audio description

British  

noun

1. a facility provided for visually impaired people in which a film, television programme, or play is described through audio technology

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Example Sentences

Ospina spends most of the show just offstage, periodically speaking audio description that is anything but intrusive.

From New York Times

But he is joined onstage by Dickie Hearts, who performs the same tales in American Sign Language, and Alejandra Ospina, who provides audio description.

From New York Times

Movie goers who are blind or low vision can use audio description receivers at AMC and other theaters, which feed through headphones a description track of the movie created by the studio.

From Salon

I’ve spent four decades working with audio description, the spoken words used to make visual images accessible for people who are blind.

From Washington Post

Perhaps The Post can learn from audio description techniques.

From Washington Post