The goal of ViSiCAST is to improve the quality of life of Europe's deaf citizens by widening their access to services and facilities enjoyed by the community at large. The project identifies a number of aspects of life where the integration of deaf individuals in society would be improved if sign language communication was available: access to public services, commercial transactions and entertainment, learning and leisure opportunities including broadcast and interactive television and the e-commerce and the World Wide Web.

The chosen medium of communication for the deaf community is the European deaf languages and hence services and facilities must be made accessible through these recognised European languages. The core of the project will build and strengthen partner's detailed understanding of the richness and complex structure of these languages. At the same time it will develop complex computer linguistic methods to convert contextual speech and text to machine readable form fto generate appropriate intelligible sign.