Audio Description

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Audio description (sometimes called video description) inserts narrated descriptions of a program's key visual elements into the existing pauses of its audio track in order to make television and digital media more accessible to EVERYONE, including:

those who are blind or visually impaired
those with learning differences
those with print disabilities
those in the process of learning English

In some cases, audio description can be inserted into existing pauses in a program’s dialogue. In others, sophisticated audio post production techniques are used to create sufficient space to insert the necessary descriptions.

Audio description takes maximum advantage of the Internet and other new media technology. Bridge Multimedia has developed EXTRA Info^TM, a unique online service designed to provide fully 508-compliant supplemental background information. This expanded information, with a particular emphasis on significant details, aims at heightening the overall appreciation and comprehension of a given program.

Learn more about Bridge Multimedia’s EXTRA Info^TM

Through emerging digital technology, additional audio channels will soon become available. This will allow a broadcaster to put a foreign language on one channel, audio description on another, and to introduce the exciting option of adding audio description in a foreign language tailored to a particular demographic on another channel.

Bridge Multimedia endeavors to provide quality audio description, accessible in several languages in all media formats, which addresses the diverse needs of entertainment, educational, commercial, and government programming.

VIEW A DEMONSTRATION OF ACCESSIBLE MEDIA

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