audio description

See also: audiodescription and audio-description

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audio description

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Alternative forms

• audiodescription, audio-description

Noun

audio description (countable and uncountable, plural audio descriptions)

1. An audio track on a video recording, timed to the footage of a film, that typically consists of a narrator describing what is happening in the film being shown.

   Synonyms: AD, video description

   Coordinate term: described video

2. The process of making such tracks.

Derived terms

• AD

Related terms

• described audio

Translations

Translations

Dutch: audiodescriptie (nl) f Finnish: kuvailutulkkaus French: vidéodescription f, audiodescription (fr) f Italian: audiodescrizione f Polish: audiodeskrypcja (pl) f Portuguese: audiodescrição (pt) f Spanish: audiodescripción f

See also

• ST / subtitle / subtitling
• CC / closed caption / closed captioning