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Why did the team discuss the desired features of the new TV remote controls? Project Manager: Uh, making a profit of fifty million Euros. {vocalsound} Industrial Designer: Alright so twenty five. User Interface: Mm'kay. Project Manager: So, it's go gonna have to be be pretty damn trendy. {vocalsound} Industrial Designe...
There were two reasons. The first was that the unit price of each remote control was relatively high (twenty-five Euros). Therefore, in order to increase customers'willingness to spend so much money on one single remote control, the features must be satisfying and good enough. The second was the competition since there...
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How did the team come up with these features of the new TV remote controls? Project Manager: Uh, making a profit of fifty million Euros. {vocalsound} Industrial Designer: Alright so twenty five. User Interface: Mm'kay. Project Manager: So, it's go gonna have to be be pretty damn trendy. {vocalsound} Industrial Designer...
Basically, they summarized from their daily experience. The project manager pointed out the User Interface only bought the sort of one for all type things. Also, the User Interface and project manager both agreed that a little gimmick was able to make a difference. For example, you could whistle to retrieve lost items.
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Summarize the discussion about the importance of good looks and sizes of remote controls. Project Manager: Uh, making a profit of fifty million Euros. {vocalsound} Industrial Designer: Alright so twenty five. User Interface: Mm'kay. Project Manager: So, it's go gonna have to be be pretty damn trendy. {vocalsound} Indus...
In the discussion, the team agreed that the good look and size were two vital features of the new TV remote controls. Unfortunately, the team failed to reach a consensus in this meeting about the size, but they left it to the next meeting.
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Why did the team agree that a good look was important to the new TV remote controls? Project Manager: Uh, making a profit of fifty million Euros. {vocalsound} Industrial Designer: Alright so twenty five. User Interface: Mm'kay. Project Manager: So, it's go gonna have to be be pretty damn trendy. {vocalsound} Industrial...
According to Marketing, people were more willing to play with a good-looking remote control when they were watching movies or playing electronic devices. The rest of the team approved of this idea since people tended to have a good design in hand.
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Why did the team couldn't think of the satisfying size of the new TV remote controls? Project Manager: Uh, making a profit of fifty million Euros. {vocalsound} Industrial Designer: Alright so twenty five. User Interface: Mm'kay. Project Manager: So, it's go gonna have to be be pretty damn trendy. {vocalsound} Industria...
Industrial Designer pointed out that too many buttons would get the remote controls too big and clunky. However, a really small and slim one was very likely to be lost. The User Interface then proposed a PDA or hand-held kind of remote controls. Unfortunately, it was not friendly to the unit price.
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Summarize the whole meeting. Project Manager: Uh, making a profit of fifty million Euros. {vocalsound} Industrial Designer: Alright so twenty five. User Interface: Mm'kay. Project Manager: So, it's go gonna have to be be pretty damn trendy. {vocalsound} Industrial Designer: So yeah, I've {disfmarker} The only the only ...
The meeting was mainly about the exchange of the preliminary ideas about a new TV remote control project and subsequent task assignment. The project manager first set a target of making a fifty million Euros'profit from the project, with the unit price of twenty-five Euros. Afterwards, the team raised different opinion...
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Summarize the discussion about the propotype presentation about the buttons and main features the remote control. Industrial Designer: {vocalsound} Project Manager: Um almost, there's one more thing I have to get out of the {disfmarker} I have to make sure that this attachment will open. Industrial Designer: {vocalsoun...
User Interface first summarized the propotype of the remote control discussed before. The remote control should be curved, easy to hold, nice and small with big buttons. Those buttons were a scroll and some push buttons. The body of the remote control shall be smooth plastic or spongy rubber with yellow and black butto...
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What did User Interface think about the material of the remote control? Industrial Designer: {vocalsound} Project Manager: Um almost, there's one more thing I have to get out of the {disfmarker} I have to make sure that this attachment will open. Industrial Designer: {vocalsound} I keep forgetting whether I've done thi...
User Interface tried to envisioned the remote control in well molded and hard smooth plastic. User Interface also suggested another possibility, which was a more spongy rubber cover with spongy buttons. Which option to choose would depend on cost restraints.
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Why did Marketing and Industrial Designer appreciate the design of keys when talking about the propotype presentation about the buttons and main features of the remote control? Industrial Designer: {vocalsound} Project Manager: Um almost, there's one more thing I have to get out of the {disfmarker} I have to make sure ...
They argued that the arrangement of the keys looked like a logo, a compass point, or texting. The simple but different design could be a good feature of the remote control, and made it pop up in common remote controls.
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Summarize the discussion about an interactive evaluation in terms of the user requiremnets and the hot trends. Industrial Designer: {vocalsound} Project Manager: Um almost, there's one more thing I have to get out of the {disfmarker} I have to make sure that this attachment will open. Industrial Designer: {vocalsound} ...
The group made an interactive evaluation of the remote control in terms of the user requirements and the trends. They mainly focused on the evaluation of price, fancy, color and energy. They picked another word, elegant, other than fancy to describe to design of the new remote control. The group failed to make a choice...
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What did the group think about the deisgn when talking about the evaluation of the remote control? Industrial Designer: {vocalsound} Project Manager: Um almost, there's one more thing I have to get out of the {disfmarker} I have to make sure that this attachment will open. Industrial Designer: {vocalsound} I keep forge...
The remote control was quite fancy in the respect of appearance. The group picked the word elegant from aesthetic, trendy, elegant and stylish when User Interface suggested using a different word to describe the remote control. Still, they all agreed that fancy was more appropriate than elegant.
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Why did User Interface disagree with Industrial Designer with the price when talking about the interactive evaluation in terms of the user requiremnets and the hot trends? Industrial Designer: {vocalsound} Project Manager: Um almost, there's one more thing I have to get out of the {disfmarker} I have to make sure that ...
Industrial Designer thought the remote control would be cheap to develop because they didn't use any expensive components. But User Interface argued that it would cost a lot to find someone with good technology of programming and develop the innovative user interface.
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Summarize the whole meeting. Industrial Designer: {vocalsound} Project Manager: Um almost, there's one more thing I have to get out of the {disfmarker} I have to make sure that this attachment will open. Industrial Designer: {vocalsound} I keep forgetting whether I've done this. {gap}. Project Manager: Ah-ha. Okay. We'...
After Project Manager first went over the previous meeting and summarized the meeting agenda, Inudstrial Designer started the prototype presentation of the remote control. The remote control should be curved with scroll and push buttons, made by smooth plastic or spongy rubber. Marketing presented the evaluation criter...
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What was the structure of the Bayes-net discussed. Grad B: So I guess this is more or less now just to get you up to date, Johno. This is what, uh, Grad C: This is a meeting for me. Grad B: um, Eva, Bhaskara, and I did. Grad D: Did you add more stuff to it? {pause} later? Grad B: Um. Why? Grad D: Um. I don't know. Ther...
The input layer deriving information from things like the user and situation models, feeds into a set of decision nodes, such as the Enter/View/Approach (EVA) endpoint. In any particular situation, most of the outputs will not be relevant to the given context. Therefore, they will either have to be pruned a posteriori,...
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What was discussed about contextualizing output? Grad B: So I guess this is more or less now just to get you up to date, Johno. This is what, uh, Grad C: This is a meeting for me. Grad B: um, Eva, Bhaskara, and I did. Grad D: Did you add more stuff to it? {pause} later? Grad B: Um. Why? Grad D: Um. I don't know. There ...
Due to most outputs not being relevant to the given context, they will either have to be pruned a posteriori, or only a subset of the possible decision nodes will be computed in each occasion. The latter option could follow a binary search-tree approach and it could also be better in computational terms. In any case, o...
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How does the bayes-net deal with inputs? Grad B: So I guess this is more or less now just to get you up to date, Johno. This is what, uh, Grad C: This is a meeting for me. Grad B: um, Eva, Bhaskara, and I did. Grad D: Did you add more stuff to it? {pause} later? Grad B: Um. Why? Grad D: Um. I don't know. There were, li...
The presented Bayes-net takes inputs from the Situation, User, Discourse and Ontology models. There are several values (elements) defined in each of these models. The inputs are fed into the belief-net, which, in turn, outputs the posterior probabilities for the values of all the decision nodes. These comprise" Go-ther...
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What's the summary of the meeting? Grad B: So I guess this is more or less now just to get you up to date, Johno. This is what, uh, Grad C: This is a meeting for me. Grad B: um, Eva, Bhaskara, and I did. Grad D: Did you add more stuff to it? {pause} later? Grad B: Um. Why? Grad D: Um. I don't know. There were, like, th...
The focus of the meeting was on a presentation of the work done already on the building of the Bayes-net. The complete prototype of the Bayes-net will be presented in the next meeting. After that, it will be possible to define interfaces and a dummy construction parser, in order to test and link modules together.
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What problems and solutions were discussed about the recording data? Professor A: OK. Grad B: OK we're on and we seem to be working. PhD C: Yes. Professor A: OK. Grad B: We didn't crash {disfmarker} we're not crashing anymore PhD C: One, two, three, four, f Grad B: and it really bothers me. Professor A: Yeah? PhD C: No...
A small percentage of transcripts will be changed to reflect mis-read, uncorrected digits. A speaker database will be compiled to establish consistent links between speakers and their corresponding identification tags.
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What was the status of the recording data? Professor A: OK. Grad B: OK we're on and we seem to be working. PhD C: Yes. Professor A: OK. Grad B: We didn't crash {disfmarker} we're not crashing anymore PhD C: One, two, three, four, f Grad B: and it really bothers me. Professor A: Yeah? PhD C: No crashing. PhD G: I do. I ...
The first test set of digits is complete and includes 4,000 lines, each comprising between 1-10 digits. New digits forms were distributed for eliciting different prosodic groupings of numbers. New naming conventions were discussed as means for facilitating the sorting process. Existing files will be changed so that all...
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What were the instructions for the transcribers? Professor A: OK. Grad B: OK we're on and we seem to be working. PhD C: Yes. Professor A: OK. Grad B: We didn't crash {disfmarker} we're not crashing anymore PhD C: One, two, three, four, f Grad B: and it really bothers me. Professor A: Yeah? PhD C: No crashing. PhD G: I ...
The transcribers should only code audible breaths within a grouping of words, and not outside regions of continuous speech. It was further determined that audible breaths are an important facet of recorded speech, and that removing them from the corpus would be contrary to the aims of the project. Speaker mn005 will pr...
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What problems were encountered with transcriptions? Professor A: OK. Grad B: OK we're on and we seem to be working. PhD C: Yes. Professor A: OK. Grad B: We didn't crash {disfmarker} we're not crashing anymore PhD C: One, two, three, four, f Grad B: and it really bothers me. Professor A: Yeah? PhD C: No crashing. PhD G:...
Transcribers are likely to overlook backchannels in densely populated sections of speaker overlap. Speaker mn014 reported that this is also problematic for the automatic detection of speech and non-speech, as backchannels that are very short and not loud enough will inevitably be overlooked. Speaker mn005 reported prob...
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What was the meeting about? Professor A: OK. Grad B: OK we're on and we seem to be working. PhD C: Yes. Professor A: OK. Grad B: We didn't crash {disfmarker} we're not crashing anymore PhD C: One, two, three, four, f Grad B: and it really bothers me. Professor A: Yeah? PhD C: No crashing. PhD G: I do. I crashed when I ...
The group talked about the status of the first test set of digits data, naming conventions for files, speaker identification tags, and encoding files with details about the recording. The group also discussed a proposal for a grant from the NSF's ITR (Information Technology Research) program, transcriptions, and effort...
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What is the main function of the remote? Project Manager: Okay, is everybody ready? Industrial Designer: Yeah? Marketing: Yeah I'd to just put on my microphone here and I'll be right with you. Project Manager: Mm-hmm. Marketing: Okay? Project Manager: Um {vocalsound} I take it you all have received instructions as to w...
The main function is to only control the function of a television at a far off distance. The signal released from the remote through radio waves or infrared can change different functionalities in the television. There should be a timer to set for viewing a particular program or for switching on or off a particular pro...
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What were the other features of the remote mentioned in the discussion of functions of the remote? Project Manager: Okay, is everybody ready? Industrial Designer: Yeah? Marketing: Yeah I'd to just put on my microphone here and I'll be right with you. Project Manager: Mm-hmm. Marketing: Okay? Project Manager: Um {vocals...
The buttons on the remote, installed with infrared bulbs, would be fluorescent whenever the TV is on, so users can find the remote even in the dark. Also, the buttons can glow differently according to different functions. The remote will beep if too many buttons are pressed at once. The team agreed to add a display clo...
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What did the team think about having buttons for multiple operations in the discussion of functions of the remote? Project Manager: Okay, is everybody ready? Industrial Designer: Yeah? Marketing: Yeah I'd to just put on my microphone here and I'll be right with you. Project Manager: Mm-hmm. Marketing: Okay? Project Man...
Marketing said that there is a lot of argument to make one button for one feature because research results show that users complain about how hard it is to learn a new one. This idea might be suitable for people working with computers all the time but the elderly with an arthritic hand might find it difficult. User Int...
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What is the product positioning of the remote? Project Manager: Okay, is everybody ready? Industrial Designer: Yeah? Marketing: Yeah I'd to just put on my microphone here and I'll be right with you. Project Manager: Mm-hmm. Marketing: Okay? Project Manager: Um {vocalsound} I take it you all have received instructions a...
It would be an attractive impulse purchase which would be out in the market by September as a Christmas present of twenty five Euros. It would be for everybody who has a TV, mainly aged ten to forty. In the subgroups of the target group, there are elderly people who have limited functions with their fingers and hands a...
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What is the appearance of the remote? Project Manager: Okay, is everybody ready? Industrial Designer: Yeah? Marketing: Yeah I'd to just put on my microphone here and I'll be right with you. Project Manager: Mm-hmm. Marketing: Okay? Project Manager: Um {vocalsound} I take it you all have received instructions as to what...
The corporate colour and design are recommended to be used on the product. The remote could be in different colours such as pink or banana yellow and shapes such as a fun shape like animal shapes or a comfortable shape that fits the hand but no sharp projections, lest a child plays with it. The idea of buttons with var...
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What did the team think of Project Manager's idea of removable plastic cases when discussing the appearance of the remote? Project Manager: Okay, is everybody ready? Industrial Designer: Yeah? Marketing: Yeah I'd to just put on my microphone here and I'll be right with you. Project Manager: Mm-hmm. Marketing: Okay? Pro...
Project Manager suggested that the remote could have removable plastic cases like phones so users can change to the colour they like, for example, striped or fluorescent blue. Two cases can be provided in the package and users can buy new cases in stores for a few Francs or Euros. The team immediately jumped on board w...
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What are the main components and working design of the remote? Project Manager: Okay, is everybody ready? Industrial Designer: Yeah? Marketing: Yeah I'd to just put on my microphone here and I'll be right with you. Project Manager: Mm-hmm. Marketing: Okay? Project Manager: Um {vocalsound} I take it you all have receive...
The remote control would have a chip in the integrated circuit, taking power from the battery and transforming input from buttons through wires into infrared signals to electronic devices. There will be buttons and underneath them are switches and bulbs. To hold everything in, there should be a case and a remote holder...
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What did the team think of designing different remotes for different categories of people when discussing the working design of the remote? Project Manager: Okay, is everybody ready? Industrial Designer: Yeah? Marketing: Yeah I'd to just put on my microphone here and I'll be right with you. Project Manager: Mm-hmm. Mar...
User Interface suggested adding specific functional buttons for children or the elderly or people with nervous problems. Industrial Designer replied that it wouldn't cost much. Project Manager suggested that they can make forty percent of the remotes with large buttons and regular buttons for the rest. To sum it up, if...
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Summarize the whole meeting. Project Manager: Okay, is everybody ready? Industrial Designer: Yeah? Marketing: Yeah I'd to just put on my microphone here and I'll be right with you. Project Manager: Mm-hmm. Marketing: Okay? Project Manager: Um {vocalsound} I take it you all have received instructions as to what you were...
The meeting started off with Marketing leading the discussion on product positioning of the remote, which was going to be an impulse purchase and certain requirements from management, such as the remote only controlling the television. Then, Industrial Designer shared the working design and main components of the remot...
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Summarize the discussion about generating queries Grad G: headphones that aren't so uncomfortable. PhD B: I think {disfmarker} Well, this should be off the record, Professor D: Hmm. PhD B: but I think {disfmarker} Professor D: Uh, OK. Professor A: We're not recording yet, are we? Grad G: Well, I don't think {disfmarker...
The team wanted to think about how they would generate queries. One method was directly generating queries from the summaries, though the concern was that this would not be very desirable. Asking an open ended question about what was most interesting would allow the team to get a sense of the important topics.
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What did PhD F think about generating queries? Grad G: headphones that aren't so uncomfortable. PhD B: I think {disfmarker} Well, this should be off the record, Professor D: Hmm. PhD B: but I think {disfmarker} Professor D: Uh, OK. Professor A: We're not recording yet, are we? Grad G: Well, I don't think {disfmarker} P...
PhD F thought that it would be interesting to generate queries from the summaries, as that would open up a new area of research. PhD F realized that this may not be feasible, however.
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What did PhD B think about automatically generating queries? Grad G: headphones that aren't so uncomfortable. PhD B: I think {disfmarker} Well, this should be off the record, Professor D: Hmm. PhD B: but I think {disfmarker} Professor D: Uh, OK. Professor A: We're not recording yet, are we? Grad G: Well, I don't think ...
PhD B thought generating queries went beyond the score of the project and that Landay was more equipped to handle a project like that. Though, PhD B recognized the flaw with people generating queries from the summaries
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Summarize the discussion on diversity in speech data Grad G: headphones that aren't so uncomfortable. PhD B: I think {disfmarker} Well, this should be off the record, Professor D: Hmm. PhD B: but I think {disfmarker} Professor D: Uh, OK. Professor A: We're not recording yet, are we? Grad G: Well, I don't think {disfmar...
The team thought it would be worthwhile to get different sorts of meeting data. Meetings will vary in mic placement, speaker sound overlap, and style. Even the dominance relationships in the meetings would cause variance in the data. Some members also wanted to gather TV and radio data.
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What did PhD B think about meeting diversity? Grad G: headphones that aren't so uncomfortable. PhD B: I think {disfmarker} Well, this should be off the record, Professor D: Hmm. PhD B: but I think {disfmarker} Professor D: Uh, OK. Professor A: We're not recording yet, are we? Grad G: Well, I don't think {disfmarker} Ph...
PhD B explained the different features of meetings and favored collection of diverse data. PhD B thought the team's data collection could focus on natural meetings, but there was no reason to not incorporate other data.
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What did the team discuss about politics around collected data? Grad G: headphones that aren't so uncomfortable. PhD B: I think {disfmarker} Well, this should be off the record, Professor D: Hmm. PhD B: but I think {disfmarker} Professor D: Uh, OK. Professor A: We're not recording yet, are we? Grad G: Well, I don't thi...
The team knew that the CMU folks had collected a lot of data, but they were not sure if it was publicly available. It seemed that there was politics involved. The team thought that they could let Mark see if CMU would let them use the data.
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Summarize the meeting Grad G: headphones that aren't so uncomfortable. PhD B: I think {disfmarker} Well, this should be off the record, Professor D: Hmm. PhD B: but I think {disfmarker} Professor D: Uh, OK. Professor A: We're not recording yet, are we? Grad G: Well, I don't think {disfmarker} PhD F: No, uh, that {disfm...
The team was setting up a new project in which they would record meetings and then generate summaries. The meeting began with introductions and a discussion of what kind of data the team could collect. They considered collecting visual data as well as notes. At the end of the meetings, the team wanted to ask participan...
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What was said about IBM? Postdoc A: OK. Grad G: How about channel Professor C: Yeah, go ahead. Grad E: We're recording. Grad G: Alright. Professor C: Alright, and no crash. Postdoc A: Hmm. Grad E: I pre - crashed it. Professor C: Yeah. PhD F: Pre - crashed! PhD D: It never crashes on me. Grad E: I think it's actually {...
One meeting recording has been channelized and pre-segmented for delivery to IBM. A subset of Meeting Recorder data will be prepared (i. e. pre-segmented and manually adjusted) for delivery to IBM.
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What were the preliminary recognition results? Postdoc A: OK. Grad G: How about channel Professor C: Yeah, go ahead. Grad E: We're recording. Grad G: Alright. Professor C: Alright, and no crash. Postdoc A: Hmm. Grad E: I pre - crashed it. Professor C: Yeah. PhD F: Pre - crashed! PhD D: It never crashes on me. Grad E: I...
Preliminary recognition results were obtained for a subset of digits data. The error rate distribution was multimodal, reflecting differences in performance for native versus non-native speakers, and also possible pre-processing errors.
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What did the team say about the transcriber interface? Postdoc A: OK. Grad G: How about channel Professor C: Yeah, go ahead. Grad E: We're recording. Grad G: Alright. Professor C: Alright, and no crash. Postdoc A: Hmm. Grad E: I pre - crashed it. Professor C: Yeah. PhD F: Pre - crashed! PhD D: It never crashes on me. G...
The Transcriber interface may require modifications if it becomes necessary for transcribers to quickly switch among waveform displays.
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What was said about mixed signals? Postdoc A: OK. Grad G: How about channel Professor C: Yeah, go ahead. Grad E: We're recording. Grad G: Alright. Professor C: Alright, and no crash. Postdoc A: Hmm. Grad E: I pre - crashed it. Professor C: Yeah. PhD F: Pre - crashed! PhD D: It never crashes on me. Grad E: I think it's ...
Transcribers risk overlooking speech that is deeply embedded in the mixed signal. Should transcriptions be derived from each of the close-talking channels or from the mixed signal alone? The pre-segmentation tool does not perform well on short utterances, e. g. backchannels.
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What challenges needed to be overcome before submission for Eurospeech'01? Postdoc A: OK. Grad G: How about channel Professor C: Yeah, go ahead. Grad E: We're recording. Grad G: Alright. Professor C: Alright, and no crash. Postdoc A: Hmm. Grad E: I pre - crashed it. Professor C: Yeah. PhD F: Pre - crashed! PhD D: It ne...
Deleting segments of the recordings is expected to be very time-consuming for transcribers. More results are needed for generating adequate submissions for Eurospeech'01.
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What is the future of data alignments? Postdoc A: OK. Grad G: How about channel Professor C: Yeah, go ahead. Grad E: We're recording. Grad G: Alright. Professor C: Alright, and no crash. Postdoc A: Hmm. Grad E: I pre - crashed it. Professor C: Yeah. PhD F: Pre - crashed! PhD D: It never crashes on me. Grad E: I think i...
Future efforts will involve an attempt to get good forced alignments on digits data and generate a report for Eurospeech'01.
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What was said in the meeting? Postdoc A: OK. Grad G: How about channel Professor C: Yeah, go ahead. Grad E: We're recording. Grad G: Alright. Professor C: Alright, and no crash. Postdoc A: Hmm. Grad E: I pre - crashed it. Professor C: Yeah. PhD F: Pre - crashed! PhD D: It never crashes on me. Grad E: I think it's actua...
The group discussed the preparation of a data sample for IBM, the manual adjustment of time bins by transcribers, recognition results for a test set of digits data, and forced alignments. Participants also talked about Eurospeech 2001 submissions, and exchanged comments on the proceedings of the recently attended Human...
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Summarize the discussion about voice-unvoice detection Professor C: OK. So uh, he's not here, PhD D: So. Professor C: so you get to {disfmarker} PhD D: Yeah, I will try to explain the thing that I did this {disfmarker} this week {disfmarker} during this week. Professor C: Yeah. PhD D: Well eh you know that I work {disf...
The existing net for voice-unvoice had three outputs, voice, unvoice, and silence. It took fifteen features as inputs. The team discussed how energy measures could be incorporated to improve performance on this task. The nets took around a day to train, so the team could run more experiments. The current performance on...
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What did the professor think about improving voice-unvoice detection? Professor C: OK. So uh, he's not here, PhD D: So. Professor C: so you get to {disfmarker} PhD D: Yeah, I will try to explain the thing that I did this {disfmarker} this week {disfmarker} during this week. Professor C: Yeah. PhD D: Well eh you know th...
The professor explained that the task typically relied on R-one over R-zero as a measure. He thought that the team should explore the difference between the log FFT and the log magnitude FF spectrum and the filter bank. These were fundamentally different measures which could help the model.
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What did PhD D think about voice-unvoice detection? Professor C: OK. So uh, he's not here, PhD D: So. Professor C: so you get to {disfmarker} PhD D: Yeah, I will try to explain the thing that I did this {disfmarker} this week {disfmarker} during this week. Professor C: Yeah. PhD D: Well eh you know that I work {disfmar...
PhD D explained that voice-unvoice net took fifteen base features and three features of R as inputs. The R features were the variance of the difference between the two spectrums, variance of the auto-correlation function, and the first coefficient of the auto-correlation function. This method, however, was not that muc...
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Summarize the discussion on support vector machines to map MFCC to phonological features Professor C: OK. So uh, he's not here, PhD D: So. Professor C: so you get to {disfmarker} PhD D: Yeah, I will try to explain the thing that I did this {disfmarker} this week {disfmarker} during this week. Professor C: Yeah. PhD D: ...
Support vector machines were better at dealing with a lower amount of data, so they could do a reasonable job learning patterns in MFCC without too much work. They worked by finding an optimal separating plane. This was more efficient as the model picked only critical points as opposed to doing more computationally exp...
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What did the professor think about support vector machines for speech recognition? Professor C: OK. So uh, he's not here, PhD D: So. Professor C: so you get to {disfmarker} PhD D: Yeah, I will try to explain the thing that I did this {disfmarker} this week {disfmarker} during this week. Professor C: Yeah. PhD D: Well e...
The professor recalled that people at Mississippi state were using support vector machines for speech recognition by estimating probabilities. The results were not significant, but they were reasonable.
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What did Grad A explain about his vectors for his support vector machine? Professor C: OK. So uh, he's not here, PhD D: So. Professor C: so you get to {disfmarker} PhD D: Yeah, I will try to explain the thing that I did this {disfmarker} this week {disfmarker} during this week. Professor C: Yeah. PhD D: Well eh you kno...
Grad A explained that his vector contained binary values for whether a phonological feature exists or not. The goal was to come up with a mapping from a feature set to the existence of a particular phonological feature. He was not doing the mapping yet. The goal was simply detecting features at the time.
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Summarize the meeting Professor C: OK. So uh, he's not here, PhD D: So. Professor C: so you get to {disfmarker} PhD D: Yeah, I will try to explain the thing that I did this {disfmarker} this week {disfmarker} during this week. Professor C: Yeah. PhD D: Well eh you know that I work {disfmarker} I begin to work with a ne...
The meeting began with an update on the voice-unvoice detection. The professor suggested the solution might just be feeding the log magnitude of the spectrum into a simple neural net. The team then had a brief discussion about some confusing formula on the France Telecom proposal. Following this, the team talked about ...
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Summarize the group discussion about finance and budget control. Project Manager: So {disfmarker} Hello. {vocalsound} Marketing: Good afternoon. Sorry I'm a little late. Project Manager: No problem. Marketing: Got stuck in the traffic. Project Manager: Okay. {vocalsound} User Interface: {vocalsound} Industrial Designer...
When the group found out that they came across a fairly tight budget, they cut the number of batteries from 2 to 1 and chose plastic as the cheapest case material supplement. But they still kept the advanced chip, LCD screen, and docking station, all of which they considered to be the strength of the product. After tha...
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How did the group decide to reduce the cost of buttons? Project Manager: So {disfmarker} Hello. {vocalsound} Marketing: Good afternoon. Sorry I'm a little late. Project Manager: No problem. Marketing: Got stuck in the traffic. Project Manager: Okay. {vocalsound} User Interface: {vocalsound} Industrial Designer: {vocals...
Firstly, when the group realized that cost was chiefly incurred by excessive buttons, they quickly decided to discard the help and the mute button. But then they found out that the primary cost drivers were 10 buttons for program numbers. To get rid of them, Project Manager boldly proposed replacing them with a scroll-...
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Why was Marketing discontent with all those changes made to buttons during the discussion about finance? Project Manager: So {disfmarker} Hello. {vocalsound} Marketing: Good afternoon. Sorry I'm a little late. Project Manager: No problem. Marketing: Got stuck in the traffic. Project Manager: Okay. {vocalsound} User Int...
First and foremost, Marketing believed that the elder generation expected to have ten buttons for the number one to zero, rather than a scroll-wheel with radio buttons, which would inevitably harm the usability. In this case, a lot of marketing would be required to convince elderly users, who were unfamiliar with fancy...
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Summarize the group discussion about project evaluation. Project Manager: So {disfmarker} Hello. {vocalsound} Marketing: Good afternoon. Sorry I'm a little late. Project Manager: No problem. Marketing: Got stuck in the traffic. Project Manager: Okay. {vocalsound} User Interface: {vocalsound} Industrial Designer: {vocal...
Though Project Manager forgot to prepare evaluation criteria beforehand, Marketing had analyzed project requirements and brought forward a systematic set of criteria, according to which product was graded by the whole group. Then, under the guidance of Project Manager, the group evaluated the project process. Eventuall...
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What specific criteria did Marketing bring forward for product evaluation? Project Manager: So {disfmarker} Hello. {vocalsound} Marketing: Good afternoon. Sorry I'm a little late. Project Manager: No problem. Marketing: Got stuck in the traffic. Project Manager: Okay. {vocalsound} User Interface: {vocalsound} Industria...
On the basis of literature study and requirements analysis carried out by Marketing, specific criteria were as follows: design innovation, learnability, functionality, utility, cost, target customer, recognizability, etc. After the group brought forward a score for each in sequence, the total score was calculated as 84...
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During process evaluation, why did not Marketing agree that the meeting process was moving along the right phases? Project Manager: So {disfmarker} Hello. {vocalsound} Marketing: Good afternoon. Sorry I'm a little late. Project Manager: No problem. Marketing: Got stuck in the traffic. Project Manager: Okay. {vocalsound...
When it came to processing evaluation, though Industrial Designer appeared to think highly of Project Manager's arrangements, Marketing clearly voiced his dissent. as he explained, it is obvious that financial issues were touched on too late, making it imperative to further adjust to the final design during budget cont...
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Summarize the whole meeting. Project Manager: So {disfmarker} Hello. {vocalsound} Marketing: Good afternoon. Sorry I'm a little late. Project Manager: No problem. Marketing: Got stuck in the traffic. Project Manager: Okay. {vocalsound} User Interface: {vocalsound} Industrial Designer: {vocalsound} Project Manager: That...
The whole meeting was the final meeting of the project for discussion about the final design and project evaluation. Firstly, though Project Manager came late, he efficiently started the prototype presentation, during which Industrial Designer and User Interface presented the final design they worked out together. Howe...
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How did Industrial Designer introduce the two prototypes of the remote control? Marketing: Did you get my email with the slides? Ah. Tricky. Industrial Designer: I guess I have to change the pen otherwise. Will be completely different. Marketing: Dunno. Maybe they're supposed {disfmarker} the pen's supposed to go over ...
Both the devices had the special shape, like the surf-board. The first prototype was a pretty simple design with LCD display and an on-off button in red. It was easy to use and could only be used for the TV mode. After all, the team concluded that it was a standard design except for its special shape that made it look ...
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How did Marketing design the product evaluation? Marketing: Did you get my email with the slides? Ah. Tricky. Industrial Designer: I guess I have to change the pen otherwise. Will be completely different. Marketing: Dunno. Maybe they're supposed {disfmarker} the pen's supposed to go over the seats. Might be seat floor ...
Marketing recalled what the team had identified as being important to sell the product for both the devices and made a list of features from the marketing point of view. For both of the prototypes, Marketing asked the team to give one to seven points to each feature of the product and the lower the points the better th...
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What did the team discuss during the product evaluation? Marketing: Did you get my email with the slides? Ah. Tricky. Industrial Designer: I guess I have to change the pen otherwise. Will be completely different. Marketing: Dunno. Maybe they're supposed {disfmarker} the pen's supposed to go over the seats. Might be sea...
The team agreed that although the cover was movable, the case design was moderate. Also, the way the device could be held was not attractive and easy for all, since the left-handed people would choose to use it with the other hand, which made it really annoying. When it came to innovation, Industrial Designer believed ...
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What did the team discuss about the product cost? Marketing: Did you get my email with the slides? Ah. Tricky. Industrial Designer: I guess I have to change the pen otherwise. Will be completely different. Marketing: Dunno. Maybe they're supposed {disfmarker} the pen's supposed to go over the seats. Might be seat floor...
The first design obviously met the requirements of the budget so the team focused on the second one to see whether the combination of the two designs could together form an innovative design but was under the budget at the same time. To cut costs, the Project Manager first suggested using normal chips only in exchange ...
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Summarize the whole meeting. Marketing: Did you get my email with the slides? Ah. Tricky. Industrial Designer: I guess I have to change the pen otherwise. Will be completely different. Marketing: Dunno. Maybe they're supposed {disfmarker} the pen's supposed to go over the seats. Might be seat floor rather than person. ...
Firstly, Industrial Designer introduced both the cheap one and the other, the expensive prototype of remote control based on the previous discussion of its function. Both the devices had the special shape, like the surf-board. The first prototype was a pretty simple design with LCD display and a conventional layout of ...
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Summarize the presentation on Market Research and adjustments due to new project demands. Project Manager: {vocalsound} Oh. User Interface: Du Project Manager: Okay. Thanks for coming to this meeting. Marketing: Hm. Project Manager: S how we doing on our remote? User Interface: {vocalsound} Project Manager: We have som...
Through market research, Marketing believed that the modern appearance of the remote control is important. Useless buttons can be combined or multi-functional remote control can be designed. Voice recognition function and positioning function are necessary.
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What ideas did User Interface suggest when discussing market research and related adjustments? Project Manager: {vocalsound} Oh. User Interface: Du Project Manager: Okay. Thanks for coming to this meeting. Marketing: Hm. Project Manager: S how we doing on our remote? User Interface: {vocalsound} Project Manager: We hav...
User Interface advocated to adjust to meet the needs of users from the perspective of technical function design. It is mainly user-centred, reducing buttons and making it easier to use. In addition, User Interface suggested that the general remote controller proposed by marketing will increase the budget and button, so...
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What ideas did Industrial Designer suggest when discussing market research and related adjustments? Project Manager: {vocalsound} Oh. User Interface: Du Project Manager: Okay. Thanks for coming to this meeting. Marketing: Hm. Project Manager: S how we doing on our remote? User Interface: {vocalsound} Project Manager: W...
Industrial Designer believed that the basic function of the remote control is to send messages to another system. The remote control needed an energy source to supply power to the integrated circuit, and had a chip and related information to control the infrared lamp. In the design, it can make the battery and infrared...
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What views did Project Manager get from the last meeting review and market research? Project Manager: {vocalsound} Oh. User Interface: Du Project Manager: Okay. Thanks for coming to this meeting. Marketing: Hm. Project Manager: S how we doing on our remote? User Interface: {vocalsound} Project Manager: We have some {di...
From the last meeting, Project Manager concluded that the team needed to design a modern, interesting, distinctive, sturdy, positioning remote control. In order to be distinctive, the team can adopt a spherical or keyboard shape design. Based on the market research, Project Manager thought that a rechargeable battery o...
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Summarize the team's discussion on the specific shape design of the remote control. Project Manager: {vocalsound} Oh. User Interface: Du Project Manager: Okay. Thanks for coming to this meeting. Marketing: Hm. Project Manager: S how we doing on our remote? User Interface: {vocalsound} Project Manager: We have some {dis...
The project manager thought that the shape of the remote control can be designed as a bone or cube to reduce the number of buttons, and add the company's yellow and grey color. Marketing believed that anti lost equipment can be designed. Since it's a one-handed project, Marketing proposed to design a special version fo...
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What detailed suggestions did Industrial Designer put forward when discussing the specific shape design of remote control? Project Manager: {vocalsound} Oh. User Interface: Du Project Manager: Okay. Thanks for coming to this meeting. Marketing: Hm. Project Manager: S how we doing on our remote? User Interface: {vocalso...
Industrial Designer proposed to design mouse-like click function and the scrolling function which is the simplest in technology. In addition, some small protuberances can be designed under the remote control, which is more convenient for users from the perspective of ergonomics, and the battery can be installed from th...
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Summarize the whole meeting. Project Manager: {vocalsound} Oh. User Interface: Du Project Manager: Okay. Thanks for coming to this meeting. Marketing: Hm. Project Manager: S how we doing on our remote? User Interface: {vocalsound} Project Manager: We have some {disfmarker} we have some ideas and some uh ideas for what ...
First, the project manager briefly reviewed the last meeting. According to market research, Marketing suggested adopting modern appearance, reducing buttons, increasing positioning and voice recognition functions. From the perspective of technical function design, User Interface emphasized that the user should be the c...
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Summarize the group discussion about the functional design. Project Manager: Okay everybody is ready? {vocalsound} Good morning again. So, today we are going to have a f second meeting. Oh Michael, hi. User Interface: Yep. Project Manager: You're late. You have a good reason for that? User Interface: {vocalsound} Yes. ...
The group agreed that the remote should be fancy and easy to be hand-held. It should not be too small or too big in good shape. They agreed to bring new technologies and push toward the internet for young peoples. So they would use the wheel to navigate. Also regarding the budget, they had a new target price but it wou...
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What did group mates think of a universal design suggested by Industrial Designer? Project Manager: Okay everybody is ready? {vocalsound} Good morning again. So, today we are going to have a f second meeting. Oh Michael, hi. User Interface: Yep. Project Manager: You're late. You have a good reason for that? User Interf...
Industrial Designer thought a universal shape design should be good for both the hands. User Interface suggested that they could still design to extend past the hand and have something like finger grips on the remote compared to the traditional ones. Marketing supplemented that it should not be symmetrical. And Project...
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What did Project Manager think of the incorporation of an LCD or a speech recognition system in the remote control? Project Manager: Okay everybody is ready? {vocalsound} Good morning again. So, today we are going to have a f second meeting. Oh Michael, hi. User Interface: Yep. Project Manager: You're late. You have a ...
Marketing mentioned that most of the young people to thirty years old were interested in this kind of technology. However, Project Manager updated him and group mates that head offices would like to restrict the remote control to TV only because of time limitations. Therefore, Project Manager suggested the group focusi...
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What's User Interface's opinions toward Marketing when discussing the transition to new remote control? Project Manager: Okay everybody is ready? {vocalsound} Good morning again. So, today we are going to have a f second meeting. Oh Michael, hi. User Interface: Yep. Project Manager: You're late. You have a good reason ...
When User Interface mentioned about they need to keep the buttons down to a minimum, Marketing thought the transition to this new remote control shouldn't be very abrupt because if people would think it's very difficult to learn a remote control without numbers. User Interface responded that it would depend on how they...
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What did Project Manager think of the scroll wheel suggested by User Interface? Project Manager: Okay everybody is ready? {vocalsound} Good morning again. So, today we are going to have a f second meeting. Oh Michael, hi. User Interface: Yep. Project Manager: You're late. You have a good reason for that? User Interface...
User Interface suggested that the scroll wheel could be used without an LCD screen for changing channel numbers easily. And it would be fairly cheap to implement compared to an LCD screen. Project Manager mentioned that, however, they had seen that there was a new way of interacting that used wheels to navigate. So Pro...
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Summarize the discussion about speech recognition technology. Project Manager: Okay everybody is ready? {vocalsound} Good morning again. So, today we are going to have a f second meeting. Oh Michael, hi. User Interface: Yep. Project Manager: You're late. You have a good reason for that? User Interface: {vocalsound} Yes...
User Interface thought that sometimes the speech recognition interrupted people when there was a dialogue on the TV program. Unless the remote control could be made to not have to pick up any more, that would be a useful feature of speech recognition. Project Manager was not keen on it because Project Manager was not c...
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Summarize the whole meeting. Project Manager: Okay everybody is ready? {vocalsound} Good morning again. So, today we are going to have a f second meeting. Oh Michael, hi. User Interface: Yep. Project Manager: You're late. You have a good reason for that? User Interface: {vocalsound} Yes. Industrial Designer: {vocalsoun...
Project Manager started introducing meeting purposes on the functional design of the remote control. Group mates have agreed to name the project as'Mando'. Next, Marketing presented user requirements and market reports on current remote improvements. User Interface presented the current trend on remote controls. User I...
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Summarize the debate about the flaws in government's pandemic relief program. The Chair (Hon. Anthony Rota (NipissingTimiskaming, Lib.) ): I call this meeting to order. Welcome to the 14thmeeting of the House of Commons Special Committee on the COVID-19 Pandemic. This will be a hybrid meeting. Some members will be part...
The leader of the opposition party raised the point that some companies which had purchased other companies might not be eligible for the wage subsidy program, and money allocated for the wage subsidy was going unspent because the government had left in unnecessarily rigid barriers for companies to be able to access it...
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How did racism and long-term care related to government's policy? The Chair (Hon. Anthony Rota (NipissingTimiskaming, Lib.) ): I call this meeting to order. Welcome to the 14thmeeting of the House of Commons Special Committee on the COVID-19 Pandemic. This will be a hybrid meeting. Some members will be participating vi...
The leader of the opposition party wished to know that race-based or discriminatory police practices still exist across Canada. The minister reassured that there would not be such a thing in the police system. And also, the opposition party questioned about the inadequate long-term care facilities in Canada, and the mi...
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Summarize the questioning about Canada summer jobs program. The Chair (Hon. Anthony Rota (NipissingTimiskaming, Lib.) ): I call this meeting to order. Welcome to the 14thmeeting of the House of Commons Special Committee on the COVID-19 Pandemic. This will be a hybrid meeting. Some members will be participating via vide...
Members from the opposition party questioned that employers from industry, businesses and community organizations that have been approved in the Canada summer jobs program had not yet received the money they are entitled to. The Minister of Families, Children and Social Development answered that they were putting in st...
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Summarize the questioning about the local production of surgical masks, protective gowns and N95 masks. The Chair (Hon. Anthony Rota (NipissingTimiskaming, Lib.) ): I call this meeting to order. Welcome to the 14thmeeting of the House of Commons Special Committee on the COVID-19 Pandemic. This will be a hybrid meeting....
Since the government cancelled contracts with companies that were not able to meet Canadian standards, the member highlighted that it should be supporting more local companies for production. The minister answered that the government had been running multiple complementary supply chains at the same time, and were signi...
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What did the opposition party and the minister debated about transparency of information during pandemic crisis? The Chair (Hon. Anthony Rota (NipissingTimiskaming, Lib.) ): I call this meeting to order. Welcome to the 14thmeeting of the House of Commons Special Committee on the COVID-19 Pandemic. This will be a hybrid...
The Minister of Canadian Heritage explained that the government remained committed to maintaining the openness and transparency during the crisis. However, the opposition party questioned about the allocation of $35 billion of infrastructure money. The opposition party suspected that the money went to personal salary a...
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How was the reopening of the House of Commons related to the diplomatic relations of Canada? The Chair (Hon. Anthony Rota (NipissingTimiskaming, Lib.) ): I call this meeting to order. Welcome to the 14thmeeting of the House of Commons Special Committee on the COVID-19 Pandemic. This will be a hybrid meeting. Some membe...
According to the introduction of the opposition party, it has the power to introduce supply day motions and test government confidence. And the opposition party hoped that through this regime, Canada would take stronger diplomatic action on Hong Kong and gave more support for 300,000 Canadians living there. The Ministe...
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Why was the advance payment program delayed? The Chair (Hon. Anthony Rota (NipissingTimiskaming, Lib.) ): I call this meeting to order. Welcome to the 14thmeeting 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 an...
The Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food promised that under the circumstances, the government was doing its best to make the advance payments. Some of the delays were caused by staff having to work remotely. However, the opposition party suggested that there was policy change that made the eligibility for these loans...
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What was the discussion about amendments of policies on protecting workers'and pensioners'rights? The Chair (Hon. Anthony Rota (NipissingTimiskaming, Lib.) ): I call this meeting to order. Welcome to the 14thmeeting of the House of Commons Special Committee on the COVID-19 Pandemic. This will be a hybrid meeting. Some ...
The opposition party raised the problem that thousands of Canadian workers were exposed and vulnerable, and might experience bankruptcy anytime. The opposition party also stated that the changes the government made last year to bankruptcy insolvency laws were largely cosmetic and would not protect workers'and pensioner...
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What was the debate about government providing direct financial assistance to people living with disabilities? The Chair (Hon. Anthony Rota (NipissingTimiskaming, Lib.) ): I call this meeting to order. Welcome to the 14thmeeting of the House of Commons Special Committee on the COVID-19 Pandemic. This will be a hybrid m...
The minister explained that the government was committed to advancing on the issues that have been identified by Canadians with disabilities and they were continuing that engagement. However, the opposition party argued that the support was delayed several times. The minister argued that they had done a lot, such as es...
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How was the tourism industry in Canada being affected, and what was the government's implementations to ease the loss? The Chair (Hon. Anthony Rota (NipissingTimiskaming, Lib.) ): I call this meeting to order. Welcome to the 14thmeeting of the House of Commons Special Committee on the COVID-19 Pandemic. This will be a ...
The opposition party stated that the government announced investments of $70 million to offset financial losses in the tourism industry across Canada, but it was not enough. There would be job losses and permanent closures of restaurants and boardwalk shops. The Minister of Economic Development and Official Languages e...
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How was the government going to deal with overwhelming federal debt? The Chair (Hon. Anthony Rota (NipissingTimiskaming, Lib.) ): I call this meeting to order. Welcome to the 14thmeeting of the House of Commons Special Committee on the COVID-19 Pandemic. This will be a hybrid meeting. Some members will be participating...
The minister placed assurance on coming out with a broader plan once the pandemic situation became more stable economically. At the same time, coming into this pandemic in a strong fiscal position with the lowest amount of debt among the G7 countries gave the government opportunities to invest on behalf of Canadians, a...
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What was the debate over the economic recovery plan? The Chair (Hon. Anthony Rota (NipissingTimiskaming, Lib.) ): I call this meeting to order. Welcome to the 14thmeeting 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 confe...
The opposition party stressed that the government needed to present a picture of the economic situation and a picture of its overall emergency measures. The minister explained that they felt that it was very important to consider what that need to do in each phase of the recovery. Thus, they would not announce an overa...
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Summarize the whole meeting. The Chair (Hon. Anthony Rota (NipissingTimiskaming, Lib.) ): I call this meeting to order. Welcome to the 14thmeeting 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 p...
It was a heated debate between the opposition party and the ministers. The members from the opposition parties first pointed out some flaws in the government's current measures in hoping to better implement them. However, some of their suggestions were either not adopted or avoided. The opposition party also addressed ...
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Summarize the difficulties carrying out the curriculum reform faced by secondary school. Lynne Neagle AM: Good morning, everyone. Welcome to the Children, Young People and Education Committee this morning. I've received no apologies for absence. Can I ask Members if there are any declarations of interest, please? No. O...
First of all, although a number of primary schools have surplus funds, still a lot of secondary schools are in deficit and low on funds. Also recent years have seen a shortage of teachers with appropriate initial teacher training. There are concerns as well that schools in the bottom layer may find it difficult to adap...
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What did Meilyr Rowlands think of the shortage of teachers? Lynne Neagle AM: Good morning, everyone. Welcome to the Children, Young People and Education Committee this morning. I've received no apologies for absence. Can I ask Members if there are any declarations of interest, please? No. Okay, thank you. Item 2 this m...
Meilyr Rowlands thought it was a challenge to recruit new teachers and improve the initial training. In the long term, he believed that education should become more attractive for young people and more mature people to go into, while in the short term, looking at initial teacher training would be the top priority.
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What did Meilyr Rowlands say about the additional challenge for secondary schools? Lynne Neagle AM: Good morning, everyone. Welcome to the Children, Young People and Education Committee this morning. I've received no apologies for absence. Can I ask Members if there are any declarations of interest, please? No. Okay, t...
The children in secondary schools themselves are older and therefore have greater challenges. As a result, it's also more difficult to engage with the parents of older children than younger children.
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What was Sian Gwenllian's concern about the schools in the bottom layer? Lynne Neagle AM: Good morning, everyone. Welcome to the Children, Young People and Education Committee this morning. I've received no apologies for absence. Can I ask Members if there are any declarations of interest, please? No. Okay, thank you. ...
There were 12 percent of secondary schools under Estonian review and 11 percent of them were in special measures. He worried that these schools lacked enough support and fundings to adapt to the new curriculum reform and face greater difficulties.
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What did Jassa Scott talk about the work of regional consortia? Lynne Neagle AM: Good morning, everyone. Welcome to the Children, Young People and Education Committee this morning. I've received no apologies for absence. Can I ask Members if there are any declarations of interest, please? No. Okay, thank you. Item 2 th...
Jassa Scott believed they had prioritized the work that schools were doing around literacy and numeracy, yet the support for schools to develop digital competence were a bit weaker. Also their support for secondary schools had less impact across the consortia than for primary schools.
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What did Jassa Scott and Janet Finch-Saunders agree on the priority of the inspections? Lynne Neagle AM: Good morning, everyone. Welcome to the Children, Young People and Education Committee this morning. I've received no apologies for absence. Can I ask Members if there are any declarations of interest, please? No. Ok...
They agreed that the first area they would look specifically at would be the work of consortia to support curriculum work. Local government legislation were also under debate, which was an opportunity to adapt the inspection to look specifically at their work.
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What did Claire Morgan talk about the skill development in early year settings? Lynne Neagle AM: Good morning, everyone. Welcome to the Children, Young People and Education Committee this morning. I've received no apologies for absence. Can I ask Members if there are any declarations of interest, please? No. Okay, than...
She held the view that children aged 3-5 were often introduced to things too early when they're not at that developmental stage. As a result, in the long term children would lose confidence with a lot of negative impressions.
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What was the top priority in skills developing, according to Meilyr Rowlands? Lynne Neagle AM: Good morning, everyone. Welcome to the Children, Young People and Education Committee this morning. I've received no apologies for absence. Can I ask Members if there are any declarations of interest, please? No. Okay, thank ...
He believed literacy still needed to be the top priority, because it was something that underpinned the rest of education. Yet work was still needed to be done to continue prioritizing it.
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What did the group talk about the progress in numeracy skills? Lynne Neagle AM: Good morning, everyone. Welcome to the Children, Young People and Education Committee this morning. I've received no apologies for absence. Can I ask Members if there are any declarations of interest, please? No. Okay, thank you. Item 2 thi...
Meilyr Rowlands thought it was a fairly clear good news to see the improvements on the PISA results in maths, which could be attributed to the new GCSE mathematics numeracy. Also they agreed it was a good news story to see much more mathematics knowledge to be applied in a problem-solving situation. With regard to the ...
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