Abstract
Audio description (AD) is an audiovisual translation technique targeted to visually impaired people enabling them the full access of visual content. This technique can be applied in several contexts, as is the case of Television, where a professional storyteller describes the visual scenes not perceptible by viewers with blindness and low vision, based on a pre-produced script made by a screenwriter. In this way, the production of AD is a costly and complex process, involving different professionals and procedures. Besides that, many countries, like Portugal, do not respect the minimum obligations mandated by the law related to the use of audio description in television programs. Despite this scenario, the current television eco-system provides possibilities to enhance this technique, leveraging the number of audio described TV content for people with visual impairment. In order to change this situation, we intend to develop a platform that supports AD production for television programs based on a voluntary model.
In this context, the paper aims to describe the platform, pointing out its functional requirements from a comparative study between the professional process of AD production and the voluntary approach to be developed.
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Authors are grateful to FCT and FSE for the financial support to this research (ref. SFRH/BPD/112129/2015) under the 3rd European community support framework.
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Oliveira, R., de Abreu, J.F., Almeida, A.M. (2018). Audio Description of Television Programs: A Voluntary Production Approach. In: Abásolo, M., Abreu, J., Almeida, P., Silva, T. (eds) Applications and Usability of Interactive Television. jAUTI 2017. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 813. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90170-1_11
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