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Voice for Information Society Universal Access and Learning

Objective

The objective of this project is to develop voice-based technology in order to improve the access of visually impaired people to the information society. Information will be offered not only as a graphic interface but using voice. The use of VoiceXML technology ensure that the information will reach the user without time losses and totally independent of the graphic interface and the accessing device. Although oriented to visually impaired people, the same development can be use for everybody. Also, any page already designed will be easily adapted to our voice solution, keeping the same structure and richness and in different official languages of the European Union. An e-learning portal oriented to visually impaired people will be designed as a test of the solution.

DESCRIPTION OF WORK
Work is divided into supportive/horizontal and technical/scientific work packages (WP). The Consortium's members have designed the project into 7 work packages to divide the complexity of the work appropriately. Each work package has a verifiable end-point. Technical work is dedicated to the development of VISUAL tool and e-learning portal. After a first analysis and definition of test scenarios, existing data, and documents together with a risk analysis, the work will concentrate on the development of the following modules:
WP1 USER REQUIREMENTS OF ACCESSIBILITY AND WEB AUTHORING TOOL
WP2 PLUGINS FOR SPEECH RECOGNITION AND SYNTHESIS INTEGRATION
WP3 TOOL DEVELOPMENT
WP4 CREATION OF AN ACCESSIBLE LEARNING PORTAL
WP5 EVALUATION WP6 DISSEMINATION, STANDARDIZATION AND EXPLOITATION
WP7 PROJECT MANAGEMENT
A first effort in Work package 3 (Tool Development) will be dedicated to purely technical work and will start before the end of work packages 1 and 2 (User requirements, and integration of plug-ins). However, the result of those work packages is necessary in order to complete the objectives. After the initial work packages, it is expected to have defined what is necessary to ex-press in VoiceXML about a page.
It must be described:
1. What kind of help is really important to provide to a visually impaired person in order to improve his Web navigation.
2. What kind of descriptions must be supplied with the page to described properly general description of the page, images, videos, frames, Macromedia Flash animations, backgrounds, and so on.
3. What can be done to help people to introduce data, and to interact with the Web page in a bi-directional mode. Downloaded HTML pages will be in the client side. These pages will be interpreted by the Web browser with the voice plug-in built in it- and read. The user will be able to decide whether it want or not voice help simply by clicking in a box.

MILESTONES
- A manual for the Web interpretation, information extraction and requirements for visually impaired people.
- Manual with the requirements of Web design tools for visually impaired people.
- Web design tool using voice.
- A multilingual European e-learning portal using voice.
- Creation of a VISUAL certificate of accessibility.
- Exploitation and dissemination of the results.
- Revision of the project after one year.

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CSC - Cost-sharing contracts

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SOLUZIONA TELECOMMUNICACIONES, S.A.
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CALLE INFANTA MERCEDES 31, PLANTA 2
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