[Athen] Making Foreign Films Accessible

[Gaeir Dietrich]

Audio description would not repeat the dialogue, but any text that appears on the screen and is meant to be read should be included in the audio description…and the subtitles would fall into that category.

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From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces at mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Rasul, Kamran
Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2017 1:25 PM
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Subject: Re: [Athen] Making Foreign Films Accessible

 

I am not sure if audio description would accomplish this since this feature only narrates actions and physical, expressions and events of the characters and objects. I might be wrong, but it will not narrate what is actually being spoken.

 

Source: <https://venturebeat.com/2015/04/14/netflix-rolls-out-narration-feature-that-describes-whats-happening-on-screen-for-the-visually-impaired/>  Netflix’s new narration feature describes what’s happening for the visually impaired

 

Here is another resource I found which may accomplish what you are seeking…

 

“Okay, I hope I remember this correctly... on my old laptop once I was watching a Japanese Anime movie with English subtitles using KMPlayer ( <http://www.kmpmedia.net/> http://www.kmpmedia.net/) and in the application settings I was able to turn on Read Subtitles Out Loud. I had some AT&T voices installed and the media player voiced the sub-titles natively over the film dialog without any third-party TTS software. I am nearly 100% sure it was KMP although at the time I was also sometimes using VLC player ( <http://www.videolan.org/> http://www.videolan.org/) for movies. Both of these media players are freeware. I liked KMP because it came with all the esoteric codex for different video formats built-in. My vision has further deteriorated so I don't have either software installed on my new larger screened laptop to check this out for you but I am pretty certain of my recollection.”

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Source: http://nextup.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3142 

 

Lastly and might work (fingers crossed). Keep in mind, I haven’t tried it myself…

 

“A free and open-source tool that reads movie subtitles aloud”

 

Source: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2392856 

 

Kamran Rasul, M.Ed

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From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces at mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Rovner, Amy
Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2017 11:50 AM
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3Play Media has a newly launched Audio Description service.  I’m afraid I don’t know any more about it – such as cost, quality, etc. but if you have funding this might be the fastest way to accommodate the student.

 

Best,

Amy

 

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From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces at mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Gaeir Dietrich
Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2017 11:10 AM
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No magic, but honestly sometimes the easy button is someone sitting next to the student reading subtitles and providing audio description. 

 

You might check the video description web site hosted by Smith Kettlewell:

http://www.vdrdc.org/resources

 

Unfortunately, I believe the YouDescribe tool might still be down.

Gaeir 



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On Jul 11, 2017, at 10:59 AM, Jennifer McDowell <jmcdowell at salemstate.edu> wrote:

Hello everyone! 

 

We have a student who is blind taking a French Cinema class this coming fall semester. We just received the video list from the professor and have been looking them up to see what we are looking at as far as accessibility goes. Clearly, the outlook is bleak. ;) There are 11 films total, all are in French with English subtitles available. Two are available dubbed in English, and one, by Sony, MAY have AD, but probably not. ;)

 

Our office is working with the student and professor, trying to brainstorm the best way to provide access to the student. I have reached out to all of the US production companies to see if they have anything (transcripts, dubbing, AD) available. We are also leaning toward making MP3 recordings of us reading the subtitles that the student can listen to [more or less] in time while the class is watching the movie. 

 

Does anyone else have any ideas? Or have you had a similar situation and had success with a certain method? Any magic software I don’t know about that will do all of this for me? ;)

 

Honestly, any thoughts, ideas, suggestions, etc. would be MUCH appreciated. Thank you!

 

Jenny

 

 

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