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Text: Project Manager: Is that alright now? <unk>vocalsound<unk> Okay. Sorry? Okay, everybody all set to start the meeting? Okay, we've got half an hour for this one um to uh discuss the um functional design. Marketing: Could you plug me in? User Interface: <unk>vocalsound<unk> Marketing: <unk>vocalsound<unk> Okay. Thanks. Project Manager: All ready to go? Okay. Marketing: Okay. <unk>vocalsound<unk> Project Manager: Um so hopefully you've all been working away, and I've put the minutes of the last meeting in the project folder. Um so I guess just to to recap on uh what we did last time. Um kind of uh got to know each other a little bit and uh got familiar with all the equipment and started to discuss um a bit about the project, you know, cost-wise how much how much money we had to s Um just want to tell you that you have three new requirements, which is the <unk>disfmarker<unk> The first one <unk>vocalsound<unk> is that um uh the company's decided that teletext is outdated uh because of how popular the internet is. Nobody uses teletext very much anymore, so we don't really need to consider that in the functionality of the <unk>disfmarker<unk> of the remote control. Marketing: 'Kay. Project Manager: Um they've also suggested that we um we only use the remote control to control the television, not the V_C_R_, D_V_D_ or anything else. I think the worry is that if the project becomes too complex then it'll affect um how long it takes us to get it into into production, the time to market. So um, we're just gonna keep it simple and it'll just control the T_V_. Marketing: Okay. Project Manager: And the other thing was that the company want the corporate colour and slogan to be implemented in the new design. Um I'm not entirely sure what the corporate colour is. It might be yellow, because there seems to be Question: Summarize the whole meeting. Answer:

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

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Text: The Chair (Hon. Anthony Rota (NipissingTimiskaming, Lib.)): I call the meeting to order. Welcome to the third meeting of the House of Commons Special Committee on the COVID-19 Pandemic. Pursuant to the order of reference of Monday, April20, the committee is meeting for the purposes of considering ministerial announcements, allowing members to present petitions, and questioning ministers of the crown, including the Prime Minister, in respect of the COVID-19 pandemic. I understand there's an agreement to observe a moment of silence in memory of the six members of the Canadian Armed Forces who lost their lives last Wednesday in a helicopter crash off the coast of Greece. We'll return to order. Colleagues, we meet today to continue our discussion about how our country is dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic. As we do, Canadians, like everyone around the world, are doing their best to live their lives until things improve. Meanwhile, as we look towards the future, I believe that it is also important to remember our past and to continue to mark the important moments in our shared history. At this very moment, the Dominion Carillonneur, Dr. Andrea McCrady, is performing a special recital to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Netherlands by the Canadian Forces. In May 1945, Canadian Forces played a major role in liberating the Dutch people from Nazi occupation. May 5 is now a national holiday in the Netherlands that commemorates the event and the great friendship that now exists between our two countries. Today's meeting is taking place by video conference. The proceedings will be made available via the House of Commons website. Please be aware that the webcast will always show the person speaking rather than the entire committee. Let me remind you that, as in the House or in committee, members may not take photographs of their colleagues or film the proceedings. In order to facilitate the work of our interpreters and ensure orderly meetings, I will outline a few rules. Interpretation of this video conference will be done as it is at normal committee meetings and in the House. At the bottom of your screen, you can choose floor, English or French Question: Summarize the discussion about introduction of petitions and prioritization of government matters. Answer:

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

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Text: The Chair (Hon. Anthony Rota (NipissingTimiskaming, Lib.)): I call the meeting to order. Welcome to the third meeting of the House of Commons Special Committee on the COVID-19 Pandemic. Pursuant to the order of reference of Monday, April20, the committee is meeting for the purposes of considering ministerial announcements, allowing members to present petitions, and questioning ministers of the crown, including the Prime Minister, in respect of the COVID-19 pandemic. I understand there's an agreement to observe a moment of silence in memory of the six members of the Canadian Armed Forces who lost their lives last Wednesday in a helicopter crash off the coast of Greece. We'll return to order. Colleagues, we meet today to continue our discussion about how our country is dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic. As we do, Canadians, like everyone around the world, are doing their best to live their lives until things improve. Meanwhile, as we look towards the future, I believe that it is also important to remember our past and to continue to mark the important moments in our shared history. At this very moment, the Dominion Carillonneur, Dr. Andrea McCrady, is performing a special recital to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Netherlands by the Canadian Forces. In May 1945, Canadian Forces played a major role in liberating the Dutch people from Nazi occupation. May 5 is now a national holiday in the Netherlands that commemorates the event and the great friendship that now exists between our two countries. Today's meeting is taking place by video conference. The proceedings will be made available via the House of Commons website. Please be aware that the webcast will always show the person speaking rather than the entire committee. Let me remind you that, as in the House or in committee, members may not take photographs of their colleagues or film the proceedings. In order to facilitate the work of our interpreters and ensure orderly meetings, I will outline a few rules. Interpretation of this video conference will be done as it is at normal committee meetings and in the House. At the bottom of your screen, you can choose floor, Question: What did Paul-Hus think about the introduction of petitions and prioritization of government matters? Answer:

Mr. Paul-Hus thought that the government should not take firearms away from law-abiding Canadian citizens. He inquired into how the government would take guns from criminals. He also expressed concern about the quick release of dangerous criminals during the pandemic and China's intransparency with regards to the pandemic.

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Text: The Chair (Hon. Anthony Rota (NipissingTimiskaming, Lib.)): I call the meeting to order. Welcome to the third meeting of the House of Commons Special Committee on the COVID-19 Pandemic. Pursuant to the order of reference of Monday, April20, the committee is meeting for the purposes of considering ministerial announcements, allowing members to present petitions, and questioning ministers of the crown, including the Prime Minister, in respect of the COVID-19 pandemic. I understand there's an agreement to observe a moment of silence in memory of the six members of the Canadian Armed Forces who lost their lives last Wednesday in a helicopter crash off the coast of Greece. We'll return to order. Colleagues, we meet today to continue our discussion about how our country is dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic. As we do, Canadians, like everyone around the world, are doing their best to live their lives until things improve. Meanwhile, as we look towards the future, I believe that it is also important to remember our past and to continue to mark the important moments in our shared history. At this very moment, the Dominion Carillonneur, Dr. Andrea McCrady, is performing a special recital to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Netherlands by the Canadian Forces. In May 1945, Canadian Forces played a major role in liberating the Dutch people from Nazi occupation. May 5 is now a national holiday in the Netherlands that commemorates the event and the great friendship that now exists between our two countries. Today's meeting is taking place by video conference. The proceedings will be made available via the House of Commons website. Please be aware that the webcast will always show the person speaking rather than the entire committee. Let me remind you that, as in the House or in committee, members may not take photographs of their colleagues or film the proceedings. In order to facilitate the work of our interpreters and ensure orderly meetings, I will outline a few rules. Interpretation of this video conference will be done as it is at normal committee meetings and in the House. At the bottom of your Question: Did the Prime Minister agree with Mr. Pierre Paul-Hus when talking about introduction of petitions and prioritization of government matters? Answer:

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

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Text: The Chair (Hon. Anthony Rota (NipissingTimiskaming, Lib.)): I call the meeting to order. Welcome to the third meeting of the House of Commons Special Committee on the COVID-19 Pandemic. Pursuant to the order of reference of Monday, April20, the committee is meeting for the purposes of considering ministerial announcements, allowing members to present petitions, and questioning ministers of the crown, including the Prime Minister, in respect of the COVID-19 pandemic. I understand there's an agreement to observe a moment of silence in memory of the six members of the Canadian Armed Forces who lost their lives last Wednesday in a helicopter crash off the coast of Greece. We'll return to order. Colleagues, we meet today to continue our discussion about how our country is dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic. As we do, Canadians, like everyone around the world, are doing their best to live their lives until things improve. Meanwhile, as we look towards the future, I believe that it is also important to remember our past and to continue to mark the important moments in our shared history. At this very moment, the Dominion Carillonneur, Dr. Andrea McCrady, is performing a special recital to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Netherlands by the Canadian Forces. In May 1945, Canadian Forces played a major role in liberating the Dutch people from Nazi occupation. May 5 is now a national holiday in the Netherlands that commemorates the event and the great friendship that now exists between our two countries. Today's meeting is taking place by video conference. The proceedings will be made available via the House of Commons website. Please be aware that the webcast will always show the person speaking rather than the entire committee. Let me remind you that, as in the House or in committee, members may not take photographs of their colleagues or film the proceedings. In order to facilitate the work of our interpreters and ensure orderly meetings, I will outline a few rules. Interpretation of this video conference will be done as it is at normal committee meetings and in the House. At the bottom of your screen, you can choose floor, English or French. As Question: Summarize the discussion about restoring Canadian businesses during the pandemic. Answer:

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.

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Text: The Chair (Hon. Anthony Rota (NipissingTimiskaming, Lib.)): I call the meeting to order. Welcome to the third meeting of the House of Commons Special Committee on the COVID-19 Pandemic. Pursuant to the order of reference of Monday, April20, the committee is meeting for the purposes of considering ministerial announcements, allowing members to present petitions, and questioning ministers of the crown, including the Prime Minister, in respect of the COVID-19 pandemic. I understand there's an agreement to observe a moment of silence in memory of the six members of the Canadian Armed Forces who lost their lives last Wednesday in a helicopter crash off the coast of Greece. We'll return to order. Colleagues, we meet today to continue our discussion about how our country is dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic. As we do, Canadians, like everyone around the world, are doing their best to live their lives until things improve. Meanwhile, as we look towards the future, I believe that it is also important to remember our past and to continue to mark the important moments in our shared history. At this very moment, the Dominion Carillonneur, Dr. Andrea McCrady, is performing a special recital to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Netherlands by the Canadian Forces. In May 1945, Canadian Forces played a major role in liberating the Dutch people from Nazi occupation. May 5 is now a national holiday in the Netherlands that commemorates the event and the great friendship that now exists between our two countries. Today's meeting is taking place by video conference. The proceedings will be made available via the House of Commons website. Please be aware that the webcast will always show the person speaking rather than the entire committee. Let me remind you that, as in the House or in committee, members may not take photographs of their colleagues or film the proceedings. In order to facilitate the work of our interpreters and ensure orderly meetings, I will outline a few rules. Interpretation of this video conference will be done as it is at normal committee meetings and in the House. At the bottom of your screen, you can choose floor, English or Question: What did Heather McPherson think about restoring Canadian businesses during the pandemic? Answer:

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

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Text: The Chair (Hon. Anthony Rota (NipissingTimiskaming, Lib.)): I call the meeting to order. Welcome to the third meeting of the House of Commons Special Committee on the COVID-19 Pandemic. Pursuant to the order of reference of Monday, April20, the committee is meeting for the purposes of considering ministerial announcements, allowing members to present petitions, and questioning ministers of the crown, including the Prime Minister, in respect of the COVID-19 pandemic. I understand there's an agreement to observe a moment of silence in memory of the six members of the Canadian Armed Forces who lost their lives last Wednesday in a helicopter crash off the coast of Greece. We'll return to order. Colleagues, we meet today to continue our discussion about how our country is dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic. As we do, Canadians, like everyone around the world, are doing their best to live their lives until things improve. Meanwhile, as we look towards the future, I believe that it is also important to remember our past and to continue to mark the important moments in our shared history. At this very moment, the Dominion Carillonneur, Dr. Andrea McCrady, is performing a special recital to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Netherlands by the Canadian Forces. In May 1945, Canadian Forces played a major role in liberating the Dutch people from Nazi occupation. May 5 is now a national holiday in the Netherlands that commemorates the event and the great friendship that now exists between our two countries. Today's meeting is taking place by video conference. The proceedings will be made available via the House of Commons website. Please be aware that the webcast will always show the person speaking rather than the entire committee. Let me remind you that, as in the House or in committee, members may not take photographs of their colleagues or film the proceedings. In order to facilitate the work of our interpreters and ensure orderly meetings, I will outline a few rules. Interpretation of this video conference will be done as it is at normal committee meetings and in the House. At the bottom of your screen, you can choose floor, Question: What did Chrystia Freeland think about restoring Canadian businesses during the pandemic? Answer:

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.

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Text: The Chair (Hon. Anthony Rota (NipissingTimiskaming, Lib.)): I call the meeting to order. Welcome to the third meeting of the House of Commons Special Committee on the COVID-19 Pandemic. Pursuant to the order of reference of Monday, April20, the committee is meeting for the purposes of considering ministerial announcements, allowing members to present petitions, and questioning ministers of the crown, including the Prime Minister, in respect of the COVID-19 pandemic. I understand there's an agreement to observe a moment of silence in memory of the six members of the Canadian Armed Forces who lost their lives last Wednesday in a helicopter crash off the coast of Greece. We'll return to order. Colleagues, we meet today to continue our discussion about how our country is dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic. As we do, Canadians, like everyone around the world, are doing their best to live their lives until things improve. Meanwhile, as we look towards the future, I believe that it is also important to remember our past and to continue to mark the important moments in our shared history. At this very moment, the Dominion Carillonneur, Dr. Andrea McCrady, is performing a special recital to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Netherlands by the Canadian Forces. In May 1945, Canadian Forces played a major role in liberating the Dutch people from Nazi occupation. May 5 is now a national holiday in the Netherlands that commemorates the event and the great friendship that now exists between our two countries. Today's meeting is taking place by video conference. The proceedings will be made available via the House of Commons website. Please be aware that the webcast will always show the person speaking rather than the entire committee. Let me remind you that, as in the House or in committee, members may not take photographs of their colleagues or film the proceedings. In order to facilitate the work of our interpreters and ensure orderly meetings, I will outline a few rules. Interpretation of this video conference will be done as it is at normal committee meetings and in the House. At the bottom of your screen, you can choose floor, English or French. As you have seen, I change as I am Question: Summarize the whole meeting. Answer:

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

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Text: Grad D: And we already got the crash out of the way. It did crash, so I feel much better, earlier. Professor F: Yeah. Postdoc E: Interesting. Hmm. Professor F: Will you get the door, and <unk>disfmarker<unk>? Grad D: OK, so um. Professor F: OK. You collected an agenda, huh? Grad D: I did collect an agenda. So I'm gonna go first. Mwa - ha - ha! It shouldn't take too long. Postdoc E: Yeah. Grad D: Um, so we're pretty much out of digits. We've gone once through the set. Um, so the only thing I have to do Professor F: No there's only ten. Grad D: Yeah, that's right. so I <unk>disfmarker<unk> I just have to go through them Professor F: Well, OK. Grad D: and uh pick out the ones that have problems, and either correct them or have them re - read. So we probably have like four or five more forms to be read, to be once through the set. I've also extracted out about an hour's worth. We have about two hours worth. I extracted out about an hour's worth which are the f digits with <unk>disfmarker<unk> for which whose speaker have speaker forms, have filled out speaker forms. Not everyone's filled out a speaker form. So I extracted one for speakers who have speaker forms and for meetings in which the " key " file and the transcript files are parsable. Some of the early key files, it looks like, were done by hand, and so they're not automatically parsable and I have to go back and fix those. So what that means is we have about an hour of transcribed digits that we can play with. Um, Liz <unk>disfmarker<unk> Professor F: So you think two <unk>disfmarker<unk> you think Question: Summarize what was said about digits form Answer:

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

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Text: Grad D: And we already got the crash out of the way. It did crash, so I feel much better, earlier. Professor F: Yeah. Postdoc E: Interesting. Hmm. Professor F: Will you get the door, and <unk>disfmarker<unk>? Grad D: OK, so um. Professor F: OK. You collected an agenda, huh? Grad D: I did collect an agenda. So I'm gonna go first. Mwa - ha - ha! It shouldn't take too long. Postdoc E: Yeah. Grad D: Um, so we're pretty much out of digits. We've gone once through the set. Um, so the only thing I have to do Professor F: No there's only ten. Grad D: Yeah, that's right. so I <unk>disfmarker<unk> I just have to go through them Professor F: Well, OK. Grad D: and uh pick out the ones that have problems, and either correct them or have them re - read. So we probably have like four or five more forms to be read, to be once through the set. I've also extracted out about an hour's worth. We have about two hours worth. I extracted out about an hour's worth which are the f digits with <unk>disfmarker<unk> for which whose speaker have speaker forms, have filled out speaker forms. Not everyone's filled out a speaker form. So I extracted one for speakers who have speaker forms and for meetings in which the " key " file and the transcript files are parsable. Some of the early key files, it looks like, were done by hand, and so they're not automatically parsable and I have to go back and fix those. So what that means is we have about an hour of transcribed digits that we can play with. Um, Liz <unk>disfmarker<unk> Professor F: So you think two <unk>disfmarker<unk> you think Question: What’s the status of digits data? Answer:

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

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Text: Grad D: And we already got the crash out of the way. It did crash, so I feel much better, earlier. Professor F: Yeah. Postdoc E: Interesting. Hmm. Professor F: Will you get the door, and <unk>disfmarker<unk>? Grad D: OK, so um. Professor F: OK. You collected an agenda, huh? Grad D: I did collect an agenda. So I'm gonna go first. Mwa - ha - ha! It shouldn't take too long. Postdoc E: Yeah. Grad D: Um, so we're pretty much out of digits. We've gone once through the set. Um, so the only thing I have to do Professor F: No there's only ten. Grad D: Yeah, that's right. so I <unk>disfmarker<unk> I just have to go through them Professor F: Well, OK. Grad D: and uh pick out the ones that have problems, and either correct them or have them re - read. So we probably have like four or five more forms to be read, to be once through the set. I've also extracted out about an hour's worth. We have about two hours worth. I extracted out about an hour's worth which are the f digits with <unk>disfmarker<unk> for which whose speaker have speaker forms, have filled out speaker forms. Not everyone's filled out a speaker form. So I extracted one for speakers who have speaker forms and for meetings in which the " key " file and the transcript files are parsable. Some of the early key files, it looks like, were done by hand, and so they're not automatically parsable and I have to go back and fix those. So what that means is we have about an hour of transcribed digits that we can play with. Um, Liz <unk>disfmarker<unk> Professor F: So you think two <unk>disfmarker<unk> you think Question: What additional assignments were proposed about the digits? Answer:

Future work may involve experimenting with the reading of digits in different prosodic groupings.

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Text: Grad D: And we already got the crash out of the way. It did crash, so I feel much better, earlier. Professor F: Yeah. Postdoc E: Interesting. Hmm. Professor F: Will you get the door, and <unk>disfmarker<unk>? Grad D: OK, so um. Professor F: OK. You collected an agenda, huh? Grad D: I did collect an agenda. So I'm gonna go first. Mwa - ha - ha! It shouldn't take too long. Postdoc E: Yeah. Grad D: Um, so we're pretty much out of digits. We've gone once through the set. Um, so the only thing I have to do Professor F: No there's only ten. Grad D: Yeah, that's right. so I <unk>disfmarker<unk> I just have to go through them Professor F: Well, OK. Grad D: and uh pick out the ones that have problems, and either correct them or have them re - read. So we probably have like four or five more forms to be read, to be once through the set. I've also extracted out about an hour's worth. We have about two hours worth. I extracted out about an hour's worth which are the f digits with <unk>disfmarker<unk> for which whose speaker have speaker forms, have filled out speaker forms. Not everyone's filled out a speaker form. So I extracted one for speakers who have speaker forms and for meetings in which the " key " file and the transcript files are parsable. Some of the early key files, it looks like, were done by hand, and so they're not automatically parsable and I have to go back and fix those. So what that means is we have about an hour of transcribed digits that we can play with. Um, Liz <unk>disfmarker<unk> Professor F: So you think two <unk>disfmarker<unk> you think two hours Question: What was said on the status of transcription? Answer:

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

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Text: Grad D: And we already got the crash out of the way. It did crash, so I feel much better, earlier. Professor F: Yeah. Postdoc E: Interesting. Hmm. Professor F: Will you get the door, and <unk>disfmarker<unk>? Grad D: OK, so um. Professor F: OK. You collected an agenda, huh? Grad D: I did collect an agenda. So I'm gonna go first. Mwa - ha - ha! It shouldn't take too long. Postdoc E: Yeah. Grad D: Um, so we're pretty much out of digits. We've gone once through the set. Um, so the only thing I have to do Professor F: No there's only ten. Grad D: Yeah, that's right. so I <unk>disfmarker<unk> I just have to go through them Professor F: Well, OK. Grad D: and uh pick out the ones that have problems, and either correct them or have them re - read. So we probably have like four or five more forms to be read, to be once through the set. I've also extracted out about an hour's worth. We have about two hours worth. I extracted out about an hour's worth which are the f digits with <unk>disfmarker<unk> for which whose speaker have speaker forms, have filled out speaker forms. Not everyone's filled out a speaker form. So I extracted one for speakers who have speaker forms and for meetings in which the " key " file and the transcript files are parsable. Some of the early key files, it looks like, were done by hand, and so they're not automatically parsable and I have to go back and fix those. So what that means is we have about an hour of transcribed digits that we can play with. Um, Liz <unk>disfmarker<unk> Professor F: So you think two <unk>disfmarker<unk> you think Question: What solution was proposed for the transcribers? Answer:

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

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Text: Grad D: And we already got the crash out of the way. It did crash, so I feel much better, earlier. Professor F: Yeah. Postdoc E: Interesting. Hmm. Professor F: Will you get the door, and <unk>disfmarker<unk>? Grad D: OK, so um. Professor F: OK. You collected an agenda, huh? Grad D: I did collect an agenda. So I'm gonna go first. Mwa - ha - ha! It shouldn't take too long. Postdoc E: Yeah. Grad D: Um, so we're pretty much out of digits. We've gone once through the set. Um, so the only thing I have to do Professor F: No there's only ten. Grad D: Yeah, that's right. so I <unk>disfmarker<unk> I just have to go through them Professor F: Well, OK. Grad D: and uh pick out the ones that have problems, and either correct them or have them re - read. So we probably have like four or five more forms to be read, to be once through the set. I've also extracted out about an hour's worth. We have about two hours worth. I extracted out about an hour's worth which are the f digits with <unk>disfmarker<unk> for which whose speaker have speaker forms, have filled out speaker forms. Not everyone's filled out a speaker form. So I extracted one for speakers who have speaker forms and for meetings in which the " key " file and the transcript files are parsable. Some of the early key files, it looks like, were done by hand, and so they're not automatically parsable and I have to go back and fix those. So what that means is we have about an hour of transcribed digits that we can play with. Um, Liz <unk>disfmarker<unk> Professor F: So you think two <unk>disfmarker<unk> you think two hours Question: What was included in the transcription formalization? Answer:

Transcription checking procedures have been formalized, including a spell check, producing an exhaustive list of forms identified in the data, attributing every utterance to the appropriate speaker ID, glossing spoken forms with their full orthographic counterparts, e.g. 'cuz' and 'because', transcribing acronyms, and encoding comments, i.e. glosses, vocalic and non-vocalic non-speech events, pragmatic cues, and the standardization of spoken forms, e.g. 'mm-hmm'.

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Text: Grad D: And we already got the crash out of the way. It did crash, so I feel much better, earlier. Professor F: Yeah. Postdoc E: Interesting. Hmm. Professor F: Will you get the door, and <unk>disfmarker<unk>? Grad D: OK, so um. Professor F: OK. You collected an agenda, huh? Grad D: I did collect an agenda. So I'm gonna go first. Mwa - ha - ha! It shouldn't take too long. Postdoc E: Yeah. Grad D: Um, so we're pretty much out of digits. We've gone once through the set. Um, so the only thing I have to do Professor F: No there's only ten. Grad D: Yeah, that's right. so I <unk>disfmarker<unk> I just have to go through them Professor F: Well, OK. Grad D: and uh pick out the ones that have problems, and either correct them or have them re - read. So we probably have like four or five more forms to be read, to be once through the set. I've also extracted out about an hour's worth. We have about two hours worth. I extracted out about an hour's worth which are the f digits with <unk>disfmarker<unk> for which whose speaker have speaker forms, have filled out speaker forms. Not everyone's filled out a speaker form. So I extracted one for speakers who have speaker forms and for meetings in which the " key " file and the transcript files are parsable. Some of the early key files, it looks like, were done by hand, and so they're not automatically parsable and I have to go back and fix those. So what that means is we have about an hour of transcribed digits that we can play with. Um, Liz <unk>disfmarker<unk> Professor F: So you think two <unk>disfmarker<unk> you think Question: Summarize what was said about digits form Answer:

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

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Text: Grad A: Yeah, I think I got my mike on. OK. Let's see. Professor B: OK. Ami, do yours then we 'll open it and I think it 'll be enough. Grad A: Mmm <unk>disfmarker<unk> Doesn't, uh <unk>disfmarker<unk> It should be the other way. Yeah, now it's on. PhD F: Right. OK. Professor B: OK. So, we all switched on? Grad A: We are all switched on, yeah. Professor B: Alright. Anyway. So, uh, before we get started with the, uh, technical part, I just want to review what I think is happening with the <unk>disfmarker<unk> our data collection. PhD F: We are all switched on. Professor B: So <unk>disfmarker<unk> <unk>vocalsound<unk> Uh, probably after today, <unk>vocalsound<unk> that shouldn't come up in this meeting. Th - this <unk>disfmarker<unk> this is s should be im it isn't <unk>disfmarker<unk> There's another thing going on of gathering data, and that's pretty much independent of this. But, uh, I just want to make sure we're all together on this. What we think is gonna happen is that, uh, in parallel starting about now <unk>vocalsound<unk> we're gonna get Fey <unk>vocalsound<unk> to, where you're working with me and Robert, draft a note that we're gonna send out to various CogSci c and other classes saying, " here's an opportunity to be a subject. Contact Fey. " And then there 'll be a certain number of um, hours during the week which she will be available and we 'll bring in people. Uh, roughly how many, Robert? We Question: What was the advantage of using Noisy-ORs? Answer:

The actual number of the inputs in the Bayes-net can create a combinatorial explosion when setting the probabilities. Noisy-OR's can help avoid this by simplifying the probability tables and applying a deterministic function to produce their complete version.

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Text: Grad A: Yeah, I think I got my mike on. OK. Let's see. Professor B: OK. Ami, do yours then we 'll open it and I think it 'll be enough. Grad A: Mmm <unk>disfmarker<unk> Doesn't, uh <unk>disfmarker<unk> It should be the other way. Yeah, now it's on. PhD F: Right. OK. Professor B: OK. So, we all switched on? Grad A: We are all switched on, yeah. Professor B: Alright. Anyway. So, uh, before we get started with the, uh, technical part, I just want to review what I think is happening with the <unk>disfmarker<unk> our data collection. PhD F: We are all switched on. Professor B: So <unk>disfmarker<unk> <unk>vocalsound<unk> Uh, probably after today, <unk>vocalsound<unk> that shouldn't come up in this meeting. Th - this <unk>disfmarker<unk> this is s should be im it isn't <unk>disfmarker<unk> There's another thing going on of gathering data, and that's pretty much independent of this. But, uh, I just want to make sure we're all together on this. What we think is gonna happen is that, uh, in parallel starting about now <unk>vocalsound<unk> we're gonna get Fey <unk>vocalsound<unk> to, where you're working with me and Robert, draft a note that we're gonna send out to various CogSci c and other classes saying, " here's an opportunity to be a subject. Contact Fey. " And then there 'll be a certain number of um, hours during the week which she will be available and we 'll bring in people. Uh, roughly how many, Robert Question: What was suggested to incorporate the EVA into the Bayes-net? Answer:

Object representations will include an EVA vector. This can be incorporated in the database entry for a particular building or inherited from the ontology of the building type. As the project evolves, further enrichment of the ontology (actions, linguistic features) will be necessary.

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Text: Grad A: Yeah, I think I got my mike on. OK. Let's see. Professor B: OK. Ami, do yours then we 'll open it and I think it 'll be enough. Grad A: Mmm <unk>disfmarker<unk> Doesn't, uh <unk>disfmarker<unk> It should be the other way. Yeah, now it's on. PhD F: Right. OK. Professor B: OK. So, we all switched on? Grad A: We are all switched on, yeah. Professor B: Alright. Anyway. So, uh, before we get started with the, uh, technical part, I just want to review what I think is happening with the <unk>disfmarker<unk> our data collection. PhD F: We are all switched on. Professor B: So <unk>disfmarker<unk> <unk>vocalsound<unk> Uh, probably after today, <unk>vocalsound<unk> that shouldn't come up in this meeting. Th - this <unk>disfmarker<unk> this is s should be im it isn't <unk>disfmarker<unk> There's another thing going on of gathering data, and that's pretty much independent of this. But, uh, I just want to make sure we're all together on this. What we think is gonna happen is that, uh, in parallel starting about now <unk>vocalsound<unk> we're gonna get Fey <unk>vocalsound<unk> to, where you're working with me and Robert, draft a note that we're gonna send out to various CogSci c and other classes saying, " here's an opportunity to be a subject. Contact Fey. " And then there 'll be a certain number of um, hours during the week which she will be available and we 'll bring in people. Uh, roughly how many, Robert? We d Do we know? Question: What was said about data collection? Answer:

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

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Text: Grad A: Yeah, I think I got my mike on. OK. Let's see. Professor B: OK. Ami, do yours then we 'll open it and I think it 'll be enough. Grad A: Mmm <unk>disfmarker<unk> Doesn't, uh <unk>disfmarker<unk> It should be the other way. Yeah, now it's on. PhD F: Right. OK. Professor B: OK. So, we all switched on? Grad A: We are all switched on, yeah. Professor B: Alright. Anyway. So, uh, before we get started with the, uh, technical part, I just want to review what I think is happening with the <unk>disfmarker<unk> our data collection. PhD F: We are all switched on. Professor B: So <unk>disfmarker<unk> <unk>vocalsound<unk> Uh, probably after today, <unk>vocalsound<unk> that shouldn't come up in this meeting. Th - this <unk>disfmarker<unk> this is s should be im it isn't <unk>disfmarker<unk> There's another thing going on of gathering data, and that's pretty much independent of this. But, uh, I just want to make sure we're all together on this. What we think is gonna happen is that, uh, in parallel starting about now <unk>vocalsound<unk> we're gonna get Fey <unk>vocalsound<unk> to, where you're working with me and Robert, draft a note that we're gonna send out to various CogSci c and other classes saying, " here's an opportunity to be a subject. Contact Fey. " And then there 'll be a certain number of um, hours during the week which she will be available and we 'll bring in people. Uh, roughly how many, Robert? We Question: What did the team say about interaction of data participants with their data? Answer:

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

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Text: Grad A: Yeah, I think I got my mike on. OK. Let's see. Professor B: OK. Ami, do yours then we 'll open it and I think it 'll be enough. Grad A: Mmm <unk>disfmarker<unk> Doesn't, uh <unk>disfmarker<unk> It should be the other way. Yeah, now it's on. PhD F: Right. OK. Professor B: OK. So, we all switched on? Grad A: We are all switched on, yeah. Professor B: Alright. Anyway. So, uh, before we get started with the, uh, technical part, I just want to review what I think is happening with the <unk>disfmarker<unk> our data collection. PhD F: We are all switched on. Professor B: So <unk>disfmarker<unk> <unk>vocalsound<unk> Uh, probably after today, <unk>vocalsound<unk> that shouldn't come up in this meeting. Th - this <unk>disfmarker<unk> this is s should be im it isn't <unk>disfmarker<unk> There's another thing going on of gathering data, and that's pretty much independent of this. But, uh, I just want to make sure we're all together on this. What we think is gonna happen is that, uh, in parallel starting about now <unk>vocalsound<unk> we're gonna get Fey <unk>vocalsound<unk> to, where you're working with me and Robert, draft a note that we're gonna send out to various CogSci c and other classes saying, " here's an opportunity to be a subject. Contact Fey. " And then there 'll be a certain number of um, hours during the week which she will be available and we 'll bring in people. Uh, roughly how many, Robert? We d Do we know? Grad Question: Summarize the meeting. Answer:

The meeting discussed various topics such as data collection and updates on the German parser. They discussed XML modifications and future thoughts on the ontology. Additionally, object representations will include an EVA vector. This can be incorporated in the database entry for a particular building or inherited from the ontology of the building type. The actual number of the inputs can create a combinatorial explosion when setting the probabilities. In any case, further to fulfilling the basic requirements (translating the parser and the generator into english), the project is entirely open-ended in terms of focus of research.

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Text: The Chair (Hon. Anthony Rota (NipissingTimiskaming, Lib.)): I call this meeting to order. Welcome to the 13th meeting of the House of Commons Special Committee on the COVID-19 Pandemic. This will be a hybrid meeting. Some members will be participating via video conference and some will be participating in person. In order to ensure that those joining the meeting via video conference can be seen and heard by those in the chamber, two screens have been set up on either side of the Chairs chair, and members in the chamber can listen to the floor audio or to interpretation using the earpieces at their desks. Before speaking, please wait until I recognize you by name, and please direct your remarks through the chair. For those joining via video conference, I would like to remind you to leave your mike on mute Mr. Ziad Aboultaif (Edmonton Manning, CPC): I have a point of order. The Chair: Can the member wait for the point of order until we finish the introduction? Mr. Ziad Aboultaif: There is so much noise in the background over there, Mr. Chair. The Chair: That is a very good point of order. I want to remind everyone that when we speak, it is picked up. We have amazing speakersand an amazing Speaker, but that's a whole other storyand amazing microphones in the chamber, and they do pick up everything. I know there was some chatter going on in the background. I want to make sure everyone is aware of that. Mr. Aboultaif, that was a very good point of order. I appreciate that. For those joining us via video conference, I would like to remind you to leave your mikes on mute when you're not speaking. Also, please note that if you want to speak in English, you should be on the English channel, and if you want to speak in French, you should be on the French channel. Should you wish to alternate between the two languages, you should change the channel to the language that you are speaking each time you switch languages. Should members participating by video conference wish to request the floor outside their designated speaking times, they should activate their mic and state that they Question: What was stated in petition e-2509? Answer:

The petitioners had asked the government to implement a wage supplement as a temporary measure to bring the wages for those who were in contact with the general public and working in what had been deemed an essential service to no less than $20 an hour, in light of their service and the risks they were taking for all Canadians.

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Text: The Chair (Hon. Anthony Rota (NipissingTimiskaming, Lib.)): I call this meeting to order. Welcome to the 13th meeting of the House of Commons Special Committee on the COVID-19 Pandemic. This will be a hybrid meeting. Some members will be participating via video conference and some will be participating in person. In order to ensure that those joining the meeting via video conference can be seen and heard by those in the chamber, two screens have been set up on either side of the Chairs chair, and members in the chamber can listen to the floor audio or to interpretation using the earpieces at their desks. Before speaking, please wait until I recognize you by name, and please direct your remarks through the chair. For those joining via video conference, I would like to remind you to leave your mike on mute Mr. Ziad Aboultaif (Edmonton Manning, CPC): I have a point of order. The Chair: Can the member wait for the point of order until we finish the introduction? Mr. Ziad Aboultaif: There is so much noise in the background over there, Mr. Chair. The Chair: That is a very good point of order. I want to remind everyone that when we speak, it is picked up. We have amazing speakersand an amazing Speaker, but that's a whole other storyand amazing microphones in the chamber, and they do pick up everything. I know there was some chatter going on in the background. I want to make sure everyone is aware of that. Mr. Aboultaif, that was a very good point of order. I appreciate that. For those joining us via video conference, I would like to remind you to leave your mikes on mute when you're not speaking. Also, please note that if you want to speak in English, you should be on the English channel, and if you want to speak in French, you should be on the French channel. Should you wish to alternate between the two languages, you should change the channel to the language that you are speaking each time you switch languages. Should members participating by video conference wish to request the floor outside their designated speaking times, they should activate their mic and state that they Question: What was the difficulty faced by the tourism industry? Answer:

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.

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Text: The Chair (Hon. Anthony Rota (NipissingTimiskaming, Lib.)): I call this meeting to order. Welcome to the 13th meeting of the House of Commons Special Committee on the COVID-19 Pandemic. This will be a hybrid meeting. Some members will be participating via video conference and some will be participating in person. In order to ensure that those joining the meeting via video conference can be seen and heard by those in the chamber, two screens have been set up on either side of the Chairs chair, and members in the chamber can listen to the floor audio or to interpretation using the earpieces at their desks. Before speaking, please wait until I recognize you by name, and please direct your remarks through the chair. For those joining via video conference, I would like to remind you to leave your mike on mute Mr. Ziad Aboultaif (Edmonton Manning, CPC): I have a point of order. The Chair: Can the member wait for the point of order until we finish the introduction? Mr. Ziad Aboultaif: There is so much noise in the background over there, Mr. Chair. The Chair: That is a very good point of order. I want to remind everyone that when we speak, it is picked up. We have amazing speakersand an amazing Speaker, but that's a whole other storyand amazing microphones in the chamber, and they do pick up everything. I know there was some chatter going on in the background. I want to make sure everyone is aware of that. Mr. Aboultaif, that was a very good point of order. I appreciate that. For those joining us via video conference, I would like to remind you to leave your mikes on mute when you're not speaking. Also, please note that if you want to speak in English, you should be on the English channel, and if you want to speak in French, you should be on the French channel. Should you wish to alternate between the two languages, you should change the channel to the language that you are speaking each time you switch languages. Should members participating by video conference wish to request the floor outside their designated speaking times, Question: Why were the thanks expressed to the House of Commons today from Whitehorse? Answer:

Hon. Larry Bagnell (Yukon, Lib.) suggested that as a great historic Canadian event last week, Yukon became home to Canada's first university north of 60. Yukon University would provide Yukoners with educational opportunities closer to home, expand the research capabilities and expertise on the Arctic and climate change and allow those who want to study northern and first nations governance to do so in the north.

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Text: The Chair (Hon. Anthony Rota (NipissingTimiskaming, Lib.)): I call this meeting to order. Welcome to the 13th meeting of the House of Commons Special Committee on the COVID-19 Pandemic. This will be a hybrid meeting. Some members will be participating via video conference and some will be participating in person. In order to ensure that those joining the meeting via video conference can be seen and heard by those in the chamber, two screens have been set up on either side of the Chairs chair, and members in the chamber can listen to the floor audio or to interpretation using the earpieces at their desks. Before speaking, please wait until I recognize you by name, and please direct your remarks through the chair. For those joining via video conference, I would like to remind you to leave your mike on mute Mr. Ziad Aboultaif (Edmonton Manning, CPC): I have a point of order. The Chair: Can the member wait for the point of order until we finish the introduction? Mr. Ziad Aboultaif: There is so much noise in the background over there, Mr. Chair. The Chair: That is a very good point of order. I want to remind everyone that when we speak, it is picked up. We have amazing speakersand an amazing Speaker, but that's a whole other storyand amazing microphones in the chamber, and they do pick up everything. I know there was some chatter going on in the background. I want to make sure everyone is aware of that. Mr. Aboultaif, that was a very good point of order. I appreciate that. For those joining us via video conference, I would like to remind you to leave your mikes on mute when you're not speaking. Also, please note that if you want to speak in English, you should be on the English channel, and if you want to speak in French, you should be on the French channel. Should you wish to alternate between the two languages, you should change the channel to the language that you are speaking each time you switch languages. Should members participating by video conference wish to request the floor outside their designated speaking times, they should activate Question: What were the reasons to thank the members of the Canadian Armed Forces? Answer:

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

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Text: The Chair (Hon. Anthony Rota (NipissingTimiskaming, Lib.)): I call this meeting to order. Welcome to the 13th meeting of the House of Commons Special Committee on the COVID-19 Pandemic. This will be a hybrid meeting. Some members will be participating via video conference and some will be participating in person. In order to ensure that those joining the meeting via video conference can be seen and heard by those in the chamber, two screens have been set up on either side of the Chairs chair, and members in the chamber can listen to the floor audio or to interpretation using the earpieces at their desks. Before speaking, please wait until I recognize you by name, and please direct your remarks through the chair. For those joining via video conference, I would like to remind you to leave your mike on mute Mr. Ziad Aboultaif (Edmonton Manning, CPC): I have a point of order. The Chair: Can the member wait for the point of order until we finish the introduction? Mr. Ziad Aboultaif: There is so much noise in the background over there, Mr. Chair. The Chair: That is a very good point of order. I want to remind everyone that when we speak, it is picked up. We have amazing speakersand an amazing Speaker, but that's a whole other storyand amazing microphones in the chamber, and they do pick up everything. I know there was some chatter going on in the background. I want to make sure everyone is aware of that. Mr. Aboultaif, that was a very good point of order. I appreciate that. For those joining us via video conference, I would like to remind you to leave your mikes on mute when you're not speaking. Also, please note that if you want to speak in English, you should be on the English channel, and if you want to speak in French, you should be on the French channel. Should you wish to alternate between the two languages, you should change the channel to the language that you are speaking each time you switch languages. Should members participating by video conference wish to request the floor outside their designated speaking times, they should activate their mic Question: Would there be more room for profit in the care of the seniors? Answer:

Hon. Chrystia Freeland suggested that after what it had been learned this week, all options must be on the table when it came to how care for the elders would be provided in Canada in the future. Currently, it is clear to all that root-and-branch reform was necessary. All participants would need to act with speed but not haste, and work with the provincial partners.

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Text: The Chair (Hon. Anthony Rota (NipissingTimiskaming, Lib.)): I call this meeting to order. Welcome to the 13th meeting of the House of Commons Special Committee on the COVID-19 Pandemic. This will be a hybrid meeting. Some members will be participating via video conference and some will be participating in person. In order to ensure that those joining the meeting via video conference can be seen and heard by those in the chamber, two screens have been set up on either side of the Chairs chair, and members in the chamber can listen to the floor audio or to interpretation using the earpieces at their desks. Before speaking, please wait until I recognize you by name, and please direct your remarks through the chair. For those joining via video conference, I would like to remind you to leave your mike on mute Mr. Ziad Aboultaif (Edmonton Manning, CPC): I have a point of order. The Chair: Can the member wait for the point of order until we finish the introduction? Mr. Ziad Aboultaif: There is so much noise in the background over there, Mr. Chair. The Chair: That is a very good point of order. I want to remind everyone that when we speak, it is picked up. We have amazing speakersand an amazing Speaker, but that's a whole other storyand amazing microphones in the chamber, and they do pick up everything. I know there was some chatter going on in the background. I want to make sure everyone is aware of that. Mr. Aboultaif, that was a very good point of order. I appreciate that. For those joining us via video conference, I would like to remind you to leave your mikes on mute when you're not speaking. Also, please note that if you want to speak in English, you should be on the English channel, and if you want to speak in French, you should be on the French channel. Should you wish to alternate between the two languages, you should change the channel to the language that you are speaking each time you switch languages. Should members participating by video conference wish to request the floor outside their designated speaking times, they should activate Question: Where was the $75 million towards sexual exploitation and human trafficking had gone? Answer:

Mrs. Karen Vecchio joined critics from the NDP, the Bloc and the Green Party who delt with women's issues and gender equality to ask where the $75 million toward sexual exploitation and human trafficking had gone. As a result of financial shortage, last week organizations had to close their doors and the programs that helped vulnerable women and girls. Hon. Bill Blair (Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness) introduced that the government had launched a new, comprehensive national strategy to combat human trafficking, and had incorporated a new pillar in that strategy of empowerment to ensure that focus.

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Text: The Chair (Hon. Anthony Rota (NipissingTimiskaming, Lib.)): I call this meeting to order. Welcome to the 13th meeting of the House of Commons Special Committee on the COVID-19 Pandemic. This will be a hybrid meeting. Some members will be participating via video conference and some will be participating in person. In order to ensure that those joining the meeting via video conference can be seen and heard by those in the chamber, two screens have been set up on either side of the Chairs chair, and members in the chamber can listen to the floor audio or to interpretation using the earpieces at their desks. Before speaking, please wait until I recognize you by name, and please direct your remarks through the chair. For those joining via video conference, I would like to remind you to leave your mike on mute Mr. Ziad Aboultaif (Edmonton Manning, CPC): I have a point of order. The Chair: Can the member wait for the point of order until we finish the introduction? Mr. Ziad Aboultaif: There is so much noise in the background over there, Mr. Chair. The Chair: That is a very good point of order. I want to remind everyone that when we speak, it is picked up. We have amazing speakersand an amazing Speaker, but that's a whole other storyand amazing microphones in the chamber, and they do pick up everything. I know there was some chatter going on in the background. I want to make sure everyone is aware of that. Mr. Aboultaif, that was a very good point of order. I appreciate that. For those joining us via video conference, I would like to remind you to leave your mikes on mute when you're not speaking. Also, please note that if you want to speak in English, you should be on the English channel, and if you want to speak in French, you should be on the French channel. Should you wish to alternate between the two languages, you should change the channel to the language that you are speaking each time you switch languages. Should members participating by video conference wish to request the floor outside their designated speaking Question: Would the Prime Minister condemn this law concerning the national security bill undermining Hong Kong's autonomy? Answer:

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

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Text: The Chair (Hon. Anthony Rota (NipissingTimiskaming, Lib.)): I call this meeting to order. Welcome to the 13th meeting of the House of Commons Special Committee on the COVID-19 Pandemic. This will be a hybrid meeting. Some members will be participating via video conference and some will be participating in person. In order to ensure that those joining the meeting via video conference can be seen and heard by those in the chamber, two screens have been set up on either side of the Chairs chair, and members in the chamber can listen to the floor audio or to interpretation using the earpieces at their desks. Before speaking, please wait until I recognize you by name, and please direct your remarks through the chair. For those joining via video conference, I would like to remind you to leave your mike on mute Mr. Ziad Aboultaif (Edmonton Manning, CPC): I have a point of order. The Chair: Can the member wait for the point of order until we finish the introduction? Mr. Ziad Aboultaif: There is so much noise in the background over there, Mr. Chair. The Chair: That is a very good point of order. I want to remind everyone that when we speak, it is picked up. We have amazing speakersand an amazing Speaker, but that's a whole other storyand amazing microphones in the chamber, and they do pick up everything. I know there was some chatter going on in the background. I want to make sure everyone is aware of that. Mr. Aboultaif, that was a very good point of order. I appreciate that. For those joining us via video conference, I would like to remind you to leave your mikes on mute when you're not speaking. Also, please note that if you want to speak in English, you should be on the English channel, and if you want to speak in French, you should be on the French channel. Should you wish to alternate between the two languages, you should change the channel to the language that you are speaking each time you switch languages. Should members participating by video conference wish to request the floor outside their designated speaking times, they should activate Question: What did the meeting discuss about the measures taken for the Canada summer jobs program? Answer:

Hon. Carla Qualtrough (Minister of Employment, Workforce Development and Disability Inclusion) said that it could be confirmed that the government would increase the wage subsidies for Canada student jobs. The program had added flexibilities, including the ability to have part-time work and the ability to have the jobs extended until February of next year. That said, the budget was not changed. It remains at 70,000 job placements for 70,000 students, with 100% of them being subsidized at 100%.

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Text: The Chair (Hon. Anthony Rota (NipissingTimiskaming, Lib.)): I call this meeting to order. Welcome to the 13th meeting of the House of Commons Special Committee on the COVID-19 Pandemic. This will be a hybrid meeting. Some members will be participating via video conference and some will be participating in person. In order to ensure that those joining the meeting via video conference can be seen and heard by those in the chamber, two screens have been set up on either side of the Chairs chair, and members in the chamber can listen to the floor audio or to interpretation using the earpieces at their desks. Before speaking, please wait until I recognize you by name, and please direct your remarks through the chair. For those joining via video conference, I would like to remind you to leave your mike on mute Mr. Ziad Aboultaif (Edmonton Manning, CPC): I have a point of order. The Chair: Can the member wait for the point of order until we finish the introduction? Mr. Ziad Aboultaif: There is so much noise in the background over there, Mr. Chair. The Chair: That is a very good point of order. I want to remind everyone that when we speak, it is picked up. We have amazing speakersand an amazing Speaker, but that's a whole other storyand amazing microphones in the chamber, and they do pick up everything. I know there was some chatter going on in the background. I want to make sure everyone is aware of that. Mr. Aboultaif, that was a very good point of order. I appreciate that. For those joining us via video conference, I would like to remind you to leave your mikes on mute when you're not speaking. Also, please note that if you want to speak in English, you should be on the English channel, and if you want to speak in French, you should be on the French channel. Should you wish to alternate between the two languages, you should change the channel to the language that you are speaking each time you switch languages. Should members participating by video conference wish to request the floor outside their designated speaking times, they should activate their mic and state that they Question: Would the government enhance the Canada summer jobs program? Answer:

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

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Text: The Chair (Hon. Anthony Rota (NipissingTimiskaming, Lib.)): I call this meeting to order. Welcome to the 13th meeting of the House of Commons Special Committee on the COVID-19 Pandemic. This will be a hybrid meeting. Some members will be participating via video conference and some will be participating in person. In order to ensure that those joining the meeting via video conference can be seen and heard by those in the chamber, two screens have been set up on either side of the Chairs chair, and members in the chamber can listen to the floor audio or to interpretation using the earpieces at their desks. Before speaking, please wait until I recognize you by name, and please direct your remarks through the chair. For those joining via video conference, I would like to remind you to leave your mike on mute Mr. Ziad Aboultaif (Edmonton Manning, CPC): I have a point of order. The Chair: Can the member wait for the point of order until we finish the introduction? Mr. Ziad Aboultaif: There is so much noise in the background over there, Mr. Chair. The Chair: That is a very good point of order. I want to remind everyone that when we speak, it is picked up. We have amazing speakersand an amazing Speaker, but that's a whole other storyand amazing microphones in the chamber, and they do pick up everything. I know there was some chatter going on in the background. I want to make sure everyone is aware of that. Mr. Aboultaif, that was a very good point of order. I appreciate that. For those joining us via video conference, I would like to remind you to leave your mikes on mute when you're not speaking. Also, please note that if you want to speak in English, you should be on the English channel, and if you want to speak in French, you should be on the French channel. Should you wish to alternate between the two languages, you should change the channel to the language that you are speaking each time you switch languages Question: How did the infrastructure minister explain to give $1 million in bonuses to the CEO of the Canada Infrastructure Bank rather than to invest in roads, schools, hospitals and long-term care homes? Answer:

Hon. Catherine McKenna started by introducing the $33 billion infrastructure program in which the government was working directly with the Government of Quebec to build infrastructure that was making a huge difference, including projects in the member's riding. Moreover, the change of management at the Canada Infrastructure Bank marked a new phase in the development of the bank. The government was working to build a modern, public infrastructure, to create jobs, and to make Canada more competitive internationally.

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Text: The Chair (Hon. Anthony Rota (NipissingTimiskaming, Lib.)): I call this meeting to order. Welcome to the 13th meeting of the House of Commons Special Committee on the COVID-19 Pandemic. This will be a hybrid meeting. Some members will be participating via video conference and some will be participating in person. In order to ensure that those joining the meeting via video conference can be seen and heard by those in the chamber, two screens have been set up on either side of the Chairs chair, and members in the chamber can listen to the floor audio or to interpretation using the earpieces at their desks. Before speaking, please wait until I recognize you by name, and please direct your remarks through the chair. For those joining via video conference, I would like to remind you to leave your mike on mute Mr. Ziad Aboultaif (Edmonton Manning, CPC): I have a point of order. The Chair: Can the member wait for the point of order until we finish the introduction? Mr. Ziad Aboultaif: There is so much noise in the background over there, Mr. Chair. The Chair: That is a very good point of order. I want to remind everyone that when we speak, it is picked up. We have amazing speakersand an amazing Speaker, but that's a whole other storyand amazing microphones in the chamber, and they do pick up everything. I know there was some chatter going on in the background. I want to make sure everyone is aware of that. Mr. Aboultaif, that was a very good point of order. I appreciate that. For those joining us via video conference, I would like to remind you to leave your mikes on mute when you're not speaking. Also, please note that if you want to speak in English, you should be on the English channel, and if you want to speak in French, you should be on the French channel. Should you wish to alternate between the two languages, you should change the channel to the language that you are speaking each time you switch languages. Should members participating by video conference wish Question: Would the government commit to immediately examine all the trade barriers that could affect interprovincial trade of essential goods due to COVID-19? Answer:

Hon. Chrystia Freeland introduced that the government was very committed to removing barriers to interprovincial trade. It was something that we have been working on with the premiers. Obviously the coronavirus has taken precedence in recent weeks, but it's a priority. It was the right thing to do. The government had been meeting every week for more than two months, to be focusing on the urgent threat posed by the coronavirus to ensure that there would be no delay.

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Text: The Chair (Hon. Anthony Rota (NipissingTimiskaming, Lib.)): I call this meeting to order. Welcome to the 13th meeting of the House of Commons Special Committee on the COVID-19 Pandemic. This will be a hybrid meeting. Some members will be participating via video conference and some will be participating in person. In order to ensure that those joining the meeting via video conference can be seen and heard by those in the chamber, two screens have been set up on either side of the Chairs chair, and members in the chamber can listen to the floor audio or to interpretation using the earpieces at their desks. Before speaking, please wait until I recognize you by name, and please direct your remarks through the chair. For those joining via video conference, I would like to remind you to leave your mike on mute Mr. Ziad Aboultaif (Edmonton Manning, CPC): I have a point of order. The Chair: Can the member wait for the point of order until we finish the introduction? Mr. Ziad Aboultaif: There is so much noise in the background over there, Mr. Chair. The Chair: That is a very good point of order. I want to remind everyone that when we speak, it is picked up. We have amazing speakersand an amazing Speaker, but that's a whole other storyand amazing microphones in the chamber, and they do pick up everything. I know there was some chatter going on in the background. I want to make sure everyone is aware of that. Mr. Aboultaif, that was a very good point of order. I appreciate that. For those joining us via video conference, I would like to remind you to leave your mikes on mute when you're not speaking. Also, please note that if you want to speak in English, you should be on the English channel, and if you want to speak in French, you should be on the French channel. Should you wish to alternate between the two languages, you should change the channel to the language that you are speaking each time you switch languages. Should members participating by video conference wish to request the floor outside their designated speaking times, they should activate their mic and Question: What guidance would the federal government have for the employment with concerns? Answer:

Mr. Daniel Blaikie asked about the government's guidance towards people who felt that their workplace was not safe at this time and that their employer had not done its due diligence, and were concerned about losing access to the CERB. Hon.Carla Qualtrough suggested that the government were working very closely with the provinces on occupational health and safety guidelines and taking an all-of-government approach to ensure that workers were safe and that the government could support them in these efforts.

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Text: The Chair (Hon. Anthony Rota (NipissingTimiskaming, Lib.)): I call this meeting to order. Welcome to the 13th meeting of the House of Commons Special Committee on the COVID-19 Pandemic. This will be a hybrid meeting. Some members will be participating via video conference and some will be participating in person. In order to ensure that those joining the meeting via video conference can be seen and heard by those in the chamber, two screens have been set up on either side of the Chairs chair, and members in the chamber can listen to the floor audio or to interpretation using the earpieces at their desks. Before speaking, please wait until I recognize you by name, and please direct your remarks through the chair. For those joining via video conference, I would like to remind you to leave your mike on mute Mr. Ziad Aboultaif (Edmonton Manning, CPC): I have a point of order. The Chair: Can the member wait for the point of order until we finish the introduction? Mr. Ziad Aboultaif: There is so much noise in the background over there, Mr. Chair. The Chair: That is a very good point of order. I want to remind everyone that when we speak, it is picked up. We have amazing speakersand an amazing Speaker, but that's a whole other storyand amazing microphones in the chamber, and they do pick up everything. I know there was some chatter going on in the background. I want to make sure everyone is aware of that. Mr. Aboultaif, that was a very good point of order. I appreciate that. For those joining us via video conference, I would like to remind you to leave your mikes on mute when you're not speaking. Also, please note that if you want to speak in English, you should be on the English channel, and if you want to speak in French, you should be on the French channel. Should you wish to alternate between the two languages, you should change the channel to the language that you are speaking each time you switch languages. Should members participating by video conference wish to request the floor outside their designated speaking times, they should activate their mic and state that they have a Question: Summarize the whole meeting. Answer:

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

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Text: PhD E: OK. Professor B: OK, so <unk>pause<unk> We <unk>disfmarker<unk> we had a meeting with, uh <unk>disfmarker<unk> with Hynek, um, in <unk>disfmarker<unk> in which, uh, uh, Sunil and Stephane, uh <unk>vocalsound<unk> summarized where they were and <unk>disfmarker<unk> and, uh, talked about where we were gonna go. So that <unk>disfmarker<unk> that happened sort of mid - week. Uh. PhD E: D did <unk>disfmarker<unk> did you guys get your code pushed together? PhD D: Oh, yeah. Yeah. It's <unk>disfmarker<unk> it's <unk>disfmarker<unk> it's <unk>disfmarker<unk> it was updated yesterday, PhD E: Cool. PhD D: right? PhD A: Yeah. PhD D: Yeah. PhD A: You probably received the mail. PhD E: Oh, right, I saw <unk>disfmarker<unk> I saw the note. PhD A: Yeah. PhD E: Mm - hmm. Professor B: What was the update? PhD A: What was the update? So there is th then <unk>disfmarker<unk> the <unk>disfmarker<unk> all the new features that go in. Professor B: Yeah. PhD A: The, um, noise suppression, the re - synthesis of speech after suppression. These are the <unk>disfmarker<unk> PhD E: Is the, um <unk>disfmarker<unk> the CVS mechanism working <unk>pause<unk> well? PhD A: Yeah. PhD E: Are <unk>disfmarker<unk> are people, uh, up at OGI grabbing code uh, via that? PhD D: Uh, I don't think <unk>disfmarker<unk> I don't think <unk> Question: Summarize the discussion on project logistics Answer:

The team had pushed their code and was curious to know if the CVS system was working well. It was, at least from Belgium. Other team members needed to come back for the team to complete a few tasks.

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Text: PhD E: OK. Professor B: OK, so <unk>pause<unk> We <unk>disfmarker<unk> we had a meeting with, uh <unk>disfmarker<unk> with Hynek, um, in <unk>disfmarker<unk> in which, uh, uh, Sunil and Stephane, uh <unk>vocalsound<unk> summarized where they were and <unk>disfmarker<unk> and, uh, talked about where we were gonna go. So that <unk>disfmarker<unk> that happened sort of mid - week. Uh. PhD E: D did <unk>disfmarker<unk> did you guys get your code pushed together? PhD D: Oh, yeah. Yeah. It's <unk>disfmarker<unk> it's <unk>disfmarker<unk> it's <unk>disfmarker<unk> it was updated yesterday, PhD E: Cool. PhD D: right? PhD A: Yeah. PhD D: Yeah. PhD A: You probably received the mail. PhD E: Oh, right, I saw <unk>disfmarker<unk> I saw the note. PhD A: Yeah. PhD E: Mm - hmm. Professor B: What was the update? PhD A: What was the update? So there is th then <unk>disfmarker<unk> the <unk>disfmarker<unk> all the new features that go in. Professor B: Yeah. PhD A: The, um, noise suppression, the re - synthesis of speech after suppression. These are the <unk>disfmarker<unk> PhD E: Is the, um <unk>disfmarker<unk> the CVS mechanism working <unk>pause<unk> well? PhD A: Yeah. PhD E: Are <unk>disfmarker<unk> are people, uh, up at OGI grabbing code uh, via that? PhD D: Uh, I don't think <unk>disfmarker<unk> I don't think Question: What did the team discuss about CVS security? Answer:

While remote CVS access seemed to be working, the team was unsure about setting up a CVS server on a new port. That required a password mechanism. But the team thought an anonymous CVS might be good to store transcripts as it relied on open source software.

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Text: PhD E: OK. Professor B: OK, so <unk>pause<unk> We <unk>disfmarker<unk> we had a meeting with, uh <unk>disfmarker<unk> with Hynek, um, in <unk>disfmarker<unk> in which, uh, uh, Sunil and Stephane, uh <unk>vocalsound<unk> summarized where they were and <unk>disfmarker<unk> and, uh, talked about where we were gonna go. So that <unk>disfmarker<unk> that happened sort of mid - week. Uh. PhD E: D did <unk>disfmarker<unk> did you guys get your code pushed together? PhD D: Oh, yeah. Yeah. It's <unk>disfmarker<unk> it's <unk>disfmarker<unk> it's <unk>disfmarker<unk> it was updated yesterday, PhD E: Cool. PhD D: right? PhD A: Yeah. PhD D: Yeah. PhD A: You probably received the mail. PhD E: Oh, right, I saw <unk>disfmarker<unk> I saw the note. PhD A: Yeah. PhD E: Mm - hmm. Professor B: What was the update? PhD A: What was the update? So there is th then <unk>disfmarker<unk> the <unk>disfmarker<unk> all the new features that go in. Professor B: Yeah. PhD A: The, um, noise suppression, the re - synthesis of speech after suppression. These are the <unk>disfmarker<unk> PhD E: Is the, um <unk>disfmarker<unk> the CVS mechanism working <unk>pause<unk> well? PhD A: Yeah. PhD E: Are <unk>disfmarker<unk> are people, uh, up at OGI grabbing code uh, via that? PhD D: Uh, I don't think <unk>disfmarker<unk> I don' Question: What did the team discuss about OGI and CVS? Answer:

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.

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Text: PhD E: OK. Professor B: OK, so <unk>pause<unk> We <unk>disfmarker<unk> we had a meeting with, uh <unk>disfmarker<unk> with Hynek, um, in <unk>disfmarker<unk> in which, uh, uh, Sunil and Stephane, uh <unk>vocalsound<unk> summarized where they were and <unk>disfmarker<unk> and, uh, talked about where we were gonna go. So that <unk>disfmarker<unk> that happened sort of mid - week. Uh. PhD E: D did <unk>disfmarker<unk> did you guys get your code pushed together? PhD D: Oh, yeah. Yeah. It's <unk>disfmarker<unk> it's <unk>disfmarker<unk> it's <unk>disfmarker<unk> it was updated yesterday, PhD E: Cool. PhD D: right? PhD A: Yeah. PhD D: Yeah. PhD A: You probably received the mail. PhD E: Oh, right, I saw <unk>disfmarker<unk> I saw the note. PhD A: Yeah. PhD E: Mm - hmm. Professor B: What was the update? PhD A: What was the update? So there is th then <unk>disfmarker<unk> the <unk>disfmarker<unk> all the new features that go in. Professor B: Yeah. PhD A: The, um, noise suppression, the re - synthesis of speech after suppression. These are the <unk>disfmarker<unk> PhD E: Is the, um <unk>disfmarker<unk> the CVS mechanism working <unk>pause<unk> well? PhD A: Yeah. PhD E: Are <unk>disfmarker<unk> are people, uh, up at OGI grabbing code uh, via that? PhD D: Uh, I don't think <unk>disfmarker<unk> I don't think <unk> Question: What did the team discuss about evaluation? Answer:

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

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Text: PhD E: OK. Professor B: OK, so <unk>pause<unk> We <unk>disfmarker<unk> we had a meeting with, uh <unk>disfmarker<unk> with Hynek, um, in <unk>disfmarker<unk> in which, uh, uh, Sunil and Stephane, uh <unk>vocalsound<unk> summarized where they were and <unk>disfmarker<unk> and, uh, talked about where we were gonna go. So that <unk>disfmarker<unk> that happened sort of mid - week. Uh. PhD E: D did <unk>disfmarker<unk> did you guys get your code pushed together? PhD D: Oh, yeah. Yeah. It's <unk>disfmarker<unk> it's <unk>disfmarker<unk> it's <unk>disfmarker<unk> it was updated yesterday, PhD E: Cool. PhD D: right? PhD A: Yeah. PhD D: Yeah. PhD A: You probably received the mail. PhD E: Oh, right, I saw <unk>disfmarker<unk> I saw the note. PhD A: Yeah. PhD E: Mm - hmm. Professor B: What was the update? PhD A: What was the update? So there is th then <unk>disfmarker<unk> the <unk>disfmarker<unk> all the new features that go in. Professor B: Yeah. PhD A: The, um, noise suppression, the re - synthesis of speech after suppression. These are the <unk>disfmarker<unk> PhD E: Is the, um <unk>disfmarker<unk> the CVS mechanism working <unk>pause<unk> well? PhD A: Yeah. PhD E: Are <unk>disfmarker<unk> are people, uh, up at OGI grabbing code uh, via that? PhD D: Uh, I don't think <unk>disfmarker<unk> I don't think Question: What did the team discuss about insertion penalties? Answer:

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

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Text: PhD E: OK. Professor B: OK, so <unk>pause<unk> We <unk>disfmarker<unk> we had a meeting with, uh <unk>disfmarker<unk> with Hynek, um, in <unk>disfmarker<unk> in which, uh, uh, Sunil and Stephane, uh <unk>vocalsound<unk> summarized where they were and <unk>disfmarker<unk> and, uh, talked about where we were gonna go. So that <unk>disfmarker<unk> that happened sort of mid - week. Uh. PhD E: D did <unk>disfmarker<unk> did you guys get your code pushed together? PhD D: Oh, yeah. Yeah. It's <unk>disfmarker<unk> it's <unk>disfmarker<unk> it's <unk>disfmarker<unk> it was updated yesterday, PhD E: Cool. PhD D: right? PhD A: Yeah. PhD D: Yeah. PhD A: You probably received the mail. PhD E: Oh, right, I saw <unk>disfmarker<unk> I saw the note. PhD A: Yeah. PhD E: Mm - hmm. Professor B: What was the update? PhD A: What was the update? So there is th then <unk>disfmarker<unk> the <unk>disfmarker<unk> all the new features that go in. Professor B: Yeah. PhD A: The, um, noise suppression, the re - synthesis of speech after suppression. These are the <unk>disfmarker<unk> PhD E: Is the, um <unk>disfmarker<unk> the CVS mechanism working <unk>pause<unk> well? PhD A: Yeah. PhD E: Are <unk>disfmarker<unk> are people, uh, up at OGI grabbing code uh, via that? PhD D: Uh, I don't think <unk>disfmarker<unk> I don' Question: What did the team discuss about the Wall Street Journal data? Answer:

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

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Text: PhD E: OK. Professor B: OK, so <unk>pause<unk> We <unk>disfmarker<unk> we had a meeting with, uh <unk>disfmarker<unk> with Hynek, um, in <unk>disfmarker<unk> in which, uh, uh, Sunil and Stephane, uh <unk>vocalsound<unk> summarized where they were and <unk>disfmarker<unk> and, uh, talked about where we were gonna go. So that <unk>disfmarker<unk> that happened sort of mid - week. Uh. PhD E: D did <unk>disfmarker<unk> did you guys get your code pushed together? PhD D: Oh, yeah. Yeah. It's <unk>disfmarker<unk> it's <unk>disfmarker<unk> it's <unk>disfmarker<unk> it was updated yesterday, PhD E: Cool. PhD D: right? PhD A: Yeah. PhD D: Yeah. PhD A: You probably received the mail. PhD E: Oh, right, I saw <unk>disfmarker<unk> I saw the note. PhD A: Yeah. PhD E: Mm - hmm. Professor B: What was the update? PhD A: What was the update? So there is th then <unk>disfmarker<unk> the <unk>disfmarker<unk> all the new features that go in. Professor B: Yeah. PhD A: The, um, noise suppression, the re - synthesis of speech after suppression. These are the <unk>disfmarker<unk> PhD E: Is the, um <unk>disfmarker<unk> the CVS mechanism working <unk>pause<unk> well? PhD A: Yeah. PhD E: Are <unk>disfmarker<unk> are people, uh, up at OGI grabbing code uh, via that? PhD D: Uh, I don't think <unk>disfmarker<unk> I don't think <unk>disf Question: Summarize the meeting Answer:

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.

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Text: PhD F: OK. Professor B: Uh. Somebody else should run this. I'm sick of being the one to sort of go through and say, " Well, what do you think about this? " You wanna <unk>disfmarker<unk>? PhD D: Yeah. PhD F: Should we take turns? You want me to run it today? Professor B: Yeah. Why don't you run it today? OK. PhD F: OK. OK. Um. Let's see, maybe we should just get a list of items <unk>disfmarker<unk> things that we should talk about. Um, I guess there's the usual <unk>pause<unk> updates, everybody going around and saying, uh, you know, what they're working on, the things that happened the last week. But aside from that is there anything in particular that anybody wants to bring up PhD D: Mmm. PhD F: for today? No? OK. So why don't we just around and people can give updates. PhD E: Oh. PhD F: Uh, do you want to start, Stephane? PhD C: Alright. Um. Well, the first thing maybe is that the p Eurospeech paper is, uh, accepted. Um. Yeah. PhD F: This is <unk>disfmarker<unk> what <unk>disfmarker<unk> what do you, uh <unk>disfmarker<unk> what's in the paper there? PhD C: So it's the paper that describe basically the, um, system that were proposed for the <unk>pause<unk> Aurora. PhD F: The one that we s we submitted the last round? PhD C: Right, yeah. PhD D: Yeah. PhD F: Uh - huh. PhD C: Um <unk>disfmarker<unk> Yeah. So and the, fff <unk>comment<unk> comments seems <unk>disfmarker<unk> from the review Question: Summarize the discussion on the Eurospeech paper and on-line normalization Answer:

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.

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Text: PhD F: OK. Professor B: Uh. Somebody else should run this. I'm sick of being the one to sort of go through and say, " Well, what do you think about this? " You wanna <unk>disfmarker<unk>? PhD D: Yeah. PhD F: Should we take turns? You want me to run it today? Professor B: Yeah. Why don't you run it today? OK. PhD F: OK. OK. Um. Let's see, maybe we should just get a list of items <unk>disfmarker<unk> things that we should talk about. Um, I guess there's the usual <unk>pause<unk> updates, everybody going around and saying, uh, you know, what they're working on, the things that happened the last week. But aside from that is there anything in particular that anybody wants to bring up PhD D: Mmm. PhD F: for today? No? OK. So why don't we just around and people can give updates. PhD E: Oh. PhD F: Uh, do you want to start, Stephane? PhD C: Alright. Um. Well, the first thing maybe is that the p Eurospeech paper is, uh, accepted. Um. Yeah. PhD F: This is <unk>disfmarker<unk> what <unk>disfmarker<unk> what do you, uh <unk>disfmarker<unk> what's in the paper there? PhD C: So it's the paper that describe basically the, um, system that were proposed for the <unk>pause<unk> Aurora. PhD F: The one that we s we submitted the last round? PhD C: Right, yeah. PhD D: Yeah. PhD F: Uh - huh. PhD C: Um <unk>disfmarker<unk> Yeah. So and the, fff <unk>comment<unk> comments seems <unk>disfmarker<unk> from the reviewer are good. So Question: What did PhD C think about on-line normalization? Answer:

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

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Text: PhD F: OK. Professor B: Uh. Somebody else should run this. I'm sick of being the one to sort of go through and say, " Well, what do you think about this? " You wanna <unk>disfmarker<unk>? PhD D: Yeah. PhD F: Should we take turns? You want me to run it today? Professor B: Yeah. Why don't you run it today? OK. PhD F: OK. OK. Um. Let's see, maybe we should just get a list of items <unk>disfmarker<unk> things that we should talk about. Um, I guess there's the usual <unk>pause<unk> updates, everybody going around and saying, uh, you know, what they're working on, the things that happened the last week. But aside from that is there anything in particular that anybody wants to bring up PhD D: Mmm. PhD F: for today? No? OK. So why don't we just around and people can give updates. PhD E: Oh. PhD F: Uh, do you want to start, Stephane? PhD C: Alright. Um. Well, the first thing maybe is that the p Eurospeech paper is, uh, accepted. Um. Yeah. PhD F: This is <unk>disfmarker<unk> what <unk>disfmarker<unk> what do you, uh <unk>disfmarker<unk> what's in the paper there? PhD C: So it's the paper that describe basically the, um, system that were proposed for the <unk>pause<unk> Aurora. PhD F: The one that we s we submitted the last round? PhD C: Right, yeah. PhD D: Yeah. PhD F: Uh - huh. PhD C: Um <unk>disfmarker<unk> Yeah. So and the, fff <unk>comment<unk> comments seems <unk>disfmarker<unk> from the reviewer are good Question: What did the professor think about the difference between means of silence and speech? Answer:

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

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Text: PhD F: OK. Professor B: Uh. Somebody else should run this. I'm sick of being the one to sort of go through and say, " Well, what do you think about this? " You wanna <unk>disfmarker<unk>? PhD D: Yeah. PhD F: Should we take turns? You want me to run it today? Professor B: Yeah. Why don't you run it today? OK. PhD F: OK. OK. Um. Let's see, maybe we should just get a list of items <unk>disfmarker<unk> things that we should talk about. Um, I guess there's the usual <unk>pause<unk> updates, everybody going around and saying, uh, you know, what they're working on, the things that happened the last week. But aside from that is there anything in particular that anybody wants to bring up PhD D: Mmm. PhD F: for today? No? OK. So why don't we just around and people can give updates. PhD E: Oh. PhD F: Uh, do you want to start, Stephane? PhD C: Alright. Um. Well, the first thing maybe is that the p Eurospeech paper is, uh, accepted. Um. Yeah. PhD F: This is <unk>disfmarker<unk> what <unk>disfmarker<unk> what do you, uh <unk>disfmarker<unk> what's in the paper there? PhD C: So it's the paper that describe basically the, um, system that were proposed for the <unk>pause<unk> Aurora. PhD F: The one that we s we submitted the last round? PhD C: Right, yeah. PhD D: Yeah. PhD F: Uh - huh. PhD C: Um <unk>disfmarker<unk> Yeah. So and the, fff <unk>comment<unk> comments seems <unk>disfmarker<unk> from the reviewer are good. Question: Summarize the discussion on quals and phase normalization Answer:

Grad A was working on cheating experiments to study classification of phones for his qualifying exam. Grad G fixed a bug in his Matlab code for phase normalization and started receiving better results.

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Text: PhD F: OK. Professor B: Uh. Somebody else should run this. I'm sick of being the one to sort of go through and say, " Well, what do you think about this? " You wanna <unk>disfmarker<unk>? PhD D: Yeah. PhD F: Should we take turns? You want me to run it today? Professor B: Yeah. Why don't you run it today? OK. PhD F: OK. OK. Um. Let's see, maybe we should just get a list of items <unk>disfmarker<unk> things that we should talk about. Um, I guess there's the usual <unk>pause<unk> updates, everybody going around and saying, uh, you know, what they're working on, the things that happened the last week. But aside from that is there anything in particular that anybody wants to bring up PhD D: Mmm. PhD F: for today? No? OK. So why don't we just around and people can give updates. PhD E: Oh. PhD F: Uh, do you want to start, Stephane? PhD C: Alright. Um. Well, the first thing maybe is that the p Eurospeech paper is, uh, accepted. Um. Yeah. PhD F: This is <unk>disfmarker<unk> what <unk>disfmarker<unk> what do you, uh <unk>disfmarker<unk> what's in the paper there? PhD C: So it's the paper that describe basically the, um, system that were proposed for the <unk>pause<unk> Aurora. PhD F: The one that we s we submitted the last round? PhD C: Right, yeah. PhD D: Yeah. PhD F: Uh - huh. PhD C: Um <unk>disfmarker<unk> Yeah. So and the, fff <unk>comment<unk> comments seems <unk>disfmarker<unk> from the reviewer are good. So. Question: What did the professor think about phase normalization? Answer:

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

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Text: PhD F: OK. Professor B: Uh. Somebody else should run this. I'm sick of being the one to sort of go through and say, " Well, what do you think about this? " You wanna <unk>disfmarker<unk>? PhD D: Yeah. PhD F: Should we take turns? You want me to run it today? Professor B: Yeah. Why don't you run it today? OK. PhD F: OK. OK. Um. Let's see, maybe we should just get a list of items <unk>disfmarker<unk> things that we should talk about. Um, I guess there's the usual <unk>pause<unk> updates, everybody going around and saying, uh, you know, what they're working on, the things that happened the last week. But aside from that is there anything in particular that anybody wants to bring up PhD D: Mmm. PhD F: for today? No? OK. So why don't we just around and people can give updates. PhD E: Oh. PhD F: Uh, do you want to start, Stephane? PhD C: Alright. Um. Well, the first thing maybe is that the p Eurospeech paper is, uh, accepted. Um. Yeah. PhD F: This is <unk>disfmarker<unk> what <unk>disfmarker<unk> what do you, uh <unk>disfmarker<unk> what's in the paper there? PhD C: So it's the paper that describe basically the, um, system that were proposed for the <unk>pause<unk> Aurora. PhD F: The one that we s we submitted the last round? PhD C: Right, yeah. PhD D: Yeah. PhD F: Uh - huh. PhD C: Um <unk>disfmarker<unk> Yeah. So and the, fff <unk>comment<unk> comments seems <unk>disfmarker<unk> from the reviewer are good. Question: What did Grad A think about the experiments Grad A was running? Answer:

Grad A thought that the experiments would explain which categories were good for speech recognition. The experiments would do phone recognition with TIMIT and the output would go into a standard recognizer, maybe Chronos.

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Text: PhD F: OK. Professor B: Uh. Somebody else should run this. I'm sick of being the one to sort of go through and say, " Well, what do you think about this? " You wanna <unk>disfmarker<unk>? PhD D: Yeah. PhD F: Should we take turns? You want me to run it today? Professor B: Yeah. Why don't you run it today? OK. PhD F: OK. OK. Um. Let's see, maybe we should just get a list of items <unk>disfmarker<unk> things that we should talk about. Um, I guess there's the usual <unk>pause<unk> updates, everybody going around and saying, uh, you know, what they're working on, the things that happened the last week. But aside from that is there anything in particular that anybody wants to bring up PhD D: Mmm. PhD F: for today? No? OK. So why don't we just around and people can give updates. PhD E: Oh. PhD F: Uh, do you want to start, Stephane? PhD C: Alright. Um. Well, the first thing maybe is that the p Eurospeech paper is, uh, accepted. Um. Yeah. PhD F: This is <unk>disfmarker<unk> what <unk>disfmarker<unk> what do you, uh <unk>disfmarker<unk> what's in the paper there? PhD C: So it's the paper that describe basically the, um, system that were proposed for the <unk>pause<unk> Aurora. PhD F: The one that we s we submitted the last round? PhD C: Right, yeah. PhD D: Yeah. PhD F: Uh - huh. PhD C: Um <unk>disfmarker<unk> Yeah. So and the, fff <unk>comment<unk> comments seems <unk>disfmarker<unk> from the reviewer are good. So. PhD F: Hmm Question: Summarize the meeting Answer:

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

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Text: User Interface: Okay. Project Manager: So I see all everybody's here, 'kay. Marketing: Mm-hmm. Industrial Designer: Yep. Project Manager: And we can start meeting. User Interface: Okay <unk>vocalsound<unk>. Marketing: What's the agenda for this meeting? Project Manager: The <unk>disfmarker<unk> I will uh present here agenda with with with with slides to you. Marketing: Okay. Project Manager: Um as you can see here. Industrial Designer: <unk>vocalsound<unk> User Interface: <unk>vocalsound<unk> Industrial Designer: Perfect. Project Manager: So first uh just to mention I will take notes uh of this meeting Marketing: Mm-hmm. Project Manager: and uh I will try to work them out and give them to you. I've also made notes of the previous meeting and um I was about to send them you but <unk>vocalsound<unk> then uh I had to go to this uh meeting so you will get them too uh Marketing: Mm-hmm. User Interface: Next. Project Manager: Um. Industrial Designer: So y you are the secretary also. Project Manager: Yes. Indeed. Industrial Designer: Right? Okay. Project Manager: Then I hope you all have uh worked out <unk>vocalsound<unk> some some uh <unk>vocalsound<unk> some some presentations about uh about well you the the task given to you in the previous meeting. Industrial Designer: Perfectly yeah yeah of course uh-huh. User Interface: <unk>gap<unk> Project Manager: Um. W We will uh in a minute we will uh <unk>vocalsound<unk> start with them. Um, we will see in which order we will handle them of. Um then I will uh bring in some some some new requirements I I got uh from the uh account manager, I try to work them out, they were quite abstract, and we can have maybe have com some discussion about it. Uh Um about the functions Question: Summarize the group discussion about video demand, teletext demand, and thick keys design. Answer:

First of all, Project Manager launched a discussion about video over-demand, during which User Interface and Industrial Designer mentioned some fancy functions like downloading and streamlining. Then, Project Manager announced that according to the account manager, teletext could be included in the discussion, though its obsolescence incurred doubts over its usability and necessity. After that, Project Manager offered a choice question between television and further recording devices represented by DVDs, VCRs, and hard disk recorders. Finally, to cater for the younger people, User Interface devised big thick keys for RC in imitation of mobile phones, which received positive feedback from other team members.

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Text: User Interface: Okay. Project Manager: So I see all everybody's here, 'kay. Marketing: Mm-hmm. Industrial Designer: Yep. Project Manager: And we can start meeting. User Interface: Okay <unk>vocalsound<unk>. Marketing: What's the agenda for this meeting? Project Manager: The <unk>disfmarker<unk> I will uh present here agenda with with with with slides to you. Marketing: Okay. Project Manager: Um as you can see here. Industrial Designer: <unk>vocalsound<unk> User Interface: <unk>vocalsound<unk> Industrial Designer: Perfect. Project Manager: So first uh just to mention I will take notes uh of this meeting Marketing: Mm-hmm. Project Manager: and uh I will try to work them out and give them to you. I've also made notes of the previous meeting and um I was about to send them you but <unk>vocalsound<unk> then uh I had to go to this uh meeting so you will get them too uh Marketing: Mm-hmm. User Interface: Next. Project Manager: Um. Industrial Designer: So y you are the secretary also. Project Manager: Yes. Indeed. Industrial Designer: Right? Okay. Project Manager: Then I hope you all have uh worked out <unk>vocalsound<unk> some some uh <unk>vocalsound<unk> some some presentations about uh about well you the the task given to you in the previous meeting. Industrial Designer: Perfectly yeah yeah of course uh-huh. User Interface: <unk>gap<unk> Project Manager: Um. W We will uh in a minute we will uh <unk>vocalsound<unk> start with them. Um, we will see in which order we will handle them of. Um then I will uh bring in some some some new requirements I I got uh from the uh account manager, I try to work them out, they were quite abstract, and we can have maybe have com some discussion about it. Uh Um about the functions Marketing: Mm-hmm. Question: What attitudes did Project Manager hold towards teletext? Answer:

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.

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Text: User Interface: Okay. Project Manager: So I see all everybody's here, 'kay. Marketing: Mm-hmm. Industrial Designer: Yep. Project Manager: And we can start meeting. User Interface: Okay <unk>vocalsound<unk>. Marketing: What's the agenda for this meeting? Project Manager: The <unk>disfmarker<unk> I will uh present here agenda with with with with slides to you. Marketing: Okay. Project Manager: Um as you can see here. Industrial Designer: <unk>vocalsound<unk> User Interface: <unk>vocalsound<unk> Industrial Designer: Perfect. Project Manager: So first uh just to mention I will take notes uh of this meeting Marketing: Mm-hmm. Project Manager: and uh I will try to work them out and give them to you. I've also made notes of the previous meeting and um I was about to send them you but <unk>vocalsound<unk> then uh I had to go to this uh meeting so you will get them too uh Marketing: Mm-hmm. User Interface: Next. Project Manager: Um. Industrial Designer: So y you are the secretary also. Project Manager: Yes. Indeed. Industrial Designer: Right? Okay. Project Manager: Then I hope you all have uh worked out <unk>vocalsound<unk> some some uh <unk>vocalsound<unk> some some presentations about uh about well you the the task given to you in the previous meeting. Industrial Designer: Perfectly yeah yeah of course uh-huh. User Interface: <unk>gap<unk> Project Manager: Um. W We will uh in a minute we will uh <unk>vocalsound<unk> start with them. Um, we will see in which order we will handle them of. Um then I will uh bring in some some some new requirements I I got uh from the uh account manager, I try to work them out, they were quite abstract, and we can have maybe have com some discussion about it. Uh Um about the functions Marketing: Mm-hmm Question: What were the advantages of big thick keys proposed by User Interface? Answer:

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

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Text: User Interface: Okay. Project Manager: So I see all everybody's here, 'kay. Marketing: Mm-hmm. Industrial Designer: Yep. Project Manager: And we can start meeting. User Interface: Okay <unk>vocalsound<unk>. Marketing: What's the agenda for this meeting? Project Manager: The <unk>disfmarker<unk> I will uh present here agenda with with with with slides to you. Marketing: Okay. Project Manager: Um as you can see here. Industrial Designer: <unk>vocalsound<unk> User Interface: <unk>vocalsound<unk> Industrial Designer: Perfect. Project Manager: So first uh just to mention I will take notes uh of this meeting Marketing: Mm-hmm. Project Manager: and uh I will try to work them out and give them to you. I've also made notes of the previous meeting and um I was about to send them you but <unk>vocalsound<unk> then uh I had to go to this uh meeting so you will get them too uh Marketing: Mm-hmm. User Interface: Next. Project Manager: Um. Industrial Designer: So y you are the secretary also. Project Manager: Yes. Indeed. Industrial Designer: Right? Okay. Project Manager: Then I hope you all have uh worked out <unk>vocalsound<unk> some some uh <unk>vocalsound<unk> some some presentations about uh about well you the the task given to you in the previous meeting. Industrial Designer: Perfectly yeah yeah of course uh-huh. User Interface: <unk>gap<unk> Project Manager: Um. W We will uh in a minute we will uh <unk>vocalsound<unk> start with them. Um, we will see in which order we will handle them of. Um then I will uh bring in some some some new requirements I I got uh from the uh account manager, I try to work them out, they were quite abstract, and we can have maybe have com some discussion about it. Uh Um about the functions Marketing: Mm Question: Summarize the group discussion about the target group and corresponding functionalities. Answer:

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.

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Text: User Interface: Okay. Project Manager: So I see all everybody's here, 'kay. Marketing: Mm-hmm. Industrial Designer: Yep. Project Manager: And we can start meeting. User Interface: Okay <unk>vocalsound<unk>. Marketing: What's the agenda for this meeting? Project Manager: The <unk>disfmarker<unk> I will uh present here agenda with with with with slides to you. Marketing: Okay. Project Manager: Um as you can see here. Industrial Designer: <unk>vocalsound<unk> User Interface: <unk>vocalsound<unk> Industrial Designer: Perfect. Project Manager: So first uh just to mention I will take notes uh of this meeting Marketing: Mm-hmm. Project Manager: and uh I will try to work them out and give them to you. I've also made notes of the previous meeting and um I was about to send them you but <unk>vocalsound<unk> then uh I had to go to this uh meeting so you will get them too uh Marketing: Mm-hmm. User Interface: Next. Project Manager: Um. Industrial Designer: So y you are the secretary also. Project Manager: Yes. Indeed. Industrial Designer: Right? Okay. Project Manager: Then I hope you all have uh worked out <unk>vocalsound<unk> some some uh <unk>vocalsound<unk> some some presentations about uh about well you the the task given to you in the previous meeting. Industrial Designer: Perfectly yeah yeah of course uh-huh. User Interface: <unk>gap<unk> Project Manager: Um. W We will uh in a minute we will uh <unk>vocalsound<unk> start with them. Um, we will see in which order we will handle them of. Um then I will uh bring in some some some new requirements I I got uh from the uh account manager, I try to work them out, they were quite abstract, and we can have maybe have com some discussion about it. Uh Um about the functions Marketing: Mm-hmm Question: Who did Marketing think the remote control should target and why? Answer:

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.

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Text: User Interface: Okay. Project Manager: So I see all everybody's here, 'kay. Marketing: Mm-hmm. Industrial Designer: Yep. Project Manager: And we can start meeting. User Interface: Okay <unk>vocalsound<unk>. Marketing: What's the agenda for this meeting? Project Manager: The <unk>disfmarker<unk> I will uh present here agenda with with with with slides to you. Marketing: Okay. Project Manager: Um as you can see here. Industrial Designer: <unk>vocalsound<unk> User Interface: <unk>vocalsound<unk> Industrial Designer: Perfect. Project Manager: So first uh just to mention I will take notes uh of this meeting Marketing: Mm-hmm. Project Manager: and uh I will try to work them out and give them to you. I've also made notes of the previous meeting and um I was about to send them you but <unk>vocalsound<unk> then uh I had to go to this uh meeting so you will get them too uh Marketing: Mm-hmm. User Interface: Next. Project Manager: Um. Industrial Designer: So y you are the secretary also. Project Manager: Yes. Indeed. Industrial Designer: Right? Okay. Project Manager: Then I hope you all have uh worked out <unk>vocalsound<unk> some some uh <unk>vocalsound<unk> some some presentations about uh about well you the the task given to you in the previous meeting. Industrial Designer: Perfectly yeah yeah of course uh-huh. User Interface: <unk>gap<unk> Project Manager: Um. W We will uh in a minute we will uh <unk>vocalsound<unk> start with them. Um, we will see in which order we will handle them of. Um then I will uh bring in some some some new requirements I I got uh from the uh account manager, I try to work them out, they were quite abstract, and we can have maybe have com some discussion about it. Uh Um about the functions Marketing: Mm-hmm. Project Question: What decision did the group make on universal remote? Answer:

When Marketing first touched on the idea of a universal remote, she quickly rebutted herself, arguing that a high-end product was not achievable with a tight budget. However, Project Manager said that the group could make an attempt to provide a basic version of universal control, which could switch between stereo, VC, and TV. Thus, the group agreed to give universal remote a try and see if they could design a cheap one within budget.

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Text: User Interface: Okay. Project Manager: So I see all everybody's here, 'kay. Marketing: Mm-hmm. Industrial Designer: Yep. Project Manager: And we can start meeting. User Interface: Okay <unk>vocalsound<unk>. Marketing: What's the agenda for this meeting? Project Manager: The <unk>disfmarker<unk> I will uh present here agenda with with with with slides to you. Marketing: Okay. Project Manager: Um as you can see here. Industrial Designer: <unk>vocalsound<unk> User Interface: <unk>vocalsound<unk> Industrial Designer: Perfect. Project Manager: So first uh just to mention I will take notes uh of this meeting Marketing: Mm-hmm. Project Manager: and uh I will try to work them out and give them to you. I've also made notes of the previous meeting and um I was about to send them you but <unk>vocalsound<unk> then uh I had to go to this uh meeting so you will get them too uh Marketing: Mm-hmm. User Interface: Next. Project Manager: Um. Industrial Designer: So y you are the secretary also. Project Manager: Yes. Indeed. Industrial Designer: Right? Okay. Project Manager: Then I hope you all have uh worked out <unk>vocalsound<unk> some some uh <unk>vocalsound<unk> some some presentations about uh about well you the the task given to you in the previous meeting. Industrial Designer: Perfectly yeah yeah of course uh-huh. User Interface: <unk>gap<unk> Project Manager: Um. W We will uh in a minute we will uh <unk>vocalsound<unk> start with them. Um, we will see in which order we will handle them of. Um then I will uh bring in some some some new requirements I I got uh from the uh account manager, I try to work them out, they were quite abstract, and we can have maybe have com some discussion about it. Uh Um about the functions Marketing: Mm-hmm. Project Manager: and Question: Summarize the whole meeting. Answer:

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

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Text: Project Manager: Okay. Hello everyone. <unk>vocalsound<unk> <unk>vocalsound<unk> Industrial Designer: Hi. User Interface: Hi. Marketing: Hi. Project Manager: Um how uh how we doing? Industrial Designer: Yeah, good. Project Manager: Uh first we going uh over the minutes of the last meeting, more or less. User Interface: Mm-hmm. Project Manager: Um in the last meeting uh the marketing manager had presented uh her method of working, meaning gathering i suggestions from everyone to see how she best could market uh this this product at the <unk>disfmarker<unk> within the budget uh that was given. Uh in general <unk>vocalsound<unk> the idea is that it should be something that is not difficult to use. Um it's also an item that people lose a lot. So we should address that. And, of course, it should be something s s that is very simple to use. In addition to that to make it sell, of course, uh the marketing manager w wishes that it be very attractive, Marketing: <unk>vocalsound<unk> Project Manager: or like she says put some sizzle into it in one way or another so that the people are buying it now because, in particular with smaller items, that's a very important fact, 'cause um if they say, well, I go home and think about it, that won't work. Um also mentioned was it should be uh <unk>disfmarker<unk> it should have a very short learning curve. And maybe it could be sold by using a slogan. Industrial Designer: Hmm. Project Manager: <unk>vocalsound<unk> Our technical manager has then said that she feels it should have a chip Marketing: <unk>vocalsound<unk> Project Manager: that has infra-red bits and it has an interface controls w interface that controls the chip. Therefore, messages uh will be controlled in the same manner. There should be extra features like lid buttons, maybe a beep. If too many buttons are Question: Summarize the recap of the last meeting. Answer:

The general idea for the remote was that it should be easy to use, attractive and electricity saving. People might lose it a lot and it could be sold by using a slogan. For the technical aspect, the remote should have a chip with an interface that controls it, infrared bulbs, battery, wires, buttons and holder. There should be extra features such as timer, lid buttons, on-off button, channel lock and display clock. The remote could be in different shapes, preferably compact and T-shaped. The material should be of non-allergic nature. The different systems that exist were infrared and radio-waves.

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Text: Project Manager: Okay. Hello everyone. <unk>vocalsound<unk> <unk>vocalsound<unk> Industrial Designer: Hi. User Interface: Hi. Marketing: Hi. Project Manager: Um how uh how we doing? Industrial Designer: Yeah, good. Project Manager: Uh first we going uh over the minutes of the last meeting, more or less. User Interface: Mm-hmm. Project Manager: Um in the last meeting uh the marketing manager had presented uh her method of working, meaning gathering i suggestions from everyone to see how she best could market uh this this product at the <unk>disfmarker<unk> within the budget uh that was given. Uh in general <unk>vocalsound<unk> the idea is that it should be something that is not difficult to use. Um it's also an item that people lose a lot. So we should address that. And, of course, it should be something s s that is very simple to use. In addition to that to make it sell, of course, uh the marketing manager w wishes that it be very attractive, Marketing: <unk>vocalsound<unk> Project Manager: or like she says put some sizzle into it in one way or another so that the people are buying it now because, in particular with smaller items, that's a very important fact, 'cause um if they say, well, I go home and think about it, that won't work. Um also mentioned was it should be uh <unk>disfmarker<unk> it should have a very short learning curve. And maybe it could be sold by using a slogan. Industrial Designer: Hmm. Project Manager: <unk>vocalsound<unk> Our technical manager has then said that she feels it should have a chip Marketing: <unk>vocalsound<unk> Project Manager: that has infra-red bits and it has an interface controls w interface that controls the chip. Therefore, messages uh will be controlled in the same manner. There should be extra features like lid buttons, maybe a beep. If too many buttons are Question: What would be the interface design of the remote? Answer:

There would be nine channel switches and a memory switch. There would be buttons for the next channel, subtitles, increasing and decreasing volume, mute and controlling features like colour, contrast, sharpness, brightness of picture. There also could be a speech recognition feature, which would be an integrated programmable sample sensor speaker unit that had voice recognizers to record the user's voice and change functionalities accordingly. It was agreed that the interface should be simple with important features.

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Text: Project Manager: Okay. Hello everyone. <unk>vocalsound<unk> <unk>vocalsound<unk> Industrial Designer: Hi. User Interface: Hi. Marketing: Hi. Project Manager: Um how uh how we doing? Industrial Designer: Yeah, good. Project Manager: Uh first we going uh over the minutes of the last meeting, more or less. User Interface: Mm-hmm. Project Manager: Um in the last meeting uh the marketing manager had presented uh her method of working, meaning gathering i suggestions from everyone to see how she best could market uh this this product at the <unk>disfmarker<unk> within the budget uh that was given. Uh in general <unk>vocalsound<unk> the idea is that it should be something that is not difficult to use. Um it's also an item that people lose a lot. So we should address that. And, of course, it should be something s s that is very simple to use. In addition to that to make it sell, of course, uh the marketing manager w wishes that it be very attractive, Marketing: <unk>vocalsound<unk> Project Manager: or like she says put some sizzle into it in one way or another so that the people are buying it now because, in particular with smaller items, that's a very important fact, 'cause um if they say, well, I go home and think about it, that won't work. Um also mentioned was it should be uh <unk>disfmarker<unk> it should have a very short learning curve. And maybe it could be sold by using a slogan. Industrial Designer: Hmm. Project Manager: <unk>vocalsound<unk> Our technical manager has then said that she feels it should have a chip Marketing: <unk>vocalsound<unk> Project Manager: that has infra-red bits and it has an interface controls w interface that controls the chip. Therefore, messages uh will be controlled in the same manner. There should be extra features like lid buttons, maybe Question: What did the team think about the slides with different types of the interface during the discussion of the interface design? Answer:

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

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Text: Project Manager: Okay. Hello everyone. <unk>vocalsound<unk> <unk>vocalsound<unk> Industrial Designer: Hi. User Interface: Hi. Marketing: Hi. Project Manager: Um how uh how we doing? Industrial Designer: Yeah, good. Project Manager: Uh first we going uh over the minutes of the last meeting, more or less. User Interface: Mm-hmm. Project Manager: Um in the last meeting uh the marketing manager had presented uh her method of working, meaning gathering i suggestions from everyone to see how she best could market uh this this product at the <unk>disfmarker<unk> within the budget uh that was given. Uh in general <unk>vocalsound<unk> the idea is that it should be something that is not difficult to use. Um it's also an item that people lose a lot. So we should address that. And, of course, it should be something s s that is very simple to use. In addition to that to make it sell, of course, uh the marketing manager w wishes that it be very attractive, Marketing: <unk>vocalsound<unk> Project Manager: or like she says put some sizzle into it in one way or another so that the people are buying it now because, in particular with smaller items, that's a very important fact, 'cause um if they say, well, I go home and think about it, that won't work. Um also mentioned was it should be uh <unk>disfmarker<unk> it should have a very short learning curve. And maybe it could be sold by using a slogan. Industrial Designer: Hmm. Project Manager: <unk>vocalsound<unk> Our technical manager has then said that she feels it should have a chip Marketing: <unk>vocalsound<unk> Project Manager: that has infra-red bits and it has an interface controls w interface that controls the chip. Therefore, messages uh will be controlled in the same manner. There should be extra features like lid buttons, maybe Question: What were the components discussed during the presentation of the component design that were required for the construction of the remote control? Answer:

There should be a strong and recyclable case that was not made from harmful materials such as plastic. A resistor, capacitor, diode, transistor, circuit board and resonator should be in the remote, along with a timer and alarm facility. The integrated circuit could be highly sophisticated for higher efficiency and should be resistant to high and low temperatures. Also, colouring components could be used if the remote was to have different colours. For the battery, it could be rechargeable as people can use it for a long time and saves costs for production.

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Text: Project Manager: Okay. Hello everyone. <unk>vocalsound<unk> <unk>vocalsound<unk> Industrial Designer: Hi. User Interface: Hi. Marketing: Hi. Project Manager: Um how uh how we doing? Industrial Designer: Yeah, good. Project Manager: Uh first we going uh over the minutes of the last meeting, more or less. User Interface: Mm-hmm. Project Manager: Um in the last meeting uh the marketing manager had presented uh her method of working, meaning gathering i suggestions from everyone to see how she best could market uh this this product at the <unk>disfmarker<unk> within the budget uh that was given. Uh in general <unk>vocalsound<unk> the idea is that it should be something that is not difficult to use. Um it's also an item that people lose a lot. So we should address that. And, of course, it should be something s s that is very simple to use. In addition to that to make it sell, of course, uh the marketing manager w wishes that it be very attractive, Marketing: <unk>vocalsound<unk> Project Manager: or like she says put some sizzle into it in one way or another so that the people are buying it now because, in particular with smaller items, that's a very important fact, 'cause um if they say, well, I go home and think about it, that won't work. Um also mentioned was it should be uh <unk>disfmarker<unk> it should have a very short learning curve. And maybe it could be sold by using a slogan. Industrial Designer: Hmm. Project Manager: <unk>vocalsound<unk> Our technical manager has then said that she feels it should have a chip Marketing: <unk>vocalsound<unk> Project Manager: that has infra-red bits and it has an interface controls w interface that controls the chip. Therefore, messages uh will be controlled in the same manner. There should be extra features like lid buttons, maybe a be Question: What did Industrial Designer say about the working design of the remote during the discussion of the component design? Answer:

When a button was pressed, a small circuit underneath the button would send signals through the wires to the chip. The chip would know which button was pressed and produce a morse code signal specific to that button, which the transistor would amplify the signal. The LED would receive the signal and translate it into infrared light. The sensor on the TV would receive the infrared light which contained the signals and would react accordingly.

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Text: Project Manager: Okay. Hello everyone. <unk>vocalsound<unk> <unk>vocalsound<unk> Industrial Designer: Hi. User Interface: Hi. Marketing: Hi. Project Manager: Um how uh how we doing? Industrial Designer: Yeah, good. Project Manager: Uh first we going uh over the minutes of the last meeting, more or less. User Interface: Mm-hmm. Project Manager: Um in the last meeting uh the marketing manager had presented uh her method of working, meaning gathering i suggestions from everyone to see how she best could market uh this this product at the <unk>disfmarker<unk> within the budget uh that was given. Uh in general <unk>vocalsound<unk> the idea is that it should be something that is not difficult to use. Um it's also an item that people lose a lot. So we should address that. And, of course, it should be something s s that is very simple to use. In addition to that to make it sell, of course, uh the marketing manager w wishes that it be very attractive, Marketing: <unk>vocalsound<unk> Project Manager: or like she says put some sizzle into it in one way or another so that the people are buying it now because, in particular with smaller items, that's a very important fact, 'cause um if they say, well, I go home and think about it, that won't work. Um also mentioned was it should be uh <unk>disfmarker<unk> it should have a very short learning curve. And maybe it could be sold by using a slogan. Industrial Designer: Hmm. Project Manager: <unk>vocalsound<unk> Our technical manager has then said that she feels it should have a chip Marketing: <unk>vocalsound<unk> Project Manager: that has infra-red bits and it has an interface controls w interface that controls the chip. Therefore, messages uh will be controlled in the same manner. There should be extra features like lid buttons, maybe a beep. If too many buttons are Question: What was agreed by the team about the component design? Answer:

It was agreed that the circuit board would be printed in bulk as it would be cheaper with no wires and both regular and advanced chips could be made on print, including the infrared sender. A scroll wheel, presented as an alternative to push buttons, required a more sophisticated chip, making it more costly than push buttons, which require a regular chip. Hence, the team agreed to have push buttons to save cost. On the other hand, the case would be bright, colourful and strong with a trendy design. The battery was foreseen to be the energy source of the remote.

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Text: Project Manager: Okay. Hello everyone. <unk>vocalsound<unk> <unk>vocalsound<unk> Industrial Designer: Hi. User Interface: Hi. Marketing: Hi. Project Manager: Um how uh how we doing? Industrial Designer: Yeah, good. Project Manager: Uh first we going uh over the minutes of the last meeting, more or less. User Interface: Mm-hmm. Project Manager: Um in the last meeting uh the marketing manager had presented uh her method of working, meaning gathering i suggestions from everyone to see how she best could market uh this this product at the <unk>disfmarker<unk> within the budget uh that was given. Uh in general <unk>vocalsound<unk> the idea is that it should be something that is not difficult to use. Um it's also an item that people lose a lot. So we should address that. And, of course, it should be something s s that is very simple to use. In addition to that to make it sell, of course, uh the marketing manager w wishes that it be very attractive, Marketing: <unk>vocalsound<unk> Project Manager: or like she says put some sizzle into it in one way or another so that the people are buying it now because, in particular with smaller items, that's a very important fact, 'cause um if they say, well, I go home and think about it, that won't work. Um also mentioned was it should be uh <unk>disfmarker<unk> it should have a very short learning curve. And maybe it could be sold by using a slogan. Industrial Designer: Hmm. Project Manager: <unk>vocalsound<unk> Our technical manager has then said that she feels it should have a chip Marketing: <unk>vocalsound<unk> Project Manager: that has infra-red bits and it has an interface controls w interface that controls the chip. Therefore, messages uh will be controlled in the same manner. There should be extra features like lid buttons, maybe a beep. If too many buttons are Question: What was left open to discuss about the component design? Answer:

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

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Text: Project Manager: Okay. Hello everyone. <unk>vocalsound<unk> <unk>vocalsound<unk> Industrial Designer: Hi. User Interface: Hi. Marketing: Hi. Project Manager: Um how uh how we doing? Industrial Designer: Yeah, good. Project Manager: Uh first we going uh over the minutes of the last meeting, more or less. User Interface: Mm-hmm. Project Manager: Um in the last meeting uh the marketing manager had presented uh her method of working, meaning gathering i suggestions from everyone to see how she best could market uh this this product at the <unk>disfmarker<unk> within the budget uh that was given. Uh in general <unk>vocalsound<unk> the idea is that it should be something that is not difficult to use. Um it's also an item that people lose a lot. So we should address that. And, of course, it should be something s s that is very simple to use. In addition to that to make it sell, of course, uh the marketing manager w wishes that it be very attractive, Marketing: <unk>vocalsound<unk> Project Manager: or like she says put some sizzle into it in one way or another so that the people are buying it now because, in particular with smaller items, that's a very important fact, 'cause um if they say, well, I go home and think about it, that won't work. Um also mentioned was it should be uh <unk>disfmarker<unk> it should have a very short learning curve. And maybe it could be sold by using a slogan. Industrial Designer: Hmm. Project Manager: <unk>vocalsound<unk> Our technical manager has then said that she feels it should have a chip Marketing: <unk>vocalsound<unk> Project Manager: that has infra-red bits and it has an interface controls w interface that controls the chip. Therefore, messages uh will be controlled in the same manner. There should be extra features like lid buttons, maybe a beep. If too many buttons are Question: Summarize the presentation about findings for marketing. Answer:

People liked something that fit their hand and fewer buttons which the functions were obvious. They didn't want to squint at small prints and didn't care for different modes. The appearance of the remote should be eye-catching and appealing. The remote had to be in the market before competition for Christmas. Fruit and vegetable shapes were very popular this year and people were back into a soft and spongy feel with a little cloth. The star features of the remote should be narrowed down to one or two and voice recognizer could be an option.

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Text: Project Manager: Okay. Hello everyone. <unk>vocalsound<unk> <unk>vocalsound<unk> Industrial Designer: Hi. User Interface: Hi. Marketing: Hi. Project Manager: Um how uh how we doing? Industrial Designer: Yeah, good. Project Manager: Uh first we going uh over the minutes of the last meeting, more or less. User Interface: Mm-hmm. Project Manager: Um in the last meeting uh the marketing manager had presented uh her method of working, meaning gathering i suggestions from everyone to see how she best could market uh this this product at the <unk>disfmarker<unk> within the budget uh that was given. Uh in general <unk>vocalsound<unk> the idea is that it should be something that is not difficult to use. Um it's also an item that people lose a lot. So we should address that. And, of course, it should be something s s that is very simple to use. In addition to that to make it sell, of course, uh the marketing manager w wishes that it be very attractive, Marketing: <unk>vocalsound<unk> Project Manager: or like she says put some sizzle into it in one way or another so that the people are buying it now because, in particular with smaller items, that's a very important fact, 'cause um if they say, well, I go home and think about it, that won't work. Um also mentioned was it should be uh <unk>disfmarker<unk> it should have a very short learning curve. And maybe it could be sold by using a slogan. Industrial Designer: Hmm. Project Manager: <unk>vocalsound<unk> Our technical manager has then said that she feels it should have a chip Marketing: <unk>vocalsound<unk> Project Manager: that has infra-red bits and it has an interface controls w interface that controls the chip. Therefore, messages uh will be controlled in the same manner. There should be extra features like lid buttons, maybe a beep. If too many buttons are Question: Summarize the wrap up of the meeting. Answer:

Industrial Designer was supposed to have the look and feel of the design, User Interface should have come up with user interface design and Marketing should have the product evaluation for the next meeting. Furthermore, User Interface and Marketing had to work together on a prototype using modelling clay and everyone would receive specific instructions sent by coaches.

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Text: Project Manager: Okay. Hello everyone. <unk>vocalsound<unk> <unk>vocalsound<unk> Industrial Designer: Hi. User Interface: Hi. Marketing: Hi. Project Manager: Um how uh how we doing? Industrial Designer: Yeah, good. Project Manager: Uh first we going uh over the minutes of the last meeting, more or less. User Interface: Mm-hmm. Project Manager: Um in the last meeting uh the marketing manager had presented uh her method of working, meaning gathering i suggestions from everyone to see how she best could market uh this this product at the <unk>disfmarker<unk> within the budget uh that was given. Uh in general <unk>vocalsound<unk> the idea is that it should be something that is not difficult to use. Um it's also an item that people lose a lot. So we should address that. And, of course, it should be something s s that is very simple to use. In addition to that to make it sell, of course, uh the marketing manager w wishes that it be very attractive, Marketing: <unk>vocalsound<unk> Project Manager: or like she says put some sizzle into it in one way or another so that the people are buying it now because, in particular with smaller items, that's a very important fact, 'cause um if they say, well, I go home and think about it, that won't work. Um also mentioned was it should be uh <unk>disfmarker<unk> it should have a very short learning curve. And maybe it could be sold by using a slogan. Industrial Designer: Hmm. Project Manager: <unk>vocalsound<unk> Our technical manager has then said that she feels it should have a chip Marketing: <unk>vocalsound<unk> Project Manager: that has infra-red bits and it has an interface controls w interface that controls the chip. Therefore, messages uh will be controlled in the same manner. There should be extra features like lid buttons, maybe a beep. If too many buttons are pressed, Question: Summarize the whole meeting. Answer:

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

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Text: User Interface: Okay. Industrial Designer: Okay, almost there. Project Manager: Okay. We'll sta I'll use the PowerPoint, I guess. How was that, was that fun? User Interface: Mm. Very fun. Industrial Designer: Yeah, yeah. Project Manager: <unk>vocalsound<unk> Okay. Uh oh I've forgotten to mail you the minutes, but I will do. Industrial Designer: Okay. Marketing: Hmm. Project Manager: <unk>vocalsound<unk> Upsidaisy. <unk>vocalsound<unk> Um <unk>vocalsound<unk> <unk>vocalsound<unk> Um we <unk>disfmarker<unk> Marketing: E excuse me I forgot my Project Manager: Yeah. Marketing: copy. <unk>gap<unk> Project Manager: Alright, okay, yeah. Industrial Designer: <unk>vocalsound<unk> Project Manager: He's gonna get his pen. User Interface: Oh right. Okay. Project Manager: Um <unk>vocalsound<unk> Will you guys first with your prototype um before we get to the good news? Industrial Designer: Yeah, there's good news? Project Manager: Uh <unk>vocalsound<unk> <unk>vocalsound<unk> Industrial Designer: Oh. User Interface: Mm. Project Manager: we have budget problems. Industrial Designer: Oh. Cutbacks. Project Manager: I'm afraid you're all sacked. Oops. Industrial Designer: <unk>vocalsound<unk> Project Manager: I don't even have this on. <unk>vocalsound<unk> Industrial Designer: Hmm. Project Manager: <unk>vocalsound<unk> <unk>vocalsound<unk> Okay, have you got a presentation to make? Industrial Designer: Okay. Marketing: No, not mine yet. Project Manager: No. Okay Industrial Designer: Oh. Project Manager: so it's just your your show. Industrial Designer: Um maybe we should bring <unk>gap<unk> so that the camera can see <unk>gap<unk>. Yeah. Project Manager: <unk>vocalsound<unk> User Interface: Okay. Sure. Question: Summarize the discussion about the cost control. Answer:

According to Project Manager, currently, the new remote controls would cost fourteen point six Euros each. Unfortunately, that was two Euros over the budget. Then the team had a little discussion on how to reduce the cost. Eventually, the cost was reduced to eleven Euros sixty by adjusting two parts of the design. That left them plenty of room to add some other designs to the existing models. The final cost of the new remote controls was set at twelve Euros fifty each.

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Text: User Interface: Okay. Industrial Designer: Okay, almost there. Project Manager: Okay. We'll sta I'll use the PowerPoint, I guess. How was that, was that fun? User Interface: Mm. Very fun. Industrial Designer: Yeah, yeah. Project Manager: <unk>vocalsound<unk> Okay. Uh oh I've forgotten to mail you the minutes, but I will do. Industrial Designer: Okay. Marketing: Hmm. Project Manager: <unk>vocalsound<unk> Upsidaisy. <unk>vocalsound<unk> Um <unk>vocalsound<unk> <unk>vocalsound<unk> Um we <unk>disfmarker<unk> Marketing: E excuse me I forgot my Project Manager: Yeah. Marketing: copy. <unk>gap<unk> Project Manager: Alright, okay, yeah. Industrial Designer: <unk>vocalsound<unk> Project Manager: He's gonna get his pen. User Interface: Oh right. Okay. Project Manager: Um <unk>vocalsound<unk> Will you guys first with your prototype um before we get to the good news? Industrial Designer: Yeah, there's good news? Project Manager: Uh <unk>vocalsound<unk> <unk>vocalsound<unk> Industrial Designer: Oh. User Interface: Mm. Project Manager: we have budget problems. Industrial Designer: Oh. Cutbacks. Project Manager: I'm afraid you're all sacked. Oops. Industrial Designer: <unk>vocalsound<unk> Project Manager: I don't even have this on. <unk>vocalsound<unk> Industrial Designer: Hmm. Project Manager: <unk>vocalsound<unk> <unk>vocalsound<unk> Okay, have you got a presentation to make? Industrial Designer: Okay. Marketing: No, not mine yet. Project Manager: No. Okay Industrial Designer: Oh. Project Manager: so it's just your your show. Industrial Designer: Um maybe we should bring <unk>gap<unk> so that the camera can see <unk>gap<unk>. Yeah. Project Manager: <unk>vocalsound<unk> User Interface: Okay. Sure Question: What did the team eventually come up with to reduce costs? Answer:

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

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Text: User Interface: Okay. Industrial Designer: Okay, almost there. Project Manager: Okay. We'll sta I'll use the PowerPoint, I guess. How was that, was that fun? User Interface: Mm. Very fun. Industrial Designer: Yeah, yeah. Project Manager: <unk>vocalsound<unk> Okay. Uh oh I've forgotten to mail you the minutes, but I will do. Industrial Designer: Okay. Marketing: Hmm. Project Manager: <unk>vocalsound<unk> Upsidaisy. <unk>vocalsound<unk> Um <unk>vocalsound<unk> <unk>vocalsound<unk> Um we <unk>disfmarker<unk> Marketing: E excuse me I forgot my Project Manager: Yeah. Marketing: copy. <unk>gap<unk> Project Manager: Alright, okay, yeah. Industrial Designer: <unk>vocalsound<unk> Project Manager: He's gonna get his pen. User Interface: Oh right. Okay. Project Manager: Um <unk>vocalsound<unk> Will you guys first with your prototype um before we get to the good news? Industrial Designer: Yeah, there's good news? Project Manager: Uh <unk>vocalsound<unk> <unk>vocalsound<unk> Industrial Designer: Oh. User Interface: Mm. Project Manager: we have budget problems. Industrial Designer: Oh. Cutbacks. Project Manager: I'm afraid you're all sacked. Oops. Industrial Designer: <unk>vocalsound<unk> Project Manager: I don't even have this on. <unk>vocalsound<unk> Industrial Designer: Hmm. Project Manager: <unk>vocalsound<unk> <unk>vocalsound<unk> Okay, have you got a presentation to make? Industrial Designer: Okay. Marketing: No, not mine yet. Project Manager: No. Okay Industrial Designer: Oh. Project Manager: so it's just your your show. Industrial Designer: Um maybe we should bring <unk>gap<unk> so that the camera can see <unk>gap<unk>. Yeah. Project Manager: <unk>vocalsound<unk> User Interface: Question: What kind of design did the team finally decide to add with the extra budget? Answer:

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.

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Text: User Interface: Okay. Industrial Designer: Okay, almost there. Project Manager: Okay. We'll sta I'll use the PowerPoint, I guess. How was that, was that fun? User Interface: Mm. Very fun. Industrial Designer: Yeah, yeah. Project Manager: <unk>vocalsound<unk> Okay. Uh oh I've forgotten to mail you the minutes, but I will do. Industrial Designer: Okay. Marketing: Hmm. Project Manager: <unk>vocalsound<unk> Upsidaisy. <unk>vocalsound<unk> Um <unk>vocalsound<unk> <unk>vocalsound<unk> Um we <unk>disfmarker<unk> Marketing: E excuse me I forgot my Project Manager: Yeah. Marketing: copy. <unk>gap<unk> Project Manager: Alright, okay, yeah. Industrial Designer: <unk>vocalsound<unk> Project Manager: He's gonna get his pen. User Interface: Oh right. Okay. Project Manager: Um <unk>vocalsound<unk> Will you guys first with your prototype um before we get to the good news? Industrial Designer: Yeah, there's good news? Project Manager: Uh <unk>vocalsound<unk> <unk>vocalsound<unk> Industrial Designer: Oh. User Interface: Mm. Project Manager: we have budget problems. Industrial Designer: Oh. Cutbacks. Project Manager: I'm afraid you're all sacked. Oops. Industrial Designer: <unk>vocalsound<unk> Project Manager: I don't even have this on. <unk>vocalsound<unk> Industrial Designer: Hmm. Project Manager: <unk>vocalsound<unk> <unk>vocalsound<unk> Okay, have you got a presentation to make? Industrial Designer: Okay. Marketing: No, not mine yet. Project Manager: No. Okay Industrial Designer: Oh. Project Manager: so it's just your your show. Industrial Designer: Um maybe we should bring <unk>gap<unk> so that the camera can see <unk>gap<unk>. Yeah. Project Manager: <unk>vocalsound<unk> User Interface: Okay Question: Summarize the discussion about the evaluation about the new remote controls. Answer:

Most time of the discussion of this meeting was devoted into the evaluation of the new remote controls. According to the whole team, this project was excellent because it was creative and with great leadership and teamwork. Also, the technical stuff was brilliant. Lots of new ideas were found, such as glow-in-dark, new shapes, etc. Generally, they all gave a thumb up to the new remote controls. The overall evaluation is around two.

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Text: User Interface: Okay. Industrial Designer: Okay, almost there. Project Manager: Okay. We'll sta I'll use the PowerPoint, I guess. How was that, was that fun? User Interface: Mm. Very fun. Industrial Designer: Yeah, yeah. Project Manager: <unk>vocalsound<unk> Okay. Uh oh I've forgotten to mail you the minutes, but I will do. Industrial Designer: Okay. Marketing: Hmm. Project Manager: <unk>vocalsound<unk> Upsidaisy. <unk>vocalsound<unk> Um <unk>vocalsound<unk> <unk>vocalsound<unk> Um we <unk>disfmarker<unk> Marketing: E excuse me I forgot my Project Manager: Yeah. Marketing: copy. <unk>gap<unk> Project Manager: Alright, okay, yeah. Industrial Designer: <unk>vocalsound<unk> Project Manager: He's gonna get his pen. User Interface: Oh right. Okay. Project Manager: Um <unk>vocalsound<unk> Will you guys first with your prototype um before we get to the good news? Industrial Designer: Yeah, there's good news? Project Manager: Uh <unk>vocalsound<unk> <unk>vocalsound<unk> Industrial Designer: Oh. User Interface: Mm. Project Manager: we have budget problems. Industrial Designer: Oh. Cutbacks. Project Manager: I'm afraid you're all sacked. Oops. Industrial Designer: <unk>vocalsound<unk> Project Manager: I don't even have this on. <unk>vocalsound<unk> Industrial Designer: Hmm. Project Manager: <unk>vocalsound<unk> <unk>vocalsound<unk> Okay, have you got a presentation to make? Industrial Designer: Okay. Marketing: No, not mine yet. Project Manager: No. Okay Industrial Designer: Oh. Project Manager: so it's just your your show. Industrial Designer: Um maybe we should bring <unk>gap<unk> so that the camera can see <unk>gap<unk>. Yeah. Project Manager: <unk>vocalsound<unk> User Interface: Okay. Sure. Question: What's the final evaluation of the project? Answer:

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

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Text: User Interface: Okay. Industrial Designer: Okay, almost there. Project Manager: Okay. We'll sta I'll use the PowerPoint, I guess. How was that, was that fun? User Interface: Mm. Very fun. Industrial Designer: Yeah, yeah. Project Manager: <unk>vocalsound<unk> Okay. Uh oh I've forgotten to mail you the minutes, but I will do. Industrial Designer: Okay. Marketing: Hmm. Project Manager: <unk>vocalsound<unk> Upsidaisy. <unk>vocalsound<unk> Um <unk>vocalsound<unk> <unk>vocalsound<unk> Um we <unk>disfmarker<unk> Marketing: E excuse me I forgot my Project Manager: Yeah. Marketing: copy. <unk>gap<unk> Project Manager: Alright, okay, yeah. Industrial Designer: <unk>vocalsound<unk> Project Manager: He's gonna get his pen. User Interface: Oh right. Okay. Project Manager: Um <unk>vocalsound<unk> Will you guys first with your prototype um before we get to the good news? Industrial Designer: Yeah, there's good news? Project Manager: Uh <unk>vocalsound<unk> <unk>vocalsound<unk> Industrial Designer: Oh. User Interface: Mm. Project Manager: we have budget problems. Industrial Designer: Oh. Cutbacks. Project Manager: I'm afraid you're all sacked. Oops. Industrial Designer: <unk>vocalsound<unk> Project Manager: I don't even have this on. <unk>vocalsound<unk> Industrial Designer: Hmm. Project Manager: <unk>vocalsound<unk> <unk>vocalsound<unk> Okay, have you got a presentation to make? Industrial Designer: Okay. Marketing: No, not mine yet. Project Manager: No. Okay Industrial Designer: Oh. Project Manager: so it's just your your show. Industrial Designer: Um maybe we should bring <unk>gap<unk> so that the camera can see <unk>gap<unk>. Yeah. Project Manager: <unk>vocalsound<unk> User Interface: Question: Why did the team have different opinions when evaluating the design of three fruits? Answer:

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.

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Text: User Interface: Okay. Industrial Designer: Okay, almost there. Project Manager: Okay. We'll sta I'll use the PowerPoint, I guess. How was that, was that fun? User Interface: Mm. Very fun. Industrial Designer: Yeah, yeah. Project Manager: <unk>vocalsound<unk> Okay. Uh oh I've forgotten to mail you the minutes, but I will do. Industrial Designer: Okay. Marketing: Hmm. Project Manager: <unk>vocalsound<unk> Upsidaisy. <unk>vocalsound<unk> Um <unk>vocalsound<unk> <unk>vocalsound<unk> Um we <unk>disfmarker<unk> Marketing: E excuse me I forgot my Project Manager: Yeah. Marketing: copy. <unk>gap<unk> Project Manager: Alright, okay, yeah. Industrial Designer: <unk>vocalsound<unk> Project Manager: He's gonna get his pen. User Interface: Oh right. Okay. Project Manager: Um <unk>vocalsound<unk> Will you guys first with your prototype um before we get to the good news? Industrial Designer: Yeah, there's good news? Project Manager: Uh <unk>vocalsound<unk> <unk>vocalsound<unk> Industrial Designer: Oh. User Interface: Mm. Project Manager: we have budget problems. Industrial Designer: Oh. Cutbacks. Project Manager: I'm afraid you're all sacked. Oops. Industrial Designer: <unk>vocalsound<unk> Project Manager: I don't even have this on. <unk>vocalsound<unk> Industrial Designer: Hmm. Project Manager: <unk>vocalsound<unk> <unk>vocalsound<unk> Okay, have you got a presentation to make? Industrial Designer: Okay. Marketing: No, not mine yet. Project Manager: No. Okay Industrial Designer: Oh. Project Manager: so it's just your your show. Industrial Designer: Um maybe we should bring <unk>gap<unk> so that the camera can see <unk>gap<unk>. Yeah. Project Manager: <unk>vocalsound<unk> User Interface: Okay. Sure. Industrial Designer: Question: Summarize the whole meeting. Answer:

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

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Text: Project Manager: So we are here to talk about functional design. Now hopefully we've all got a better idea from <unk>vocalsound<unk> <unk>disfmarker<unk> than we did f leaving the last meeting as to what it is we are up to now. So here's an agenda. Uh I'll open. Um you should know that I'll be taking minutes during all the meetings, as I was struggling to our last time uh and that'll be easier for me now because I'm not actually giving the whole presentation. Uh the additional points are just the stuff that we sent and that I forwarded on from upper management having a few bright ideas to make our lives painful. Industrial Designer: <unk>vocalsound<unk> <unk>vocalsound<unk> Project Manager: Um <unk>vocalsound<unk> now <unk>vocalsound<unk> you can all give your presentations. We can talk about the requirements and hopefully come to some decisions. <unk>vocalsound<unk> Right, forty minutes for this meeting, so a bit more time than the last one. Here's the additional points I just wanted to put those in there to see if you guys had any comments on them. Uh did you all receive that email? User Interface: Yep. Marketing: Yeah. Project Manager: So does anyone have any overall <unk>gap<unk> Marketing: Well <unk>vocalsound<unk> uh what comes up for me is that if we're gonna if we're gonna be marketing a product that is going to be uh having <unk>vocalsound<unk> no teletext, people are very comfortable <unk>vocalsound<unk> with <unk>vocalsound<unk> the idea of having teletext and using teletext, and so we're not <unk>disfmarker<unk> we're gonna be a new product without something that people are very comfortable having right now. Project Manager: Mm. Mm. Yep. Marketing: So that's, from a marketing perspective I I see I see a lack. Project Manager: Mm. Marketing: And so we have to go, I think, in the Question: Summarize the discussion about basic components and the cost. Answer:

The basic components included power source, user interface, a programmable digital signal processor, on-off switch, encryption codes for the different modes of TVs, and memory system. Then User Interface presented the basic layout of how the remote would work. In terms of the cost, the most costly component was the chip and the casing would be expensive as well. LED, the transistors and everything else were pretty cheap. The price of the chip depended on what functionality the product would have and how much the battery capacity and storage would be. For the moment, they didn't have a ballpark figure.

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Text: Project Manager: So we are here to talk about functional design. Now hopefully we've all got a better idea from <unk>vocalsound<unk> <unk>disfmarker<unk> than we did f leaving the last meeting as to what it is we are up to now. So here's an agenda. Uh I'll open. Um you should know that I'll be taking minutes during all the meetings, as I was struggling to our last time uh and that'll be easier for me now because I'm not actually giving the whole presentation. Uh the additional points are just the stuff that we sent and that I forwarded on from upper management having a few bright ideas to make our lives painful. Industrial Designer: <unk>vocalsound<unk> <unk>vocalsound<unk> Project Manager: Um <unk>vocalsound<unk> now <unk>vocalsound<unk> you can all give your presentations. We can talk about the requirements and hopefully come to some decisions. <unk>vocalsound<unk> Right, forty minutes for this meeting, so a bit more time than the last one. Here's the additional points I just wanted to put those in there to see if you guys had any comments on them. Uh did you all receive that email? User Interface: Yep. Marketing: Yeah. Project Manager: So does anyone have any overall <unk>gap<unk> Marketing: Well <unk>vocalsound<unk> uh what comes up for me is that if we're gonna if we're gonna be marketing a product that is going to be uh having <unk>vocalsound<unk> no teletext, people are very comfortable <unk>vocalsound<unk> with <unk>vocalsound<unk> the idea of having teletext and using teletext, and so we're not <unk>disfmarker<unk> we're gonna be a new product without something that people are very comfortable having right now. Project Manager: Mm. Mm. Yep. Marketing: So that's, from a marketing perspective I I see I see a lack. Project Manager: Mm. Marketing: And so we have to go, I think, in Question: Summarize the discussion about functional design and user interface design. Answer:

The group agreed that the product should be good-looking and branded with their company logo. Industrial Designer thought they should keep the functions simple and basic and aimed at the exterior design. As for the teletext, Project Manager had intended to remove it from their new product, but considering the popularity of teletext, they decided to keep it since it wouldn't affect the price anyway. Besides, the product was demanded to be only for TV, but Marketing thought they should design an all-in-one ultimate remote control which would be easier to sell.

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Text: Project Manager: So we are here to talk about functional design. Now hopefully we've all got a better idea from <unk>vocalsound<unk> <unk>disfmarker<unk> than we did f leaving the last meeting as to what it is we are up to now. So here's an agenda. Uh I'll open. Um you should know that I'll be taking minutes during all the meetings, as I was struggling to our last time uh and that'll be easier for me now because I'm not actually giving the whole presentation. Uh the additional points are just the stuff that we sent and that I forwarded on from upper management having a few bright ideas to make our lives painful. Industrial Designer: <unk>vocalsound<unk> <unk>vocalsound<unk> Project Manager: Um <unk>vocalsound<unk> now <unk>vocalsound<unk> you can all give your presentations. We can talk about the requirements and hopefully come to some decisions. <unk>vocalsound<unk> Right, forty minutes for this meeting, so a bit more time than the last one. Here's the additional points I just wanted to put those in there to see if you guys had any comments on them. Uh did you all receive that email? User Interface: Yep. Marketing: Yeah. Project Manager: So does anyone have any overall <unk>gap<unk> Marketing: Well <unk>vocalsound<unk> uh what comes up for me is that if we're gonna if we're gonna be marketing a product that is going to be uh having <unk>vocalsound<unk> no teletext, people are very comfortable <unk>vocalsound<unk> with <unk>vocalsound<unk> the idea of having teletext and using teletext, and so we're not <unk>disfmarker<unk> we're gonna be a new product without something that people are very comfortable having right now. Project Manager: Mm. Mm. Yep. Marketing: So that's, from a marketing perspective I I see I see a lack. Project Manager: Mm. Marketing: And so we have to go, I Question: What did Marketing think of the proposal of eliminating teletext technology from their product? Answer:

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

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Text: Project Manager: So we are here to talk about functional design. Now hopefully we've all got a better idea from <unk>vocalsound<unk> <unk>disfmarker<unk> than we did f leaving the last meeting as to what it is we are up to now. So here's an agenda. Uh I'll open. Um you should know that I'll be taking minutes during all the meetings, as I was struggling to our last time uh and that'll be easier for me now because I'm not actually giving the whole presentation. Uh the additional points are just the stuff that we sent and that I forwarded on from upper management having a few bright ideas to make our lives painful. Industrial Designer: <unk>vocalsound<unk> <unk>vocalsound<unk> Project Manager: Um <unk>vocalsound<unk> now <unk>vocalsound<unk> you can all give your presentations. We can talk about the requirements and hopefully come to some decisions. <unk>vocalsound<unk> Right, forty minutes for this meeting, so a bit more time than the last one. Here's the additional points I just wanted to put those in there to see if you guys had any comments on them. Uh did you all receive that email? User Interface: Yep. Marketing: Yeah. Project Manager: So does anyone have any overall <unk>gap<unk> Marketing: Well <unk>vocalsound<unk> uh what comes up for me is that if we're gonna if we're gonna be marketing a product that is going to be uh having <unk>vocalsound<unk> no teletext, people are very comfortable <unk>vocalsound<unk> with <unk>vocalsound<unk> the idea of having teletext and using teletext, and so we're not <unk>disfmarker<unk> we're gonna be a new product without something that people are very comfortable having right now. Project Manager: Mm. Mm. Yep. Marketing: So that's, from a marketing perspective I I see I see a lack. Project Manager: Mm. Marketing: And so we have to go, I think Question: What did User Interface recommend to do when discussing the functional design and why? Answer:

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

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Text: Project Manager: So we are here to talk about functional design. Now hopefully we've all got a better idea from <unk>vocalsound<unk> <unk>disfmarker<unk> than we did f leaving the last meeting as to what it is we are up to now. So here's an agenda. Uh I'll open. Um you should know that I'll be taking minutes during all the meetings, as I was struggling to our last time uh and that'll be easier for me now because I'm not actually giving the whole presentation. Uh the additional points are just the stuff that we sent and that I forwarded on from upper management having a few bright ideas to make our lives painful. Industrial Designer: <unk>vocalsound<unk> <unk>vocalsound<unk> Project Manager: Um <unk>vocalsound<unk> now <unk>vocalsound<unk> you can all give your presentations. We can talk about the requirements and hopefully come to some decisions. <unk>vocalsound<unk> Right, forty minutes for this meeting, so a bit more time than the last one. Here's the additional points I just wanted to put those in there to see if you guys had any comments on them. Uh did you all receive that email? User Interface: Yep. Marketing: Yeah. Project Manager: So does anyone have any overall <unk>gap<unk> Marketing: Well <unk>vocalsound<unk> uh what comes up for me is that if we're gonna if we're gonna be marketing a product that is going to be uh having <unk>vocalsound<unk> no teletext, people are very comfortable <unk>vocalsound<unk> with <unk>vocalsound<unk> the idea of having teletext and using teletext, and so we're not <unk>disfmarker<unk> we're gonna be a new product without something that people are very comfortable having right now. Project Manager: Mm. Mm. Yep. Marketing: So that's, from a marketing perspective I I see I see a lack. Project Manager: Mm. Marketing: And so we have to go, I think, in the Question: Summarize the discussion about marketing positioning of the product. Answer:

The group decided to make the new product good-looking, durable and environmentally sensitive, but the opinion of User Interface had a little difference with Marketing's - the former thought the product should only have some basic functions but the latter thought there should be something special about the product to make it exclusive.

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Text: Project Manager: So we are here to talk about functional design. Now hopefully we've all got a better idea from <unk>vocalsound<unk> <unk>disfmarker<unk> than we did f leaving the last meeting as to what it is we are up to now. So here's an agenda. Uh I'll open. Um you should know that I'll be taking minutes during all the meetings, as I was struggling to our last time uh and that'll be easier for me now because I'm not actually giving the whole presentation. Uh the additional points are just the stuff that we sent and that I forwarded on from upper management having a few bright ideas to make our lives painful. Industrial Designer: <unk>vocalsound<unk> <unk>vocalsound<unk> Project Manager: Um <unk>vocalsound<unk> now <unk>vocalsound<unk> you can all give your presentations. We can talk about the requirements and hopefully come to some decisions. <unk>vocalsound<unk> Right, forty minutes for this meeting, so a bit more time than the last one. Here's the additional points I just wanted to put those in there to see if you guys had any comments on them. Uh did you all receive that email? User Interface: Yep. Marketing: Yeah. Project Manager: So does anyone have any overall <unk>gap<unk> Marketing: Well <unk>vocalsound<unk> uh what comes up for me is that if we're gonna if we're gonna be marketing a product that is going to be uh having <unk>vocalsound<unk> no teletext, people are very comfortable <unk>vocalsound<unk> with <unk>vocalsound<unk> the idea of having teletext and using teletext, and so we're not <unk>disfmarker<unk> we're gonna be a new product without something that people are very comfortable having right now. Project Manager: Mm. Mm. Yep. Marketing: So that's, from a marketing perspective I I see I see a lack. Project Manager: Mm. Marketing: And so we have to go, I think Question: Summarize the opinion of User Interface about Marketing positioning of the product. Answer:

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

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Text: Project Manager: So we are here to talk about functional design. Now hopefully we've all got a better idea from <unk>vocalsound<unk> <unk>disfmarker<unk> than we did f leaving the last meeting as to what it is we are up to now. So here's an agenda. Uh I'll open. Um you should know that I'll be taking minutes during all the meetings, as I was struggling to our last time uh and that'll be easier for me now because I'm not actually giving the whole presentation. Uh the additional points are just the stuff that we sent and that I forwarded on from upper management having a few bright ideas to make our lives painful. Industrial Designer: <unk>vocalsound<unk> <unk>vocalsound<unk> Project Manager: Um <unk>vocalsound<unk> now <unk>vocalsound<unk> you can all give your presentations. We can talk about the requirements and hopefully come to some decisions. <unk>vocalsound<unk> Right, forty minutes for this meeting, so a bit more time than the last one. Here's the additional points I just wanted to put those in there to see if you guys had any comments on them. Uh did you all receive that email? User Interface: Yep. Marketing: Yeah. Project Manager: So does anyone have any overall <unk>gap<unk> Marketing: Well <unk>vocalsound<unk> uh what comes up for me is that if we're gonna if we're gonna be marketing a product that is going to be uh having <unk>vocalsound<unk> no teletext, people are very comfortable <unk>vocalsound<unk> with <unk>vocalsound<unk> the idea of having teletext and using teletext, and so we're not <unk>disfmarker<unk> we're gonna be a new product without something that people are very comfortable having right now. Project Manager: Mm. Mm. Yep. Marketing: So that's, from a marketing perspective I I see I see a lack. Project Manager: Mm. Marketing: And so we have to go, I think, in Question: What was Marketing's opinion on Marketing positioning of the product? Answer:

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

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Text: Project Manager: So we are here to talk about functional design. Now hopefully we've all got a better idea from <unk>vocalsound<unk> <unk>disfmarker<unk> than we did f leaving the last meeting as to what it is we are up to now. So here's an agenda. Uh I'll open. Um you should know that I'll be taking minutes during all the meetings, as I was struggling to our last time uh and that'll be easier for me now because I'm not actually giving the whole presentation. Uh the additional points are just the stuff that we sent and that I forwarded on from upper management having a few bright ideas to make our lives painful. Industrial Designer: <unk>vocalsound<unk> <unk>vocalsound<unk> Project Manager: Um <unk>vocalsound<unk> now <unk>vocalsound<unk> you can all give your presentations. We can talk about the requirements and hopefully come to some decisions. <unk>vocalsound<unk> Right, forty minutes for this meeting, so a bit more time than the last one. Here's the additional points I just wanted to put those in there to see if you guys had any comments on them. Uh did you all receive that email? User Interface: Yep. Marketing: Yeah. Project Manager: So does anyone have any overall <unk>gap<unk> Marketing: Well <unk>vocalsound<unk> uh what comes up for me is that if we're gonna if we're gonna be marketing a product that is going to be uh having <unk>vocalsound<unk> no teletext, people are very comfortable <unk>vocalsound<unk> with <unk>vocalsound<unk> the idea of having teletext and using teletext, and so we're not <unk>disfmarker<unk> we're gonna be a new product without something that people are very comfortable having right now. Project Manager: Mm. Mm. Yep. Marketing: So that's, from a marketing perspective I I see I see a lack. Project Manager: Mm. Marketing: And so we have to go, I think, in the other direction. What Question: Summarize the whole meeting. Answer:

The group had a heated discussion over the functional design and the market positioning of their new product. First, User Interface introduced the basic components of the remote control and the cost of them. When discussing the user interface design, the group agreed that the product should be good-looking and branded with their company logo. Industrial Designer thought they should keep the functions simple and basic and aimed at the exterior design. Then, the group talked much about the teletext and whether the controller should be only for TV. When it came to the market positioning, the opinion of User Interface differed from Marketing's - the former tended to keep it simple but the latter thought there should be something special about the product to make it exclusive.

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Text: Grad A: OK. We seem to be recording. Professor G: Alright! Grad A: So, sorry about not <unk>disfmarker<unk> Professor G: We're not crashing. PhD D: Number four. Grad A: not pre - doing everything. The lunch went a little later than I was expecting, Chuck. PhD E: Hmm? Professor G: OK. PhD B: Chuck was telling too many jokes, or something? Grad A: Yep. Pretty much. PhD E: Yeah. Professor G: OK. <unk>vocalsound<unk> Does anybody have an agenda? Grad A: No. Postdoc F: Well, I'm <unk>disfmarker<unk> I sent a couple of items. They're <unk>disfmarker<unk> they're sort of practical. Professor G: I thought <unk>pause<unk> somebody had. Postdoc F: I don't know if you're <unk>disfmarker<unk> Professor G: Yeah, that's right. Postdoc F: if <unk>disfmarker<unk> if that's too practical for what we're <unk>pause<unk> focused on. Grad A: I mean, we don't want anything too practical. Professor G: Yeah, we only want th useless things. Grad A: Yeah, that would be <unk>disfmarker<unk> Professor G: Yeah. No, why don't we talk about practical things? Postdoc F: OK. Professor G: Sure. Postdoc F: Well, um, I can <unk>pause<unk> give you an update on the <unk>pause<unk> transcription effort. Professor G: Great. Postdoc F: Uh, maybe <unk>nonvocalsound<unk> raise the issue of microphone, uh, um procedures with reference to the <unk>pause<unk> cleanliness of the recordings. Professor G: OK, transcription, uh, microphone issues <unk>disfmarker<unk> Postdoc F: And then maybe <unk>nonvoc Question: What did Speaker C say about detecting speech/non-speech options? Answer:

Speaker C’s efforts to detect speech/non-speech portions in the mixed signal (using an HMM-based detector with Gaussian mixtures) have produced pre-segmentations that facilitate the transcription effort.

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Speaker mn014 trained the system to identify speech from loud versus quiet speakers. Such pre-segmentation modifications allow the experimenter to specify the minimum length of speech and silence portions desired, and also facilitate the identification of pauses and utterance boundaries.

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

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The transcriber pool is making quick progress, and may be used in the future to perform other types of coding, e.g. a more detailed analysis of speaker overlap. Transcribers are coding non-speech gestures, such as audible breaths and laughter, both of which are useful for improving recognition results.

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Text: Grad A: OK. We seem to be recording. Professor G: Alright! Grad A: So, sorry about not <unk>disfmarker<unk> Professor G: We're not crashing. PhD D: Number four. Grad A: not pre - doing everything. The lunch went a little later than I was expecting, Chuck. PhD E: Hmm? Professor G: OK. PhD B: Chuck was telling too many jokes, or something? Grad A: Yep. Pretty much. PhD E: Yeah. Professor G: OK. <unk>vocalsound<unk> Does anybody have an agenda? Grad A: No. Postdoc F: Well, I'm <unk>disfmarker<unk> I sent a couple of items. They're <unk>disfmarker<unk> they're sort of practical. Professor G: I thought <unk>pause<unk> somebody had. Postdoc F: I don't know if you're <unk>disfmarker<unk> Professor G: Yeah, that's right. Postdoc F: if <unk>disfmarker<unk> if that's too practical for what we're <unk>pause<unk> focused on. Grad A: I mean, we don't want anything too practical. Professor G: Yeah, we only want th useless things. Grad A: Yeah, that would be <unk>disfmarker<unk> Professor G: Yeah. No, why don't we talk about practical things? Postdoc F: OK. Professor G: Sure. Postdoc F: Well, um, I can <unk>pause<unk> give you an update on the <unk>pause<unk> transcription effort. Professor G: Great. Postdoc F: Uh, maybe <unk>nonvocalsound<unk> raise the issue of microphone, uh, um procedures with reference to the <unk>pause<unk> cleanliness of the recordings. Professor G: OK, transcription, uh, microphone issues <unk>disfmarker<unk> Postdoc F: And then maybe <unk>nonvocalsound<unk> ask, Question: What did Speaker F state about the transcriber tool? Answer:

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

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Text: Grad A: OK. We seem to be recording. Professor G: Alright! Grad A: So, sorry about not <unk>disfmarker<unk> Professor G: We're not crashing. PhD D: Number four. Grad A: not pre - doing everything. The lunch went a little later than I was expecting, Chuck. PhD E: Hmm? Professor G: OK. PhD B: Chuck was telling too many jokes, or something? Grad A: Yep. Pretty much. PhD E: Yeah. Professor G: OK. <unk>vocalsound<unk> Does anybody have an agenda? Grad A: No. Postdoc F: Well, I'm <unk>disfmarker<unk> I sent a couple of items. They're <unk>disfmarker<unk> they're sort of practical. Professor G: I thought <unk>pause<unk> somebody had. Postdoc F: I don't know if you're <unk>disfmarker<unk> Professor G: Yeah, that's right. Postdoc F: if <unk>disfmarker<unk> if that's too practical for what we're <unk>pause<unk> focused on. Grad A: I mean, we don't want anything too practical. Professor G: Yeah, we only want th useless things. Grad A: Yeah, that would be <unk>disfmarker<unk> Professor G: Yeah. No, why don't we talk about practical things? Postdoc F: OK. Professor G: Sure. Postdoc F: Well, um, I can <unk>pause<unk> give you an update on the <unk>pause<unk> transcription effort. Professor G: Great. Postdoc F: Uh, maybe <unk>nonvocalsound<unk> raise the issue of microphone, uh, um procedures with reference to the <unk>pause<unk> cleanliness of the recordings. Professor G: OK, transcription, uh, microphone issues <unk>disfmarker<unk> Postdoc F: And then maybe <unk>nonvocalsound<unk> ask, th Question: What did the team say on alternative transcription tools? Answer:

The Praat software package was discussed as an alternative transcription tool capable of representing multiple channels of speech. Cross-correlation was discussed as a means of enabling speaker identification, and may be integrated into future work.

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Text: Grad A: OK. We seem to be recording. Professor G: Alright! Grad A: So, sorry about not <unk>disfmarker<unk> Professor G: We're not crashing. PhD D: Number four. Grad A: not pre - doing everything. The lunch went a little later than I was expecting, Chuck. PhD E: Hmm? Professor G: OK. PhD B: Chuck was telling too many jokes, or something? Grad A: Yep. Pretty much. PhD E: Yeah. Professor G: OK. <unk>vocalsound<unk> Does anybody have an agenda? Grad A: No. Postdoc F: Well, I'm <unk>disfmarker<unk> I sent a couple of items. They're <unk>disfmarker<unk> they're sort of practical. Professor G: I thought <unk>pause<unk> somebody had. Postdoc F: I don't know if you're <unk>disfmarker<unk> Professor G: Yeah, that's right. Postdoc F: if <unk>disfmarker<unk> if that's too practical for what we're <unk>pause<unk> focused on. Grad A: I mean, we don't want anything too practical. Professor G: Yeah, we only want th useless things. Grad A: Yeah, that would be <unk>disfmarker<unk> Professor G: Yeah. No, why don't we talk about practical things? Postdoc F: OK. Professor G: Sure. Postdoc F: Well, um, I can <unk>pause<unk> give you an update on the <unk>pause<unk> transcription effort. Professor G: Great. Postdoc F: Uh, maybe <unk>nonvocalsound<unk> raise the issue of microphone, uh, um procedures with reference to the <unk>pause<unk> cleanliness of the recordings. Professor G: OK, transcription, uh, microphone issues <unk>disfmarker<unk> Postdoc F: And then maybe <unk>nonvocalsound<unk> ask, th uh Question: What was discussed in the meeting? Answer:

The group talked about the ongoing transcription effort and issues related to the Transcriber tool, which despite its limitations for capturing tight time markings for overlapping speech, will continue to remain in use. Speaker mn014 explained his efforts to pre-segment the signal into speech and non-speech portions for facilitating transcriptions. Recording equipment and procedures were discussed, with a focus on audible breathing and the need for standards in microphone wear and use.

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Text: Project Manager: Is everyone ready to start? Industrial Designer: Yeah. <unk>vocalsound<unk> User Interface: Yeah. Marketing: <unk>vocalsound<unk> Yes. Project Manager: Okay. Great. Well, welcome to the third meeting of conceptual design. I'll just get the PowerPoint presentation up and running. Okay. Um, on the agenda for this, um, for this particular meeting, we'll have your three presentations on what you've done since our last meeting, after we came up with um some general ideas of our design. And, um, then we have to make some key decisions on, on our remote control concept, and how we're gonna make it, what uh materials we're gonna use, and that sort of thing. Industrial Designer: <unk>vocalsound<unk> Project Manager: The meeting will be forty minutes long. Industrial Designer: Okay. Project Manager: And um we will once again have Poppy as our first presenter. Industrial Designer: <unk>vocalsound<unk> Okay. Project Manager: Alright, and I will switch up PowerPoint. Industrial Designer: Thank you. Project Manager: Okay. Industrial Designer: Should be just loading. <unk>vocalsound<unk> Okay. Oh, although I can't see it on my screen. That says go here. Okay. I've been doing some research into the different components that we could use, um what's available to us f to actually make the remote control. Um, first of all we have to look at how the remote control is actually made, and what is it happens inside the casing, which is more your field. Um, thes main internal feature is a circuit board, which contains all the elec electronics and also the contacts with the power source. Marketing: <unk>vocalsound<unk> Industrial Designer: Which is not necessarily a battery, as we're about to see. Um, there are several components of, um, the circuit board that we need to consider, where we'll be getting them from, what they'll be made of. Um, including Question: Summarize the discussion about the options for energy sources. Answer:

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

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Text: Project Manager: Is everyone ready to start? Industrial Designer: Yeah. <unk>vocalsound<unk> User Interface: Yeah. Marketing: <unk>vocalsound<unk> Yes. Project Manager: Okay. Great. Well, welcome to the third meeting of conceptual design. I'll just get the PowerPoint presentation up and running. Okay. Um, on the agenda for this, um, for this particular meeting, we'll have your three presentations on what you've done since our last meeting, after we came up with um some general ideas of our design. And, um, then we have to make some key decisions on, on our remote control concept, and how we're gonna make it, what uh materials we're gonna use, and that sort of thing. Industrial Designer: <unk>vocalsound<unk> Project Manager: The meeting will be forty minutes long. Industrial Designer: Okay. Project Manager: And um we will once again have Poppy as our first presenter. Industrial Designer: <unk>vocalsound<unk> Okay. Project Manager: Alright, and I will switch up PowerPoint. Industrial Designer: Thank you. Project Manager: Okay. Industrial Designer: Should be just loading. <unk>vocalsound<unk> Okay. Oh, although I can't see it on my screen. That says go here. Okay. I've been doing some research into the different components that we could use, um what's available to us f to actually make the remote control. Um, first of all we have to look at how the remote control is actually made, and what is it happens inside the casing, which is more your field. Um, thes main internal feature is a circuit board, which contains all the elec electronics and also the contacts with the power source. Marketing: <unk>vocalsound<unk> Industrial Designer: Which is not necessarily a battery, as we're about to see. Um, there are several components of, um, the circuit board that we need to consider, where we'll be getting them from, what they'll be made Question: Why did Industrial Designer think rubber casing was the best when talking about the options for materials? Answer:

Industrial Designer indicated rubber was softer than metal, cheaper than titanium that would exceed the budget, and more flexible to color alternatives. Although rubber couldn't work as the interior to protect innards, rubber coating would reduce the impact if the remote control was dropped.

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Text: Project Manager: Is everyone ready to start? Industrial Designer: Yeah. <unk>vocalsound<unk> User Interface: Yeah. Marketing: <unk>vocalsound<unk> Yes. Project Manager: Okay. Great. Well, welcome to the third meeting of conceptual design. I'll just get the PowerPoint presentation up and running. Okay. Um, on the agenda for this, um, for this particular meeting, we'll have your three presentations on what you've done since our last meeting, after we came up with um some general ideas of our design. And, um, then we have to make some key decisions on, on our remote control concept, and how we're gonna make it, what uh materials we're gonna use, and that sort of thing. Industrial Designer: <unk>vocalsound<unk> Project Manager: The meeting will be forty minutes long. Industrial Designer: Okay. Project Manager: And um we will once again have Poppy as our first presenter. Industrial Designer: <unk>vocalsound<unk> Okay. Project Manager: Alright, and I will switch up PowerPoint. Industrial Designer: Thank you. Project Manager: Okay. Industrial Designer: Should be just loading. <unk>vocalsound<unk> Okay. Oh, although I can't see it on my screen. That says go here. Okay. I've been doing some research into the different components that we could use, um what's available to us f to actually make the remote control. Um, first of all we have to look at how the remote control is actually made, and what is it happens inside the casing, which is more your field. Um, thes main internal feature is a circuit board, which contains all the elec electronics and also the contacts with the power source. Marketing: <unk>vocalsound<unk> Industrial Designer: Which is not necessarily a battery, as we're about to see. Um, there are several components of, um, the circuit board that we need to consider, where we'll be getting them from, what they'll be made of. Question: What did User Interface think about the command interface when talking about user interface types? Answer:

User Interface regarded the command interface as useful for remote control. It was less complicated and more user-friendly. In comparison, the interface consisting of many buttons, colors, and functions wouldn't improve the use of the product and was challenging to understand. As for expense, the command interface was also cheaper. Therefore, more budget could be targeted to the design area.

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Text: Project Manager: Is everyone ready to start? Industrial Designer: Yeah. <unk>vocalsound<unk> User Interface: Yeah. Marketing: <unk>vocalsound<unk> Yes. Project Manager: Okay. Great. Well, welcome to the third meeting of conceptual design. I'll just get the PowerPoint presentation up and running. Okay. Um, on the agenda for this, um, for this particular meeting, we'll have your three presentations on what you've done since our last meeting, after we came up with um some general ideas of our design. And, um, then we have to make some key decisions on, on our remote control concept, and how we're gonna make it, what uh materials we're gonna use, and that sort of thing. Industrial Designer: <unk>vocalsound<unk> Project Manager: The meeting will be forty minutes long. Industrial Designer: Okay. Project Manager: And um we will once again have Poppy as our first presenter. Industrial Designer: <unk>vocalsound<unk> Okay. Project Manager: Alright, and I will switch up PowerPoint. Industrial Designer: Thank you. Project Manager: Okay. Industrial Designer: Should be just loading. <unk>vocalsound<unk> Okay. Oh, although I can't see it on my screen. That says go here. Okay. I've been doing some research into the different components that we could use, um what's available to us f to actually make the remote control. Um, first of all we have to look at how the remote control is actually made, and what is it happens inside the casing, which is more your field. Um, thes main internal feature is a circuit board, which contains all the elec electronics and also the contacts with the power source. Marketing: <unk>vocalsound<unk> Industrial Designer: Which is not necessarily a battery, as we're about to see. Um, there are several components of, um, the circuit board that we need to consider, where we'll be getting them from, what they'll be made of. Um Question: Summarize the discussion about the trend-watching for remote control. Answer:

In the presentation, Marketing listed the three most important aspects of remote control. The priority was to have a fancy look-and-feel instead of the traditional one. Secondly, the remote control should be technologically innovative. Moreover, it should be easy to use. Marketing also mentioned that fruit and vegetables would be the popular theme this year. In this way, the group turned to discuss some ideas about combining this theme with their design, like applying an abstract design and putting photos on the product.

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Text: Project Manager: Is everyone ready to start? Industrial Designer: Yeah. <unk>vocalsound<unk> User Interface: Yeah. Marketing: <unk>vocalsound<unk> Yes. Project Manager: Okay. Great. Well, welcome to the third meeting of conceptual design. I'll just get the PowerPoint presentation up and running. Okay. Um, on the agenda for this, um, for this particular meeting, we'll have your three presentations on what you've done since our last meeting, after we came up with um some general ideas of our design. And, um, then we have to make some key decisions on, on our remote control concept, and how we're gonna make it, what uh materials we're gonna use, and that sort of thing. Industrial Designer: <unk>vocalsound<unk> Project Manager: The meeting will be forty minutes long. Industrial Designer: Okay. Project Manager: And um we will once again have Poppy as our first presenter. Industrial Designer: <unk>vocalsound<unk> Okay. Project Manager: Alright, and I will switch up PowerPoint. Industrial Designer: Thank you. Project Manager: Okay. Industrial Designer: Should be just loading. <unk>vocalsound<unk> Okay. Oh, although I can't see it on my screen. That says go here. Okay. I've been doing some research into the different components that we could use, um what's available to us f to actually make the remote control. Um, first of all we have to look at how the remote control is actually made, and what is it happens inside the casing, which is more your field. Um, thes main internal feature is a circuit board, which contains all the elec electronics and also the contacts with the power source. Marketing: <unk>vocalsound<unk> Industrial Designer: Which is not necessarily a battery, as we're about to see. Um, there are several components of, um, the circuit board that we need to consider, where we'll be getting them from, what they'll be made of Question: What did Industrial Designer think about vegetable and fruit themes when talking about trend-watching? Answer:

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.

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Text: Project Manager: Is everyone ready to start? Industrial Designer: Yeah. <unk>vocalsound<unk> User Interface: Yeah. Marketing: <unk>vocalsound<unk> Yes. Project Manager: Okay. Great. Well, welcome to the third meeting of conceptual design. I'll just get the PowerPoint presentation up and running. Okay. Um, on the agenda for this, um, for this particular meeting, we'll have your three presentations on what you've done since our last meeting, after we came up with um some general ideas of our design. And, um, then we have to make some key decisions on, on our remote control concept, and how we're gonna make it, what uh materials we're gonna use, and that sort of thing. Industrial Designer: <unk>vocalsound<unk> Project Manager: The meeting will be forty minutes long. Industrial Designer: Okay. Project Manager: And um we will once again have Poppy as our first presenter. Industrial Designer: <unk>vocalsound<unk> Okay. Project Manager: Alright, and I will switch up PowerPoint. Industrial Designer: Thank you. Project Manager: Okay. Industrial Designer: Should be just loading. <unk>vocalsound<unk> Okay. Oh, although I can't see it on my screen. That says go here. Okay. I've been doing some research into the different components that we could use, um what's available to us f to actually make the remote control. Um, first of all we have to look at how the remote control is actually made, and what is it happens inside the casing, which is more your field. Um, thes main internal feature is a circuit board, which contains all the elec electronics and also the contacts with the power source. Marketing: <unk>vocalsound<unk> Industrial Designer: Which is not necessarily a battery, as we're about to see. Um, there are several components of, um, the circuit board that we need to consider, where we'll be getting them from, what they'll be made of. Um, including the Question: What was the decision of the discussion of the chip? Answer:

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

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Text: Project Manager: Is everyone ready to start? Industrial Designer: Yeah. <unk>vocalsound<unk> User Interface: Yeah. Marketing: <unk>vocalsound<unk> Yes. Project Manager: Okay. Great. Well, welcome to the third meeting of conceptual design. I'll just get the PowerPoint presentation up and running. Okay. Um, on the agenda for this, um, for this particular meeting, we'll have your three presentations on what you've done since our last meeting, after we came up with um some general ideas of our design. And, um, then we have to make some key decisions on, on our remote control concept, and how we're gonna make it, what uh materials we're gonna use, and that sort of thing. Industrial Designer: <unk>vocalsound<unk> Project Manager: The meeting will be forty minutes long. Industrial Designer: Okay. Project Manager: And um we will once again have Poppy as our first presenter. Industrial Designer: <unk>vocalsound<unk> Okay. Project Manager: Alright, and I will switch up PowerPoint. Industrial Designer: Thank you. Project Manager: Okay. Industrial Designer: Should be just loading. <unk>vocalsound<unk> Okay. Oh, although I can't see it on my screen. That says go here. Okay. I've been doing some research into the different components that we could use, um what's available to us f to actually make the remote control. Um, first of all we have to look at how the remote control is actually made, and what is it happens inside the casing, which is more your field. Um, thes main internal feature is a circuit board, which contains all the elec electronics and also the contacts with the power source. Marketing: <unk>vocalsound<unk> Industrial Designer: Which is not necessarily a battery, as we're about to see. Um, there are several components of, um, the circuit board that we need to consider, where we'll be getting them from, what they'll be made of. Um, including the integrated circuit, Question: Summarize the whole meeting. Answer:

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

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Text: Lynne Neagle AM: Good morning, everyone. Welcome to the Children, Young People and Education Committee this morning. We've received no apologies for absence. Can I ask if there are any declarations of interest from Members, please? No. Okay, thank you. Item 2 this morning is the Children (Abolition of Defence of Reasonable Punishment) (Wales) Bill: Stage 2 proceedings. I'm pleased to welcome Julie Morgan AM, Deputy Minister for Health and Social Services; Karen Cornish, deputy director, children and families division at Welsh Government; and Emma Gammon, lawyer for Welsh Government. Thank you for attending this morning and welcome to the committee. I'm just going to run through the procedures that we're going to follow now. As I said, the purpose of the meeting is to undertake Stage 2 proceedings on the Children (Abolition of Defence of Reasonable Punishment) (Wales) Bill. For these proceedings, Members should have copies of the marshalled list of amendments, the groupings of the amendments for debate and the voting order for the amendments. The marshalled list of amendments is the list of all amendments tabled, marshalled into the order in which the sections appear in the Bill. The order in which we consider amendments will be the default order—that is, sections 1 to 3 and the long title. You will see from the groupings list that amendments have been grouped to facilitate debate. However, the order in which they're called and moved for decision is dictated by the marshalled list. Members will, therefore, need to follow the two papers, although I will advise Members when I call them whether they're being called to speak in the debate or to move their amendments for a decision. There will be one debate on each group of amendments. Members who wish to speak in a particular group should indicate to me in the usual way. I will call the Deputy Minister to speak on each group. For the record, in accordance with the convention agreed by the Business Committee, as Chair I will move amendments in the name of the Deputy Minister. For expediency, I will assume that the Deputy Minister wishes me to move all of her amendment Question: What did the group discuss about amendments in group 1 that related to the duty to promote public awareness? Answer:

There was a debate of whether amendment 1 and 4, and 1A to 1E should be accepted or rejected. The Deputy Minister firstly expressed her opinions. She was in favor of amendments 1 and 4, but against 1A to 1E, mainly because she thought that level of details were not necessarily on the face of the Bill. However, Janet Finch-Saunders thought the Deputy Minister's amendment lacked a number of key points that the committee were actually keen to address at stage 1 and explained one by one from 1A to 1E why those amendments were important. Afterwards, there was a short debate about whether to accept those amendments from Suzy Davies, Dawn Bowden, Hefin David and Sian Gwenllian. Suzy Davies supported amendment 1A to 1E, while others all against them. At last, they took a vote and it ended up with rejecting amendment 1A to 1E and agreeing with amendment 1.

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Text: Lynne Neagle AM: Good morning, everyone. Welcome to the Children, Young People and Education Committee this morning. We've received no apologies for absence. Can I ask if there are any declarations of interest from Members, please? No. Okay, thank you. Item 2 this morning is the Children (Abolition of Defence of Reasonable Punishment) (Wales) Bill: Stage 2 proceedings. I'm pleased to welcome Julie Morgan AM, Deputy Minister for Health and Social Services; Karen Cornish, deputy director, children and families division at Welsh Government; and Emma Gammon, lawyer for Welsh Government. Thank you for attending this morning and welcome to the committee. I'm just going to run through the procedures that we're going to follow now. As I said, the purpose of the meeting is to undertake Stage 2 proceedings on the Children (Abolition of Defence of Reasonable Punishment) (Wales) Bill. For these proceedings, Members should have copies of the marshalled list of amendments, the groupings of the amendments for debate and the voting order for the amendments. The marshalled list of amendments is the list of all amendments tabled, marshalled into the order in which the sections appear in the Bill. The order in which we consider amendments will be the default order—that is, sections 1 to 3 and the long title. You will see from the groupings list that amendments have been grouped to facilitate debate. However, the order in which they're called and moved for decision is dictated by the marshalled list. Members will, therefore, need to follow the two papers, although I will advise Members when I call them whether they're being called to speak in the debate or to move their amendments for a decision. There will be one debate on each group of amendments. Members who wish to speak in a particular group should indicate to me in the usual way. I will call the Deputy Minister to speak on each group. For the record, in accordance with the convention agreed by the Business Committee, as Chair I will move amendments in the name of the Deputy Minister. For expediency, I will assume that the Deputy Minister wishes me to move all Question: How did the Deputy Minister speak to her amendments in group 1 that related to the duty to promote public awareness? Answer:

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.

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Text: Lynne Neagle AM: Good morning, everyone. Welcome to the Children, Young People and Education Committee this morning. We've received no apologies for absence. Can I ask if there are any declarations of interest from Members, please? No. Okay, thank you. Item 2 this morning is the Children (Abolition of Defence of Reasonable Punishment) (Wales) Bill: Stage 2 proceedings. I'm pleased to welcome Julie Morgan AM, Deputy Minister for Health and Social Services; Karen Cornish, deputy director, children and families division at Welsh Government; and Emma Gammon, lawyer for Welsh Government. Thank you for attending this morning and welcome to the committee. I'm just going to run through the procedures that we're going to follow now. As I said, the purpose of the meeting is to undertake Stage 2 proceedings on the Children (Abolition of Defence of Reasonable Punishment) (Wales) Bill. For these proceedings, Members should have copies of the marshalled list of amendments, the groupings of the amendments for debate and the voting order for the amendments. The marshalled list of amendments is the list of all amendments tabled, marshalled into the order in which the sections appear in the Bill. The order in which we consider amendments will be the default order—that is, sections 1 to 3 and the long title. You will see from the groupings list that amendments have been grouped to facilitate debate. However, the order in which they're called and moved for decision is dictated by the marshalled list. Members will, therefore, need to follow the two papers, although I will advise Members when I call them whether they're being called to speak in the debate or to move their amendments for a decision. There will be one debate on each group of amendments. Members who wish to speak in a particular group should indicate to me in the usual way. I will call the Deputy Minister to speak on each group. For the record, in accordance with the convention agreed by the Business Committee, as Chair I will move amendments in the name of the Deputy Minister. For expediency Question: What did Janet Finch-Saunders say for amendments 1A to 1E when discussing the amendments in group 1 that related to the duty to promote public awareness? Answer:

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

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Text: Lynne Neagle AM: Good morning, everyone. Welcome to the Children, Young People and Education Committee this morning. We've received no apologies for absence. Can I ask if there are any declarations of interest from Members, please? No. Okay, thank you. Item 2 this morning is the Children (Abolition of Defence of Reasonable Punishment) (Wales) Bill: Stage 2 proceedings. I'm pleased to welcome Julie Morgan AM, Deputy Minister for Health and Social Services; Karen Cornish, deputy director, children and families division at Welsh Government; and Emma Gammon, lawyer for Welsh Government. Thank you for attending this morning and welcome to the committee. I'm just going to run through the procedures that we're going to follow now. As I said, the purpose of the meeting is to undertake Stage 2 proceedings on the Children (Abolition of Defence of Reasonable Punishment) (Wales) Bill. For these proceedings, Members should have copies of the marshalled list of amendments, the groupings of the amendments for debate and the voting order for the amendments. The marshalled list of amendments is the list of all amendments tabled, marshalled into the order in which the sections appear in the Bill. The order in which we consider amendments will be the default order—that is, sections 1 to 3 and the long title. You will see from the groupings list that amendments have been grouped to facilitate debate. However, the order in which they're called and moved for decision is dictated by the marshalled list. Members will, therefore, need to follow the two papers, although I will advise Members when I call them whether they're being called to speak in the debate or to move their amendments for a decision. There will be one debate on each group of amendments. Members who wish to speak in a particular group should indicate to me in the usual way. I will call the Deputy Minister to speak on each group. For the record, in accordance with the convention agreed by the Business Committee, as Chair I will move amendments in the name of the Deputy Minister. For expediency, I will assume that the Deputy Minister wishes me to move all of her Question: Summarize their discussions on the amendments related to the duty to report on the effect of the legislation. Answer:

The Deputy Minister firstly expressed her opinions. She thought amendment 2C would require Welsh Ministers to prepare and lay before the Assembly a report on the effect of their promotion of public awareness before section 1 was commenced, and she thought this was unnecessary and was in conflict with what she thought was a priority for the implementation of this Bill. She also thought this amendment was not required because they were preparing to assess the effectiveness of the awareness raising. Then Janet Finch-Saunder expressed her opinion, and spoke to amendments 2C excluding 2D to 2K. After this, Suzy Davies proposed several opinions against the Deputy Minister. In specific, Suzy Davies did not think the amendment should affect the commencement date at all, to respond to the comments the Deputy Minister made for amendment 2C. At last, they took a vote and ended up with losing 2C - 2K, and accepting amendment 2.

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Text: Lynne Neagle AM: Good morning, everyone. Welcome to the Children, Young People and Education Committee this morning. We've received no apologies for absence. Can I ask if there are any declarations of interest from Members, please? No. Okay, thank you. Item 2 this morning is the Children (Abolition of Defence of Reasonable Punishment) (Wales) Bill: Stage 2 proceedings. I'm pleased to welcome Julie Morgan AM, Deputy Minister for Health and Social Services; Karen Cornish, deputy director, children and families division at Welsh Government; and Emma Gammon, lawyer for Welsh Government. Thank you for attending this morning and welcome to the committee. I'm just going to run through the procedures that we're going to follow now. As I said, the purpose of the meeting is to undertake Stage 2 proceedings on the Children (Abolition of Defence of Reasonable Punishment) (Wales) Bill. For these proceedings, Members should have copies of the marshalled list of amendments, the groupings of the amendments for debate and the voting order for the amendments. The marshalled list of amendments is the list of all amendments tabled, marshalled into the order in which the sections appear in the Bill. The order in which we consider amendments will be the default order—that is, sections 1 to 3 and the long title. You will see from the groupings list that amendments have been grouped to facilitate debate. However, the order in which they're called and moved for decision is dictated by the marshalled list. Members will, therefore, need to follow the two papers, although I will advise Members when I call them whether they're being called to speak in the debate or to move their amendments for a decision. There will be one debate on each group of amendments. Members who wish to speak in a particular group should indicate to me in the usual way. I will call the Deputy Minister to speak on each group. For the record, in accordance with the convention agreed by the Business Committee, as Chair I will move amendments in the name of the Deputy Minister. For expediency, I will assume that the Deputy Minister wishes Question: How did the Deputy Minister speak to her amendments in group 2 that relate to the duty to report on the effect of the legislation? Answer:

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.

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Text: Lynne Neagle AM: Good morning, everyone. Welcome to the Children, Young People and Education Committee this morning. We've received no apologies for absence. Can I ask if there are any declarations of interest from Members, please? No. Okay, thank you. Item 2 this morning is the Children (Abolition of Defence of Reasonable Punishment) (Wales) Bill: Stage 2 proceedings. I'm pleased to welcome Julie Morgan AM, Deputy Minister for Health and Social Services; Karen Cornish, deputy director, children and families division at Welsh Government; and Emma Gammon, lawyer for Welsh Government. Thank you for attending this morning and welcome to the committee. I'm just going to run through the procedures that we're going to follow now. As I said, the purpose of the meeting is to undertake Stage 2 proceedings on the Children (Abolition of Defence of Reasonable Punishment) (Wales) Bill. For these proceedings, Members should have copies of the marshalled list of amendments, the groupings of the amendments for debate and the voting order for the amendments. The marshalled list of amendments is the list of all amendments tabled, marshalled into the order in which the sections appear in the Bill. The order in which we consider amendments will be the default order—that is, sections 1 to 3 and the long title. You will see from the groupings list that amendments have been grouped to facilitate debate. However, the order in which they're called and moved for decision is dictated by the marshalled list. Members will, therefore, need to follow the two papers, although I will advise Members when I call them whether they're being called to speak in the debate or to move their amendments for a decision. There will be one debate on each group of amendments. Members who wish to speak in a particular group should indicate to me in the usual way. I will call the Deputy Minister to speak on each group. For the record, in accordance with the convention agreed by the Business Committee, as Chair I will move amendments in the name of the Deputy Minister. For expediency, I will Question: Summarize Janet-Finch-Saunders' opinion on amendments in group 2 that relate to the duty to report on the effect of the legislation. Answer:

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.

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Text: Lynne Neagle AM: Good morning, everyone. Welcome to the Children, Young People and Education Committee this morning. We've received no apologies for absence. Can I ask if there are any declarations of interest from Members, please? No. Okay, thank you. Item 2 this morning is the Children (Abolition of Defence of Reasonable Punishment) (Wales) Bill: Stage 2 proceedings. I'm pleased to welcome Julie Morgan AM, Deputy Minister for Health and Social Services; Karen Cornish, deputy director, children and families division at Welsh Government; and Emma Gammon, lawyer for Welsh Government. Thank you for attending this morning and welcome to the committee. I'm just going to run through the procedures that we're going to follow now. As I said, the purpose of the meeting is to undertake Stage 2 proceedings on the Children (Abolition of Defence of Reasonable Punishment) (Wales) Bill. For these proceedings, Members should have copies of the marshalled list of amendments, the groupings of the amendments for debate and the voting order for the amendments. The marshalled list of amendments is the list of all amendments tabled, marshalled into the order in which the sections appear in the Bill. The order in which we consider amendments will be the default order—that is, sections 1 to 3 and the long title. You will see from the groupings list that amendments have been grouped to facilitate debate. However, the order in which they're called and moved for decision is dictated by the marshalled list. Members will, therefore, need to follow the two papers, although I will advise Members when I call them whether they're being called to speak in the debate or to move their amendments for a decision. There will be one debate on each group of amendments. Members who wish to speak in a particular group should indicate to me in the usual way. I will call the Deputy Minister to speak on each group. For the record, in accordance with the convention agreed by the Business Committee, as Chair I will move amendments in the name of the Deputy Minister. For expediency, I will assume that the Deputy Minister wishes me to move all Question: Summarize their discussions on the amendments in group 3 that relate to the regulation-making powers in the Bill. Answer:

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