Provide audio descriptions of objects in local area (within a selective perception / "virtual horizon")
This feature aids users by providing them with audio descriptions of content that is available in the surrounding area(within a selective perception)
Discussion by Disabilities
This feature aids the blind people by providing audio descriptions of content that is available in the surrounding area(within a selective perception)
This feature aids people with low vision by providing audio descriptions of content that is available in the surrounding area(within a selective perception)
This feature helps people with Cognitive, Language and Learning Disability to understand content through audio descriptions
Existing Products
- Audio Description Project(link is external)- American Council of the blind
- Audio Descriptio/ Interpretation(link is external)- Ai-Media
- Audio Description(link is external)- Starfish Technologies
- Audio/Video Description(link is external)- Vitac
- Apple Guidelines on Audio Description(link is external)
Related Research and Papers
- System and method for recording and playing audio descriptions(link is external)- Kenneth I. Rokoff, John R. Ramsay, J. Christopher Wiseman, Timothy M. Price
- Introduction to MPEG-7: Multimedia Content Description Interface(link is external)- B. S. Manjunath, Philippe Salembier, Thomas Sikora
- An overview of audio information retrieval(link is external)- Jonathan Foote
- Text-to-speech vs. human voiced audio descriptions: a reception study in films dubbed into Catalan(link is external)- Anna Fernández-Torné, Anna Matamala
- Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 (link is external)
- Increased Content Knowledge of Students with Visual Impairments as a Result of Extended Descriptions(link is external)- Richard Ely, Robert Wall Emerson, Theresa Maggiore
- Revisiting the visit:: understanding how technology can shape the museum visit(link is external)- Rebecca E. Grinter, Paul M. Aoki, Margaret H. Szymanski, James D. Thornton, Allison Woodruff, Amy Hurst
- Audio description: The visual made verbal(link is external)- Joel Snyder