Thread Subject: Re: text transcripts for video-descriptions

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From: Tom Brett
Date: Fri, Aug 03 2007 8:50 AM

Even though I am not blind I have experienced a similar problem when
participating in the Subcommittee meetings....

In order for me to fully participate I must follow the captions so whenever
the moderator says go look at the WIKI for this or that I am lost I can't
be two places at once.

Tom Brett


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Sent: Friday, August 03, 2007 10:41 AM
To: TEITAC Audio/Video Subcommittee
Subject: Re: [teitac-video] text transcripts for video-descriptions

I really agree with Alan on this. Reading and listening are two discrete
activities. I rarely think text transcripts as a replacement for description

have any value. First of all, fairly rew people read Braille at a level to
keep up with the audio. I do, but it's really like having two events.
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Sent: Friday, August 03, 2007 7:36 AM
Subject: Re: [teitac-video] text transcripts for video-descriptions


Allen Hoffman wrote:
> As someone who is totally blind, reading a text-transcript
> and then accessing the "video" makes me review it twice.
> Audio description allows single use for me. I, for one, have
> real difficulty reading Braille, or listening to the
> text-to-speech of a transcript wile also listening to the
> audio of a a/v product simultaneously.

Allen -- you raise an interesting point. If a transcript -- actually
a complete and true script of the video, with all speakers identified --
also included the kind of information used in audio description, would
that be an optimal solution? It would allow better hunting and
skipping. I'm just asking.

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