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Audio Description Services

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Expert Audio Description Services for Visually Impaired Individuals

Audio description services, also known as descriptive narration, provide spoken descriptions of visual elements in movies, television shows, live theater, museums, and other forms of media. These services are designed to enhance the viewing experience for individuals who are visually impaired or blind, allowing them to better understand and enjoy the visual elements of the content.

The Importance of Audio Description for Visually Impaired Individuals

Audio description for visually impaired individuals is an essential service that allows them to fully experience and understand visual media. This can include descriptions of the setting, costumes, body language, facial expressions, and other visual elements that might not be easily understood through dialogue alone. Audio description can also include descriptions of on-screen text, such as subtitles or credits. It is important to note that Audio description should not be confused with subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH) which is a transcription of the spoken dialogue, sound effects and non-dialogue information in a programme.

Growing Accessibility of Audio Description in Film

Audio description for movies is becoming more common in theaters and on home video releases. Many major movie studios now include audio description tracks on their DVD and Blu-ray releases, and some theaters are also equipped to provide audio description through wireless headsets. This allows individuals who are visually impaired or blind to enjoy the visual elements of the movie and experience it in a way that is similar to sighted individuals.

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Increasing Availability of Audio Description on Television

Audio description for television is also becoming more widely available. Many television networks now offer audio description on their programs through the secondary audio program (SAP) feature. This feature can be found in the audio settings of most televisions and allows individuals to turn on audio description for select programs. In addition, streaming services such as Netflix, Amazon Prime, and Disney+ offer audio description on many of their original shows and movies.

Expanding Access to Online Video Content with Audio Description

With the increasing popularity of online video content, audio description for online video has become more accessible. Many websites and platforms, such as YouTube, Vimeo, and TED, include audio description for their videos. This allows individuals who are visually impaired or blind to access a wide range of video content, including educational and informative videos, as well as entertainment.

Enabling Access and Understanding with Audio Description for Museums

Audio description for museums is an important service that allows individuals who are visually impaired or blind to fully experience and understand the exhibits. This can include descriptions of the artwork, artifacts, and other visual elements, as well as information about the history and context of the exhibit. Many museums now offer audio guides that include audio description, and some also have trained docents who can provide live audio description during tours.

Enhancing the Reading Experience with Audio Description for Audio Books

Audio description for audio books is a service that provides spoken descriptions of visual elements in the book, such as illustrations, maps, and photographs. This allows individuals who are visually impaired or blind to better understand and enjoy the book. Audio books are available in many libraries and online platforms.

Expanding Accessibility with Audio Description Services for Video Production

Audio description services for video production allow video creators to make their content more accessible to individuals who are visually impaired or blind. This can include adding audio description to movies, television shows, and other forms of video content, as well as providing audio description for online video content, such as webinars and e-learning modules. Audio description services for video production can be provided by specialized companies or freelancers who are trained in the art of audio description.

Audio Description Services for Video Production

Increasing Importance of Audio Description for Digital Content

Audio description for digital content is becoming increasingly important as more and more information is shared and consumed online. This can include adding audio description to websites, digital magazines, and other forms of digital content. Audio description for digital content can be provided by specialized companies.

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Our Core Values : Quality

At Vanan Captioning, our process goes through various quality checks to ensure supremacy in precision and accuracy. Our captioners are professionals who have a great hold over their work structure and analyse every step of the captioning process. We prefer to deliver 100% quality and timely delivery over anything else.

Related captioning services

Close captioning

The princess where a text version of the spoken words in the video are being displayed on screen is called Closed captioning. It is highly useful for those who have hearing impairement or are hard of hearing. It stipulates uninterrupted video watching for all kinds of people without any disturbance or discrepancy.

Broadcast captioning

Broadcast captioning is perhaps a real time captioning procedure where captioners work on the news text that have to be accurate for the readers. This is mostly done based on the language that is needed and to acquire the news without confusion.

Offline captioning

Offline captioning is basically when teh captioning work is done usually after an event or on pre recorded shows. Vanan Captioning is the exclusive provider of offline captioning for prerecorded programs. Our offline captioners are experienced in handling shows such as interview, speech, debate or discussion.

Open captioning

The process of capturing and displaying all sounds and words that are heard during a video is called open captioning. This is very similar to closed captionig. Open captioning although does not have the option of turning off the captions when not necessary.

Youtube captioning

Captions on YouTube videos generally help in ranking systems making your video visible to a lot more audience. The text on the video makes it accessible and increases your SEO chances of audience engagement even with people who are hard of hearing.

Video captioning

Video captioning helps in converting audio content of a video into a text and then synchronizes the text that is transcribed to the video. The text gets displayed in segmanets within a timely gap that aligns between words and the video. It helps many people who are unaware of the language in understanding better.

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File formats

Accepting and delivering in the file format of the customer’s choice is our top priority. Choose from any of our formats and get delivered accordingly.

  • .M4A
  • .SMI
  • .M4B
  • .QTSMIL
  • .M4A
  • .SMI
  • .M4B
  • .QTSMIL

Platforms we do

Since we concentrate on all platforms, our Captioning Services are also provided and available for customer use in the following major platforms, we also extend our service to other 50+ platforms. Chat with us to know more.

Significant languages we deliver

We trust that every customer needs to have access to the language of their choice. Vanan captioning supports 100+ languages such as Mandarin, Cantonese, Arabic, French and more where we work only with native captioners to give you the best language support possible.

Our Services Extend Further Than The Languages Mentioned Below

Spanish - English
Japanese - English
French - English
German - English
Arabic - English
Chinese - English

We extend our services to our clients in fulfilling requirements with our wide range of native translator community across languages.