Context:As outline by European Union in the webpage on "Learning: anytime, anywhere foreveryone" http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/edutra/index_en.htm, modern,effective education and training systems are vital to a vast array of social dimensionfrom economic competitiveness to social inclusion. Information and communicationstechnologies (ICTs) are part of the answer, improving traditional education andproviding flexible learning solutions to people throughout their life.Starting from these assumptions, Net4Voice considers education in a traditionalclassroom as still the most pervasive way to support learning. Nevertheless, there areneeds related to accessibility, effectiveness of learning that are not properly addressedin the traditional classrooms. On this regard, traditional face to face (F2F) education,although extremely important and unique, presents constraints due to physical,temporal, cultural barriers that could hinder the access and the effectiveness of learning.Objectives:The final aim of the project is to increase quality and learning opportunities for the wholesociety, promoting the adoption of barrier free learning environments and thedevelopment of innovative learning methodologies based on speech-recognition (SR)technologies.In particular, Net4Voice aims at defining a clear scheme to assess the impact of SRtechnologies in education, by experimenting SR on at least three different learningcontexts: university, school and adult education classrooms. Secondly it evaluates theimpact on key actors involved, such as students and teachers, by particularly focusingon learning settings addressed to people with disabilities.Expected Outcomes:As a result, the project will produce a tested and validated learning methodology thatcan be shared with other educational Institutions in order to create a stable and broadernetwork.Net4Voice also aims at producing a standardised and innovative pedagogicaldocumentation and the share of expertise among the partners.Activities: The main activities carried out by the partners during the project will be:- Developing a joint speech-recognition technology based learning methodology, toincrease the accessibility and the effectiveness of learning at all of its stages (oneprofessor for each partner);- Training professors of the educational settings identified by partners on the developedmethodology (all partners);- Testing the speech-recognition technology based methodology within the educationalsettings identified by partners (at least HE, School and Adult Education) (all partners);- Sharing and validating the results of the experimentation (all partners);- Setting up a virtual intranet workspace for the management of the project and theexchange of information (coordinator);- Setting up the project web site for the exploitation and disseminating actions(coordinator);- Evaluating the scalability of the testing results and planning dissemination andexploitation activities (coordinator).