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Text-to-speech audio description. Towards wider availability of AD
JoSTrans: The Journal of Specialised Translation, 2011 This paper addresses the feasibility of text-to-speech audio description (TTS AD)1 and its reception among visually impaired people. First, a new method of producing AD to be read by speech synthesis software is proposed.
Agnieszka Szarkowska
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The impact of film audio description style on presence in Chinese visually impaired audiences [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyThis study investigates the impact of film audio description (AD) styles on dimensions of presence—spatial presence, engagement, ecological validity, and negative effects—among visually impaired audiences in China.
Hui Yang, Danni Xie, Yutao Li
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HermeneusDespite the existence of audio description (AD) in China from 2005, little is known about how AD is conducted in China due to the scarcity of studies on this subject.
Yuchen Liu
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Impacts on quality: Enjoyment factors in blind and low vision audience entertainment ratings: A qualitative study. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 Audio description (AD) is one of the main methods that people who are blind or low vision (B/LV) use to access film, television, and theatre content. AD is a second audio track inserted into the space(s) where speech is absent, which tends to be only a ...
Mala D Naraine +2 more
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Aspects of Visual Content Covered in the Audio Description of Arabic Series: A Corpus-assisted Study
Open Cultural Studies, 2023 People with visual impairment need a special form of audio-visual translation (AVT) to have access to multimedia products such as series and movies. Audio description (AD) is an AVT mode that describes what is happening in the images through words. It is
Darwish Noor +2 more
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Audio description and the translation of film language into words
Ilha do Desterro, 2020 In this paper, we approach audio description (AD) from a Translation Studies point of view. The two first parts are of theoretical interest: AD is defined as a part of the audiovisual text and as a form of intersemiotic translation.
Floriane Bardini
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Ecclesiastic Audio Description: The Church from a Semiotic and Translation Perspective
Ikala: Revista de Lenguaje y Cultura, 2023 Audio description (AD) is a type of accessible translation consisting of a process of intersemiotic translations from images into words. Its objective is, mainly, allowing people with visual disabilities to create a mental image of the things they ...
María Lax-López
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Revista Tradumàtica, 2021 The field of translation is undergoing various profound changes. On the one hand it is being thoroughly reshaped by the advent and constant improvement of new technologies. On the other hand, new forms of translation are starting to see the light of day
Gert Vercauteren +2 more
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A Review of Modern Audio Deepfake Detection Methods: Challenges and Future Directions
Algorithms, 2022 A number of AI-generated tools are used today to clone human voices, leading to a new technology known as Audio Deepfakes (ADs). Despite being introduced to enhance human lives as audiobooks, ADs have been used to disrupt public safety.
Zaynab Almutairi, Hebah Elgibreen
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Patrząc w przeszłość, patrząc w przyszłość – 10 lat audiodeskrypcji filmowej w Polsce
Między Oryginałem a Przekładem, 2018 Looking into the Past, Looking into the Future – 10 Years of Film Audio Description in Poland This article presents the history of the development of audio description (AD) in Poland and gives an overview of the state of the art ten years after the ...
Anna Jankowska
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