made of a rubbery material and could stretch over. Then Project Manager went through the costs of various aspects of design and argued that a slight compromise could be made as the remote control would be a fashion accessory and have interchangeable covers. After that, Marketing specifically summed up the evaluation criteria of remote control. Finally, Project Manager concluded and praised the teamwork results.


As a consequence of proposing to remove the power for a Welsh Minister to make an order for commencement, the power to make transitory, transitional or saving provisions in connection with section 1 of the Bill coming into force would also be removed. Amendment 2 would add the existing power back onto the face of the Bill where amendments 7 and 8 removed it, and amendment 6 would bring the power into force the day after Royal Assent. These amendments were technical in nature and while she acknowledged that the Constitutional and Legislative Affairs Committee raised the issue of what procedure should be applied, their report did not call for any change to no procedure being applied. The absence of an Assembly procedure did not mean that Ministers' decisions in relation to transitional powers cannot be scrutinized by the Assembly. In conclusion, she encouraged members to reject amendment 3A.


While discussing their presentations on the appearance design, both the Industrial Design and the Marketing put forward to use rubber as the material rather than other things like wood. The Industrial Design agreed to choose rubber because it can stand beat, drop and extrusion.


According to Kirsty, no formal decision had been made. They were facing unprecedented circumstances. The normal rules had to change and, those organizations, they would need them to be providing youth services for children when they were back to normal, and they wouldn't want to do anything that would undermine their ability to do that. Their call to the youth service was a call to arms, though.


The team talked about using a battery on the remote control and discussed different types of energy, they would find out if the kinetic metal was sufficient to provide enough energy. As to the shape of the remote control, there should be a curve which would fit into users' hands when they grab the remote control. They discussed material used to design the case of remote control, such as plastic or titanium, but they were still discussing which one should be used.


The meeting concerned mostly status updates and logistical affairs. The participants learned that the transcription status was good. The progress on the DARPA demo was also good, except the interface did not look as pretty as they had wanted to. The storage disks, which they had been waiting for, had finally arrived, but the person responsible for installing them was going on break. The participants also decided to schedule less meetings, so they have updates to report when they do. The meeting ended with technical discussion about model performance.


The team was filtering out white noise from the digit task using LPC. The concern was that LPC was not a great representation of speech. The LPC was adding degradation.


When Projected Manager announced that the group should decide on the target group, Marketing thought that with a tight budget, the functionality of the product would be greatly restricted. Hence, only a low market could be reached. However, after a brief discussion about LCR screen, Project Manager brought back the idea of universal remote control, and the group reached a consensus on the feasibility of designing a basic universal remote control at a low cost.


Hon. Ahmed Hussen mentioned that the government had announced a one-time of $600 for persons with disabilities to address the expense in need. However, this bill was refused by the Conservatives yet it was expected to be passed in one day.


Industrial Designer argued that compared with the traditional energy source - double A batteries in a replaceable little compartment, wind-up was a quite interesting concept for the remote control. But this concept didn't get along well with the possible banana theme of the remote control. Therefore, the kinetic energy source would be a better choice.


Project Manager first introduced the budget and broke it down to parts like batteries, electronics, case material supplements, interface type and then button supplements. The team agreed that the push button, integrated scroll-wheel and the LCD display cost a lot but case materials were all the same. In this case, the team decided to discard the LCD since the information it could transmit could also be simply displayed on the screen. As for the recognition feature, the team decided to make it a big deal to be alarming. And lastly, the product would be pure yellow instead of a blue button.


The team would add some software functionalities on programmable chips browsing by the content or things like that. They would use the FPGA for the functionalities and use chargers rather than batteries.


When the group found that it was hard to balance between the cost and functions, the Project Manager proposed to give up the voice recognition and keep the touch screen. But according to Marketing’s research, even if the interviewees were not informed of the touch screen, they showed a great preference for voice recognition. So just for catering to popular tastes, the Marketing insisted that they should keep the voice recognition in any case.


Marketing recalled the market trend and collected images based on the device the team had designed. For each of Marketing's questions, the team would give one to seven points to each feature of the product and the lower the points the better the feature.


When both Marketing and Industrial Designer had admitted to being allergic to cats, Project Manager attempted to propose a situation where they actually were around one. After this proposal was decisively rejected by User Interface, Project Manager talked about his/her experience with a roommate, proving that one could be used to cats if they were around them for a long time. Yet Marketing and Industrial Designer insisted on the severity of their allergies.


Unlike the last meeting, the team further discussed the details about the features they wanted on their new remote controls this time. First, they unanimously agreed that their design shall be the combination of beauty and fashion. Second, after looking at all the other designs existing in the market now, they drew a conclusion that the new remotes would be standardly shaped and children-friendly. Lastly, most of the time was devoted to the discussion about the details of the desired features: rechargeable battery, blue main body and yellow slogan, fruits based shapes and sponge latex rubber material.


The group decided on the final prototype features to include extra functionalities such as scroll wheels, the speaker, and the base station that could fit a banana-shaped object. The group also agreed to need an RF to beep, wheels to control the volumes and channels, turbo button, and switch-on button. Besides, the group confirmed no LCD and ASR for the remote control.


First, Sally Jenkins made it clear that very few numbers of families where they had long-term intervention currently. What they do was they go in for short periods in families' lives to work with them and their family members. Their aim was to get in and get out. In terms of long-term intervention, they wanted families to find their own solutions. To conclude, this was not a punitive approach from social services.


Julie Morgan thought that in terms of the Welsh language standards that the Minister had to use, there would be some difficulties in them doing the programme. For instance this would be delivered via HMRC with the English offer, which would cause difficulties for the Welsh offer. So, they wanted something more flexible.


As an extension to the previous discussion, this meeting basically dealt with the functional design of the remote control, for which User Interface, Marketing and Industrial Design respectively gave presentations on user requirement specification, subjects' main frustrations and expectations for remote controls and technical design. Subsequent to individual presentations, Project Manager then presented the new requirements from the management board, based on which the decisions on the needed functions of the remote control were made and the pre-arrangement of the next meeting was subsequently told.


Kirsty Williams thinks that it's absolutely crucial that we track performance. Where they weren't tracking pupils at all, initial investment in PDG was used to establish these systems within schools. One of the outcomes from the schools challenge review, and one of the lessons learnt was the importance of individual tracking of pupils throughout their school career. But they can't dictate a single system.


Huw David thought there were no unintended consequences if the Bill was implemented carefully with the right resources. Then he talked about the increasing number of looked-after children in Wales, and Sally Jenkins helped to explain the reasons for this. Alastair Birch thought that there would be an increased focus on the UNCRC. In addition, children need to be part of the discussion in terms of children having a discussion around this point, which would affect them. Improving the voice of the child in any educational context would be good and powerful for children, which would be a positive unintended consequence, and it could reinvigorate some of the voice of the child discussion within various contexts.


There were two reasons. The first was that the unit price of each remote control was relatively high (twenty-five Euros). Therefore, in order to increase customers' willingness to spend so much money on one single remote control, the features must be satisfying and good enough. The second was the competition since there were other TV remote controls in the market. The new TV remote controls shall be special and different from the rest so as to attract customers.


The group was focusing on the potential influence to the Wales education system due to the Brexit. The members mentioned many institutions like the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales and showed that these institutions had taken much action to deal with the problems. Some of the institutions funded higher education in Wales, and others might help those universities find a better way to transit. What the group aimed at was cooperating with the institutions and help the situation become better.


Marketing commented on the overall process as fairly satisfying, since they had control over most of the detailed design of the remote, how it should be advanced as well as fashionable. As for teamwork, Industrial Designer and User Interface thought they worked well together, and Project Manager praised the team for being congenial. They also appreciated many things that were available to them, including digital pens, wireless laptops, a shared network, dual microphones, and Big Brother. They agreed that many new ideas were developed as well.


Project Manager suggested designing a remote control useful for multiple devices such as TV and home stereo. Marketing disagreed by pointing out that TV was mostly used with VCR or DVD player or recorders, functions for which should be included, rather than with a stereo. Against this point, Project Manager argued that DVD players and home cinema sets usually doubled as stereo hi-fi sets. The discussion took a turn when the User interface disagreed and suggested designing a remote control only for televisions. Project Manager insisted on including other functions as most remote controls did and everyone was on board in the end.


User Interface thought that sometimes the speech recognition interrupted people when there was a dialogue on the TV program. Unless the remote control could be made to not have to pick up any more, that would be a useful feature of speech recognition. Project Manager was not keen on it because Project Manager was not confident they would have a product that was able to work. However, Marketing thought that the speech recognition technology would be cheaper than the LCD and people must buy it with twenty-five Euros.


New pilots in Cardiff and Newport would start in September. This was to learn the experiences of the high-cost areas. If it was shown that the rate in these areas was more expensive, then the team would come back and discuss it with the committee. But Huw Irranca-Davies emphasized that the project should start first, rather than assuming a higher rate necessary.


The kinetic was both useful and convenient. Users only had to move it instead of putting it into a recharger or changing the batteries, and it could also be used easily in dark places. More importantly, it could be a good selling point that doing exercises when users were watching the TV helps the remote control work.


This was a Children, Young People and Education Committee, and it was the scrutiny session with a focus on higher and further education. This whole meeting was conducted in a question and answer format. They firstly started with a question related to the trend of secondary school teachers recruiting situations, and the reasons for this, and the steps they had taken to mitigate this trend. Then they had a discussion on the decision made by the education workforce council not to accredit the University of South Wales with the ability to deliver teacher training. After this, there were some questions and answers related to the reform and reconfiguration of the post-16 education sector, equality of opportunity and university mergers. In addition, the parity of esteem between academic and vocational post-16 education and funding allocation were also discussed. Then they talked about the regional skills partnerships and the pay dispute situation. At last, they shared some opinions on 'legalised cheating'.


Marketing suggested putting a small LCD screen on top of the remote but Industrial Designer against it because a remote should be started with the power button and User Interface thought it would be unnatural to put the LCD on the top. Then, Marketing mentioned that would be where users' handball might be. So Industrial Designer thought they could put the whole interface a bit down so there would be room for the interface.


Kirsty Williams admitted that the grading system was rigorous and equivalent to A-Level. A UCAS tariff associated with it, and it was the individual ability that was evaluated by the system. About the resit issue, the committee agreed that WJEC and the Qualifications Wales was supposed to regulate this.


Marketing presented the user requirements. The market research results were from 100 people. 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 users would not take time mastering the remote control. Most buttons were thus unused, and teletext was outdated now. Besides, Marketing expressed a negative view on the incorporation of voice recognition.


Hon. Patty Hajdu introduced that contact tracing was an important part of managing any outbreak. In fact, the government had been looking at a number of ways to support increased contact tracing across the country, including working with provinces and territories to boost their capacity through human resources and volunteer organizations. However, it was challenged that the Privacy Commissioner had suggested if there was also a crisis of confidence. And it was assured that particular attention must be paid to transparency, privacy and ethical concerns to ensure privacy.


Project Manager first brought up teletext as a well-known feature of televisions, but then admitted that it was becoming obsolete due to the development of the internet, though it was still used. Under this circumstance, Project Manager put forward two options, one of which was to stop at the television phase, and the other was to go further to the phase of the recording device. Then he started to talk about target customers in the first place and laid teletext issues on the table.


To achieve greater uniformity in across-speaker recording conditions, the group decided to purchase three additional head-mounted microphones.


Meilyr Rowlands indicated that it was quite difficult to identify the cause and the effect in terms of the PDG but what was clear was that there had been some improvements by now. Using the same measuring method, in 2017, there was a re-widening of the attainment gap between pupils on free school meals and those not on free school meals. However, currently secondary schools were driven overly by performance indicators and the result turned out to be satisfying, though the exact result still remained unclear.


This meeting focused on the conception of the functional design of the new remote control. Industrial Designer evaluated several components in the technical design of the product and gave his personal preferences, especially on the chip and the material to use in the construction. Then User Interface presented a general layout of the functionality, the design of which should follow two principles: simpleness and customizability. Marketing, in his turn, explained the current market trend based on the results of his questionnaires on user requirements. The group also discussed where the remote control would be manufactured by taking into account the price of the local labour force.


Industrial Designer thought that the vegetable and fruit theme could be applied with a more abstract design, like stripping it down to basic shapes or curves. Also, as a result of market research, design development should stick to this theme rather than moving to animals.


Kirsty admitted that they were now in a strange situation. What they were trying to work to was that they would have ongoing provision. Also, they were trying to create a system that would run uniformly. Such was a rapidly-evolving problem and the scale was something that they had not seen in 100 years. Therefore, they would have to evolve and iterate things as they went. Now they were worried about displacement activities. During the holidays, every head teacher would be in school on Monday with their staff.


Marketing mentioned that market research emphasized technology innovation which was the ease of use in the functionality. So Marketing suggested when they focused on the trend of fruit and vegetable themes, they should know how to fit in with something which was not specifically electronics and how to quickly create a remote in fruit shape.


Mr. Blake Richards suggested that Tourism Week in Canada, the annual celebration was a time to recognize the contributions and experiences of Canada's tourism industry. The ongoing coronavirus crisis had closed provincial and international borders to recreational travel, and tourism operators from coast to coast had been among the first and hardest hit due to the government-mandated lockdowns. The 1.8 million Canadians whose jobs depended on a thriving tourism sector were counting on it.


The team wanted to figure out how roles would be connected to actions. The thought that their current XML schema forced the model to look up, requiring the whole body of the model. The new idea they came up with was to create a parallel intention oriented specification in addition to the pure schema, which would allow for a more flexible schema.


The professor generally liked MSG because of its different temporal properties. Nonetheless, he recognized that it might not be practical to explore it further due to time constraints. At this point, he thought that there were no clear solutions to the challenges they were facing, but there was still plenty to do.


User Interface presented the function, customizability and appearance (colour, material and shape) of the remote control. Then the group discussed the location of the microphone as well as the weight and shape of the buttons. Project Manager suggested that the microphone should be under the flip while User Interface argued that it should be on the side. User Interface also proposed that the buttons should be made in egg shape and of plasticine.


The team thought that the project manager showed good leadership and that was a must during the teamwork process. Besides, they had a really great project design experience and everyone had put efforts into the process and gave opinions to design a good remote control. After all, they have learned a lot from each other as well as the overall customers' tastes within the industry.


Because they had to make sure that more able and talented children do well, who are mainly from poor backgrounds.


Project Manager expected to have a remote control permanently available. Industrial Designer proposed to have a rechargeable battery or a battery dock, while Project Manager preferred a disposable one. Then Industrial Designer came up with a combination of both solar and conventional batteries.


Marketing drew a butterfly because she had seen one the day before, which she considered as the symbol of spring arriving. It was the prettiest butterfly she had ever seen out in the wild, and this was quite unusual where they lived. Mistaking it as a dead leaf at first, she saw the butterfly land next to her, showing as colourful and exotica body as that of a peacock. Marketing appreciated her encounter with the butterfly very much.


User Interface suggested that the remote control could be made of plastics because it was the lightest and proposed that they could make the remote control different, maybe with face-plates.


Julie Morgan insisted that some of their provision was universally available in certain areas. Hence historically that was definitely true of the programme. Then they were certainly planning to expand the programme, which is believed to be a demand-led approach. Last they were managing it within the normal budgetary process, developing a more integrated approach towards the early years, and had got the system of inspection to ensure that.


User Interface suggested a simple plastic remote control in yellow and black with few big buttons which could correspond to a screen on the television screen. But this idea of having a screen on the television screen was faced by Industrial Designer's objection. Industrial Designer preferred scroll buttons, and a simple but functional menu on the screen, and simple push buttons. In the end, they chose a push button for better feasibility.


In fact, Dr Frank Atherton did not give an exact opinion on providing a more varied diet for pupils. It would be something needing consultation and consideration, then they might decide whether it was worth carrying out. The quality of food, rather than preparing school meals or not, was more important to Dr Frank Atherton.


This discussion started with Janet Finch-Saunders and Janet Finch-Saunders spoke to both amendments in this group. She said the reason she wanted these two amendments be there because she genuinely did not believe that the Deputy Minister had envisioned what or even estimated the likely cost to be borne by the organizations, and certainly their local authorities and health boards and impact of the Bill was going to have. Then the Deputy Minister responded to this. She said they had done a thorough and extremely diligent job of considering the potential impacts of the Bill before introduction. She thought all the evidence had shown that they did not anticipate that there would be a huge increase of a demand for funding, so she encouraged members to reject these amendments, which she thought were not necessary. At last, they took a vote on amendments 11 and 12, and ended up with rejecting amendments 11 and 12, and agreeing with amendment 4 and 5.


Janet Finch-Saunders spoke to amendments 2C, excluding 2D, to 2K, which related to the Deputy Minister's amendment 2 on preparing a published report on the effect of abolishing the defense of reasonable punishment. Amendments 2E to 2K outlined what they would expect to be within the report. Amendment 2C requested that the Welsh Government prepared a report on the awareness-raising campaign and laid it before the Assembly before section 1 commenced. It was important that they were fully apprised of the awareness-raising campaign's impact, which was elaborated under amendment 2D.


When Industrial Designer mentioned that LCD was basically feedback from television and questioned the necessity of LCD, Marketing suggested that they could integrate with the television then it could come up with new information about what was on, and users could just see that on the remote rather than TV itself so that users won't get interrupted by viewing pleasure. Also, Marketing thought the group could have a minimalist remote control so that users could flip it open if they wanted to mess about it.


The team thought that a certain amount of rewiring was necessary to ensure a stable power supply. They also wanted to ensure that their equipment would not be plugged out. One way to solve this would be to build some sort of cabinet and collect the cables in one spot to avoid clutter.


The professor thought that the results in the experiment without silence detection were okay as well. He thought some sort of weighted measure between other features should result in good performance.


The professor pointed out that zero is said in two ways, "O" and "Zero." So, when recording digits, people are told which way to pronounce it.


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. Then they talked about the conflicts between technology and price. The application of some high technology such as speech recognition and solar energy would add to the cost. Therefore, to ensure the low price of the remote control, they had to think it over when deciding whether to use speech recognition. It was also difficult for the group to select between solar energy and charger. Although solar energy was fancy and environmentally friendly, the cost was much higher than using a charger. Finally, Marketing suggested making the remote control a dock to place it.


Titanium case was trendy and modern. Users would be happy with it. But the team was still not very sure about the material of the case.


Since the team is familiar with Perl and a flat file format is easier, it was suggested that the cost of learning a new framework, like ATLAS, might be too high. It was suggested that ATLAS be used for the external file representation initially, and if it seems suitable, then it should be adopted in its entirety. P files were also discussed but the problem with them was that they could still get pretty big.


As the data collection is going into its second phase, more complex scenarios will be used to generate more intricate dialogues. Subjects can be recruited from within the Psychology department students, since such participation in experiments is compulsory in their syllabus.


Setting up a microphone array and performing video recordings (in a possible collaboration with NIST) are problematic due to the types of changes in infrastructure they require.