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Rhymed and traditional audio description according to the blind and partially sighted audience: Results of a pilot study on creative audio description

JoSTrans: The Journal of Specialised Translation, 2018
The study described in this article is based on rhymed and traditional AD prepared for the animated film Boundin’ (Pixar, 2003). The cartoon with two kinds of AD was presented to blind audiences, both children and adults.
Monika Zabrocka
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Vibrotactile Perception of Consonant and Dissonant Musical Intervals

Applied Sciences
In recent years, with the development of haptic technologies, the investigation of the potential of vibrotactile perception of musical parameters has attracted much interest.
Alvaro Garcia Lopez, Jose Luis Lopez-Cuadrado, Israel Gonzalez-Carrasco, Maria Natividad Carrero de las Peñas, Maria Jose Lucia Mulas, Belen Ruiz Mezcua   +5 more
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Transmettre aux aveugles le comique d’une production multimédia. Étude d’un cas

Studia Romanica Posnaniensia, 2021
In this paper the author demonstrates the limits of audio description in the transfer of the humorous effects of a film comedy which constitute the “semantic dominant” of this kind of production.
Teresa Tomaszkiewicz
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Associating characters with events in films [PDF]

, 2007
The work presented here combines the analysis of a film's audiovisual features with the analysis of an accompanying audio description. Specifically, we describe a technique for semantic-based indexing of feature films that associates character names with
Lehane, Bart, O'Connor, Noel E., Salway, Andrew   +2 more
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Audio Description in Early Education

Anglica. An International Journal of English Studies
Abstract Audio description (AD) uses precise and succinct language to describe media and other audio-visual productions and events, including but not limited to plays, performances, and museum exhibitions.
Joel Snyder, Wendy Sapp
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Staging the Audio Describer: An Exploration of Integrated Audio Description

Disability Studies Quarterly, 2018
This article explores the phenomenon of integrated audio description (AD) and the ways in which access provision for blind people can be embedded into the creative process.
Louise Fryer
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Beat histogram features for rhythm-based musical genre classification using multiple novelty functions [PDF]

, 2015
In this paper we present beat histogram features for multiple level rhythm description and evaluate them in a musical genre classification task. Audio features pertaining to various musical content categories and their related novelty functions are ...
Lerch, Alexander, Lykartsis, Athanasios
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Movie Description [PDF]

, 2016
Audio Description (AD) provides linguistic descriptions of movies and allows visually impaired people to follow a movie along with their peers. Such descriptions are by design mainly visual and thus naturally form an interesting data source for computer ...
Courville, Aaron, Larochelle, Hugo, Pal, Christopher, Rohrbach, Anna, Rohrbach, Marcus, Schiele, Bernt, Tandon, Niket, Torabi, Atousa   +7 more
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Audio Description Technology: Enhancing Communication of Culture-Bound Elements in Films [PDF]

Journal of Business, Communication and Technology
Audio description (AD) technology, as a means of audiovisual translation (AVT), provides media accessibility (MA) for blind and partially sighted audiences.
Ghazaaleh Homayouni, Masood Khoshsaligheh   +1 more
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Subtitulado, videosignado y audiodescripción en la España televisiva actual [PDF]

, 2014
The Broadcasting Act 2010, and subsequent amendments, was designed to facilitate disabled the access to the national audiovisual landscape. Through clearly defined quotas, Spanish mass media are required -among others- to subtitle for people with hearing
Álvarez Álvarez, Mª de las Nieves
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