Agenda for 10/17/2006 RT-07 Telecon - Updated 2006.10.13

- Call to order

- Participant introductions
  
- Task modifications
  - Speaker Attributed STT Task
    - NIST volunteers to champion the task: eval code in place
  - Speech Activity Detection (SAD) Task to be sunset
  - Speaker Detection (SPKR) Task
    - SPKR systems will be diagnostically scored for SAD
    - Lecture data will not be used for the SPKR task
    - Shift to forced word alignment-mediated reference segmentation
  - New tasks:
    - Who will champion each new task?
    - Vocal classification task: nonspeech, non-lexical speech, and lexical speech.
    - N-modal classification task: nonspeech, speech, overlapping speech

- Data issues
  - New development data: Has additional data been released? 
    - Cutoff date for new data releases
    - Data harmonization effort: Who would like to form a working group?
  - Evaluation data:
    - At the workshop we decided to build a single test set which 
      contains both conference and lecture data and that the meeting 
      type will be side information.  Any opposing view points?
    - Should we require at lease one mic array?
    - Who will donate meetings to the test set?
      NIST: YES
      CMU: Likely

- Workshop organization
  - We propose to change the workshop format to have fewer technical presentations
    and replace them with a poster session and invited talks.
    - Item to discuss: how to select featured talks.

- Putative Evaluation Schedule
  - May 8-9, 2007    CLEAR Workshop 
  - May 10-11, 2007  RT Workshop 
  - A proposed evaluation schedule will be circulated prior to the telecon

- Action item review

- Adjourn