First meeting with team members attending AAATE Conference.
Discuss ethics and digital consent forms and use of tablets with AAC support.
This is a telephone call meeting to discuss the start of the Arabic Symbol Dictionary project and use of Insipio for TTS for another year etc. There is no set Agenda
Attendees – David Banes, Aejaz Zahid and E.A. Draffan
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Arabic Symbol Dictionary – Agenda January 8th, 2015, 12.30pm Qatar time and 09.30am UK time
Welcome
- Those attending and apologies
- Minutes of the last meeting – changes and acceptance
- Any matters arising from the minutes – ARASAAC contact, Audio recordings and Arabic translation.
- Voting choices for Symbol Manager that will be used on 19th January, 2015
- Organisation of voting lunch on 19th January, 2015
- Core vocabularies – First 400/500 Arabic words/phrases
- Parts of Speech and lexical entry issues
- Checking with Dana that Google+ and symbol creation working well.
- Timescales for Year 2 – work packages – any changes needed?
- Conference proposals and acceptances – CSUN etc.
- AOB
- Next Telemeeting – Phone number for Southampton #4402380593667