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Food for Thought: Clearing up Confusion between Audio Description and Amplified Audio

Mich Verrier
 

Hi Sadly  this app is not in the Canadian App Store.


On Aug 1, 2022, at 2:22 PM, Robert Kingett <weirdauthor@...> wrote:



I'd recommend Spectrum Access, see the below link for all the information.

In addition, I've started advocating for open audio description screenings, much like we have open captions. The spectrum Access link is below, check it out!

https://adp.acb.org/spectrumad.html
Robert Kingett
 

I'd recommend Spectrum Access, see the below link for all the information.

In addition, I've started advocating for open audio description screenings, much like we have open captions. The spectrum Access link is below, check it out!

https://adp.acb.org/spectrumad.html
Carl Richardson
 

It is not that they are not up to date, it is more to do with the fact that they are unable to obtain licensing for theatrical releases in their apps.

 

From: ADP-List@... [mailto:ADP-List@...] On Behalf Of Kathy Blackburn
Sent: Sunday, July 31, 2022 10:08 PM
To: ADP-List@...
Subject: Re: [ADP-List] Food for Thought: Clearing up Confusion between Audio Description and Amplified Audio

 

Just FYI: I just checked the Spectrum Access app for their "Only in Theaters" category. They are not really up-to-date with what's in the theaters. For example, they don't have "Elvis", "Where the Crawdads Sing" or "Nope."

Kathy Blackburn
kblackbn@...

On Jul 31, 2022 8:50 PM, Tina Hansen <th404@...> wrote:

I want to get us thinking about something that still comes up from time to time. It seems that people still are a bit confused when you ask for audio description at the movie theater and you get amplified audio instead.

 

This is one reason I’ve been a fan of a cloud-based audio description track library. Yet more and more, I’m beginning to see that solution alone isn’t enough. As of now, I see it as a stop gap, and the best way to at least ensure that if you know a film has audio description, you can grab it and take it with you.

 

But I digress. How can we guide staff in movie theaters to ensure that when you do go, you get what you need? Is there a need for some kind of logo that distinguishes audio description from amplified audio?

 

This, by the way, is also why I’ve been a big fan of being able to access AD with your own smart phone. Actiview started this out with their synching technology, which Spectrum Access picked up. I’m not sure if Spectrum Access stays up to date with new movies coming into the theater, but if it does, this could be a solution, but I’m not sure. I also would love the ability to use your smart phone along with a bone conduction headset so you’re not in your own world and feeling isolated from everyone else.

 

So do any of you have suggestions on how to approach movie theaters? They also need to realize the need for audio description and for the equipment to work. Any thoughts? Thanks.

 

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Kathy Blackburn
 

Just FYI: I just checked the Spectrum Access app for their "Only in Theaters" category. They are not really up-to-date with what's in the theaters. For example, they don't have "Elvis", "Where the Crawdads Sing" or "Nope."

Kathy Blackburn
kblackbn@...

On Jul 31, 2022 8:50 PM, Tina Hansen <th404@...> wrote:

I want to get us thinking about something that still comes up from time to time. It seems that people still are a bit confused when you ask for audio description at the movie theater and you get amplified audio instead.

 

This is one reason I’ve been a fan of a cloud-based audio description track library. Yet more and more, I’m beginning to see that solution alone isn’t enough. As of now, I see it as a stop gap, and the best way to at least ensure that if you know a film has audio description, you can grab it and take it with you.

 

But I digress. How can we guide staff in movie theaters to ensure that when you do go, you get what you need? Is there a need for some kind of logo that distinguishes audio description from amplified audio?

 

This, by the way, is also why I’ve been a big fan of being able to access AD with your own smart phone. Actiview started this out with their synching technology, which Spectrum Access picked up. I’m not sure if Spectrum Access stays up to date with new movies coming into the theater, but if it does, this could be a solution, but I’m not sure. I also would love the ability to use your smart phone along with a bone conduction headset so you’re not in your own world and feeling isolated from everyone else.

 

So do any of you have suggestions on how to approach movie theaters? They also need to realize the need for audio description and for the equipment to work. Any thoughts? Thanks.
Mich Verrier
 

Hi Tina and all. Tina I thought that there was a logo that they could use that logo was the DVS Logo is that no longer being used to distinguish AD from in hanced audio? I thought that the DVS Logo was the d with the lines coming off of it like sound waves or something like that. I also agree that there should be some sort of a app that should be developed that would sink the audio of a film up with the description track. I know that the movie reading app did this but I only know of a few films that they described for home use those being Philomena and Eye in The Sky. I know of no apps apart from that one that would offer this. Now I am in Ontario Canada and am not in the US and at least hear in Canada I know of no apps that you can use like the movie reading app that will describe a movie and you could bring it into your Theatre and have it describe the movie wile it is playing. Since my Theatre doesn’t have AD yet on any of it’s screens how ever I am hoping to see this change see my message I sent to the list earlier today about updateing the list on the efferts on getting the owner to install headsets that will broadcast AD Tracks. How ever I agree some sort of a app that would sink with the film as it is being shown would be really good and the abillidey as you said of downloading the AD Track before you go and then having your ear buds and smart phone and starting the film when it is playing and having the AD Track sink up with it would be the ideal situation for Shure. From Mich Verrier from New Liskeard Ontario Canada.

 

From: ADP-List@... <ADP-List@...> On Behalf Of Tina Hansen
Sent: July 31, 2022 9:50 PM
To: ADP-List@...
Subject: [ADP-List] Food for Thought: Clearing up Confusion between Audio Description and Amplified Audio

 

I want to get us thinking about something that still comes up from time to time. It seems that people still are a bit confused when you ask for audio description at the movie theater and you get amplified audio instead.

 

This is one reason I’ve been a fan of a cloud-based audio description track library. Yet more and more, I’m beginning to see that solution alone isn’t enough. As of now, I see it as a stop gap, and the best way to at least ensure that if you know a film has audio description, you can grab it and take it with you.

 

But I digress. How can we guide staff in movie theaters to ensure that when you do go, you get what you need? Is there a need for some kind of logo that distinguishes audio description from amplified audio?

 

This, by the way, is also why I’ve been a big fan of being able to access AD with your own smart phone. Actiview started this out with their synching technology, which Spectrum Access picked up. I’m not sure if Spectrum Access stays up to date with new movies coming into the theater, but if it does, this could be a solution, but I’m not sure. I also would love the ability to use your smart phone along with a bone conduction headset so you’re not in your own world and feeling isolated from everyone else.

 

So do any of you have suggestions on how to approach movie theaters? They also need to realize the need for audio description and for the equipment to work. Any thoughts? Thanks.
Tina Hansen
 

I want to get us thinking about something that still comes up from time to time. It seems that people still are a bit confused when you ask for audio description at the movie theater and you get amplified audio instead.

 

This is one reason I’ve been a fan of a cloud-based audio description track library. Yet more and more, I’m beginning to see that solution alone isn’t enough. As of now, I see it as a stop gap, and the best way to at least ensure that if you know a film has audio description, you can grab it and take it with you.

 

But I digress. How can we guide staff in movie theaters to ensure that when you do go, you get what you need? Is there a need for some kind of logo that distinguishes audio description from amplified audio?

 

This, by the way, is also why I’ve been a big fan of being able to access AD with your own smart phone. Actiview started this out with their synching technology, which Spectrum Access picked up. I’m not sure if Spectrum Access stays up to date with new movies coming into the theater, but if it does, this could be a solution, but I’m not sure. I also would love the ability to use your smart phone along with a bone conduction headset so you’re not in your own world and feeling isolated from everyone else.

 

So do any of you have suggestions on how to approach movie theaters? They also need to realize the need for audio description and for the equipment to work. Any thoughts? Thanks.

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