An audio description is narration, spoken out loud. It explains visual details. This allows visual content to be accessible to the blind or those with vision impairments. Audio descriptions of visual content is important if, for example, a video provides content that is relevant to the overall understanding of the video but is not available/ recognized through the default audio already present. For example an audio description can take a movie, and talk you through it. The narrator tells you what is happening on the screen what you can not figure out just from the soundtrack.
Technique for informing visitors about the visual images and action of a video, stage, or an exhibition space that are undescribed in the narration. See Appendix for Audio description symbol.
an audible description of the visual content of a presentation, synchronized with the existing soundtrack
a verbal description of the visual content of a presentation
a verbal statement of on-screen visuals, usually inserted between dialogue
Additional spoken audio supplementing a video soundtrack by describing key events taking place.
A track of narrative designed for blind people which describes the visual imagery and action in a film, television program or multimedia presentation that runs at the same time as the normal audio track. The person listening will hear the pictures described alongside the dialogue.
The addition of audio content to a video product to read titles, speaker names and scenery, object, and other vital information for the viewer who cannot see.
Audio narration that is added to the soundtrack to explain important details that cannot be understood from the main soundtrack alone. During pauses in dialog, audio descriptions of video provide information about actions, characters, scene changes and on-screen text to people who are blind or visually impaired.
An additional narration that describes the action in movies, videos, TV, or live performance. A different narrator's voice is used to distinguish the action from the dialog. Audio description is used by people who are blind or who have low vision.
An audio description is either a prerecorded human voice or a synthesized voice that has either been prerecorded or is generated as the presentation plays. The audio description is synchronized with the audio track of the presentation, usually during natural pauses in the audio track. Audio descriptions include information about actions, body language, graphics, and scene changes.
Audio description refers to an additional narration track for blind and visually impaired viewers of visual media, including television and movies, dance, opera, and visual art. For simplicity, this article focuses on the most common venues for description: TV and film. The description narrator talks through the presentation, describing what is happening on the screen during the natural pauses in the audio (and sometimes during dialogue if deemed necessary).
