In the back of the Boston Citizens Opera House, Laura Pailler prepares for a matinee of “Funny Girl,” the revival musical about an aspiring comedian and Broadway star. Pailler is here to provide audio ...

The Korean film Parasite is the first foreign language film to win an Oscar for Best Picture. But vision-impaired moviegoers here can't enjoy it because it's not available with audio description. The ...

Kathryn Locke is employed as a researcher on the Australian Research Council's discovery grant, "Diversifying audio description in the Australian digital landscape". Tama Leaver receives funding from ...

Voice actors have the power to transport audiences to other worlds. A particularly meaningful type of voice acting—audio description or description narration—is vital to making television, movies, ...

Science & Technology Research Laboratories (STRL) is conducting research on information accessibility and its technologies to realize a broadcast media where everyone can access the information they ...

This year, Global Accessibility Awareness Day falls on May 19. And Netflix is using the occasion to announce major plans to expand the global translations of its audio descriptions and subtitles for ...

An expanded audio-descriptive commentary service will be available throughout UEFA EURO 2024, bringing blind and partially sighted fans around the world closer to the action in Germany. Blind and ...

Since the recent explosion of widely available generative artificial intelligence (AI), it now seems that a new AI tool emerges every week. With varying success, AI offers solutions for productivity, ...