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

Buggy cup-holder caption machines and ill-fitting glasses have long been the standard in movie theaters, which are required to provide captioning and audio description devices to moviegoers who need them.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 10, 2024

"I'm a tall, mixed race woman, I'm 28 years old, half-Swedish, half-Somali," host Maya Jama says in her audio description.

From BBC • Jun. 7, 2023

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 • Feb. 23, 2023

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 • Jan. 24, 2023

Perhaps The Post can learn from audio description techniques.

From Washington Post • Dec. 23, 2022