In the back of the Boston Citizens Opera House, Laura Pailler prepares for a matinee of “Funny Girl,” the revival musical about an aspiring comedian and Broadway star. Pailler is here to provide audio ...

Since the recent explosion of widely available generative artificial intelligence (AI), it now seems that a new AI tool emerges every week. With varying success, AI offers solutions for productivity, ...

Audio description (AD) is defined as “the verbal depiction of key visual elements in media and live productions.” Essentially, AD is a narration of meaningful visual information in a video to provide ...

New AI solution makes audio description faster, more affordable, and scalable across education, government, and ...

Voice actors have the power to transport audiences to other worlds. A particularly meaningful type of voice acting—audio description or description narration—is vital to making television, movies, ...

Identify what important visual content will need to be described audibly (e.g. graphs, equations, images, etc.) for individuals with vision impairments. Important on-screen text should also be ...

Media accessibility is a cornerstone of modern inclusive design, ensuring that digital content is available to all audiences, irrespective of sensory limitations. Central to this endeavour is audio ...

This year, Global Accessibility Awareness Day falls on May 19. And Netflix is using the occasion to announce major plans to expand the global translations of its audio descriptions and subtitles for ...

Kathryn Locke is employed as a researcher on the Australian Research Council's discovery grant, "Diversifying audio description in the Australian digital landscape". Tama Leaver receives funding from ...