Audible Sight

Today at Audible Sight, we are pausing to reflect on the life of Brandon Cole, who has passed away from illness in the prime of life. Brandon was an awesome human being who dedicated himself to making the world a fairer place for those most marginalized in our society. In particular, he was an enthusiastic and effective influencer in the field of video gaming. He introduced me to the concept of blind people gaming (why not?) Brandon worked with industry-leaders to build fair and inclusive pathways into technology. He reached out to me - as Superblindman - to cheer me on in my quest to make millions of videos accessible for the 285 million visually impaired people around the world. He said he was "delighted" to help me. That he did. I am better off for having met him. Peace to Brandon's family and friends.

Exciting news! Huge congratulations to the Audible Sight dev team. We're thrilled to announce the release of the most advanced and elegant DIY audio description tool available anywhere. This game-changing update to our technology is the ultimate solution for making video content accessible for visually impaired individuals, akin to what closed captioning does for the deaf community. Our new release is a magnum opus. As the pioneers of DIY audio description technology, we know the bar has now been raised to new heights! Whether you're a returning user or new to Audible Sight, now is the perfect time to experience our stunning new features:  https://lnkd.in/e-Q_m4Gf Try it for free. Create up to 10 minutes of audio-described video at no charge. No credit card, video editing skills, or technical expertise required. There are two forms of audio description. Extended audio description adds brief splices of video where the audio description gets inserted. The resulting audio described video is slightly longer. This type of audio description is perfect for most information, government, and education videos. Here's an example, created using Audible Sight: https://lnkd.in/e_r8SmeW Standard audio description makes use of the silent gaps in the audio where there is no dialogue in the original video, keeping the video length unchanged. This type of audio description is perfect for movies and TV shows. You can see it on Netflix and Amazon Prime Video and other streaming services. Look for the audio description option where you choose the play settings such as closed captioning. Here's an example, created using Audible Sight: https://lnkd.in/eEfnGben Our new release lets you choose between Extended, Standard, or a hybrid of both. You can easily drag and drop the audio descriptions where needed. Or let our AI-enabled engine automatically place the descriptions exactly where they belong. If the description says, "a black dog is running in a field", our technology automatically places that description precisely where there's a black dog running in a field. It prevents overtalking of any dialogue in the original video. You can use a simple text editor to edit the descriptions. Maybe you want to change it to say "a black puppy is running in a field of tall grass". A lifelike synthetic voice immediately changes the audio description to match your edits. You have your choice of 65 different voices (we don't use any robot-sounding voices). For the sake of 285 million blind and visually impaired people, make all your videos accessible by adding audio descriptions. Video accessibility is essential for full inclusion in our society, in education, government communications, and information of all kinds. Start now—it's easy, fast, and affordable. Let's make the world more accessible.

A newly issued federal rule to ensure web content is accessible for people with disabilities requires public K-12 and higher education institutions to do a thorough inventory of their digital materials to make sure they are in compliance, accessibility experts said. This article explains it: https://lnkd.in/eGNNaWzR

Audible Sight is honored to have been selected as a semi-finalist for the Milken-Penn GSE Education Business Plan Competition. The fit couldn't be better. Considered the most prestigious and well-funded competition of its kind, the Milken-Penn GSE Education Business Plan Competition celebrates and nurtures purpose-driven ventures that seek to address systemic inequities in education through innovation. Since 2010, it has awarded more than $2 million in cash prizes. There were a record-breaking number of applicants from 41 countries this year. Finalists will present in New York in September. Congratulations to the other semifinalists, all of whom are impressive innovators dedicated to doing amazing things to advance education for everyone. See the full list here: https://lnkd.in/gqmjp-2B

Audible Sight is honored to have been selected as the exclusive provider of audio description for the BlindCAN film festival. The festival took place in Tallahassee, Florida on April 6. This is an annual film festival for blind film directors. We created audio descriptions for their information/promotion videos, short videos, and long form films. Audio description is for blind people what captioning is for hearing-impaired persons. Without audio description, visually impaired persons are shut out. We salute Ben Fox, the founder of the blindCAN Film Festival, and the entire BlindCAN Film Festival team for their unwavering dedication to empowerment and inclusivity. Together we are illuminating the path towards a future where every voice is heard and every story is told. And 20 million more Americans can join the rest of us in accessing the universe of video content. According to Fox, "Audible Sight was able to create accurate and wonderful audio description for the BlindCAN Film Festival, quickly and better than anyone else. The blind community was able to enjoy their movie experience with open audio description with their sighted friends and their family hearing it too. This was possible thanks to Audible Sight." Audible Sight reduces audio description worktime to a fraction. We invented this technology because there's a moral imperative to solve this vexing social dilemma: millions of Americans are blocked from accessing videos. Access to video content is not just a convenience but a necessity for inclusion. Congratulations to this year's short firm film award winner, Alayna Lopez. https://lnkd.in/edqmE8SX Ben Fox is a blind film director. He lost his eyesight to retinitis pigmentosa at 18 years old. Prior to that, Ben was accepted to the prestigious Sundance Film Festival. Since his diagnosis, Ben has rechanneled his energy, becoming a pioneer in the field of innovative approaches to helping visually impaired people to share their stories through art. #AudibleSight #InnovationForAll #BlindCANFilmFestival  

How wonderful to see audio described chickens! Why? Because every video should be accessible!

Hello friends, I just wanted to share this wonderful New tool that can automatically generate audio description for your own video content. For those who don’t know what audio description is here is a short explanation. Audio description, also known as video description or described video, is an additional audio track that provides narration of visual elements during pauses in dialogue. It's primarily designed to make television shows, movies, live performances, and other visual media accessible to individuals who are blind or visually impaired. The narrator describes key visual elements such as actions, settings, facial expressions, and scene changes, enabling people with visual impairments to fully understand and enjoy the content. #Inclusion #AudioDescription #AccessibleContent https://lnkd.in/gtjWXu36 Audio Description Project of the American Council of the Blind Audible Sight

Access delayed is access denied. The unfortunate pattern for posting video content goes like this: An organization posts their informational video on YouTube, their website, and a couple social media platforms. The video is not accessible to people who are blind or have low vision. There's no audio description available for the video. (Audio description is to people who are visually impaired what captioning is to people who are hearing impaired.) More often than not, the video is never made accessible. In a small minority of cases, an audio-described version of the video is created. But that's typically weeks or months later. Even when content is made accessible, it's delayed. Delaying the accessible content is not equitable. Visually impaired people should not have to wait. This is no longer just about cute cat videos. Video has become the dominant modality for learning, exploration, business communication, and expression. So access to video content is not just a convenience. It’s a necessity for full inclusion in our society. When covid came into public awareness in January 2020, that's when 8 million Americans with visual impairments should have had access to the same video content about covid that fully sighted people had access to. Not 3 or 4 months later. Timeliness matters. I have spoken with leaders at many organizations who curate videos. These are dedicated people who have a conscience and care. They are posting video content later not because it's an "afterthought". The problem lies in the labor-intensive and technically challenging methods used for adding audio description. Those methods require people skilled in scripting, voicing, and video editing. Despite best intentions, it's impossible for these organizations to scale their efforts anywhere near what it would take to meet the exploding demand for audio-described video content. Until now. That's why we invented technology that (a) reduces the time to create audio description from hours to minutes, and (b) democratizes the process so anyone can add audio description. It's called Audible Sight. No technical skills are required. You don't need video editing skills or voiceover skills. It's easy and inexpensive. Try it out at no cost at app.audiblesight.ai This 2-minute video shows how it works: https://lnkd.in/eptXRR_f Kudos to the early adopters, the leaders who recognize the social significance of this and are now posting accessible videos simultaneously with their non-accessible video. That's the gold standard. Kudos too to those organizations who are now adding audio-described videos en masse to their backlog of videos that had previously been inaccessible. All now made possible by Audible Sight.

Access delayed is access denied. The unfortunate pattern for posting video content goes like this: An organization posts their informational video on YouTube, their website, and a couple social media platforms. The video is not accessible to people who are blind or have low vision. There's no audio description available for the video. (Audio description is to people who are visually impaired what captioning is to people who are hearing impaired.) More often than not, the video is never made accessible. In a small minority of cases, an audio-described version of the video is created. But that's typically weeks or months later. Even when content is made accessible, it's delayed. Delaying the accessible content is not equitable. Visually impaired people should not have to wait. This is no longer just about cute cat videos. Video has become the dominant modality for learning, exploration, business communication, and expression. So access to video content is not just a convenience. It’s a necessity for full inclusion in our society. When covid came into public awareness in January 2020, that's when 8 million Americans with visual impairments should have had access to the same video content about covid that fully sighted people had access to. Not 3 or 4 months later. Timeliness matters. I have spoken with leaders at many organizations who curate videos. These are dedicated people who have a conscience and care. They are posting video content later not because it's an "afterthought". The problem lies in the labor-intensive and technically challenging methods used for adding audio description. Those methods require people skilled in scripting, voicing, and video editing. Despite best intentions, it's impossible for these organizations to scale their efforts anywhere near what it would take to meet the exploding demand for audio-described video content. Until now. That's why we invented technology that (a) reduces the time to create audio description from hours to minutes, and (b) democratizes the process so anyone can add audio description. It's called Audible Sight. No technical skills are required. You don't need video editing skills or voiceover skills. It's easy and inexpensive. Try it out at no cost at app.audiblesight.ai This 2-minute video shows how it works: https://lnkd.in/eptXRR_f Kudos to the early adopters, the leaders who recognize the social significance of this and are now posting accessible videos simultaneously with their non-accessible video. That's the gold standard. Kudos too to those organizations who are now adding audio-described videos en masse to their backlog of videos that had previously been inaccessible. All now made possible by Audible Sight.

Great testimonial from the #CSUNAT2024 floor. Thanks for making the world more accessible one video at a time with Audible Sight!