Audio Description
Audio description is an additional commentary that describes what is happening on the screen or the stage for people who have difficulty seeing the action, body language, facial expressions, costume or scenery.
Royal National Institute of the Blind - London, UK
Starfish offers end-to-end solutions for audio description, from single stand-alone authoring workstations through to managed workflow solutions for broadcasters who wish to implement automated audio description transmission.
We have been involved with the development of audio-description technology since 1999 and are currently finalising a project to enhance the audio-description workflow at Red Bee Media in London, UK. Red Bee is the provider of BBC transmission facilities in London.
Audio description (AD) is also known as descriptive video, described video or video description.
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