Audio Descriptions: Not just for the visually impaired

Twenty Thousand Hertz

Dallas Taylor

Music, Design, Arts, Music Commentary

4.8 • 4.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2017

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Did you know there might be a track of audio on your favorite movies and television shows that describe all of the actions on screen? This technology was designed for the visually impaired, but it could be used for the masses. It’s still not as widely provided as some would hope. Meet the consumers and activists fighting for a better-described tomorrow. Featuring Tommy Edison, Robert Kingett, and Colleen Connor. Twenty Thousand Hertz is hosted by Dallas Taylor and produced out of the studios of Defacto Sound. Consider supporting the show at donate.20k.org Episode transcript, music, and credits can be found here: https://www.20k.org/episodes/audio Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to 20,000 Hertz.
0:03.4	I'm Dallas Taylor.
0:05.2	Go.
0:19.6	Tommy Edison is a successful film critic,
0:21.6	but there's one famous movie he just couldn't get through.
0:29.6	Everybody, oh, you gotta see The Matrix.
0:31.6	It's the greatest movie in the world.
0:33.6	It's so great, blah, blah, blah, blah.
0:35.6	And I must have watched it a half a dozen times and got nowhere. Maybe 10, 12, 14 minutes in and that was it.
0:42.7	But Tommy's moviegoing experiences tend to be different than most.
0:47.3	I'm known on YouTube as the blind film critic.
0:53.0	That's right, Tommy is blind, and a well-known film critic on YouTube.
0:57.6	When he discovered audio description, everything changed.
1:00.8	Go.
1:01.7	In the corridor, one of the dark-suited agents steps out of an elevator.
1:05.0	Trinity takes off in the other direction.
1:08.7	She opens a door to a fire escape and spots another agent in the alley below.
1:13.6	Trinity leaps a 10-foot gap from one building to the next.
1:17.6	Behind her, the agent takes the leap in stride, followed by five cops.
1:21.6	One cop jumps short, lands on the building's ledge and pulls himself over.
1:30.3	Trinity sprints up and down peaked metal rooftops, keeping ahead of the agent and cops.
1:33.3	Trinity races across a rooftop and leaps off the edge.
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