Literature Reviews

Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.

• Are Synthesized Video Descriptions Acceptable?

  Masatomo Kobayashi, Trisha O'Connell, Bryan Gould, Hironobu Takagi, Chieko Asakawa (2010) — Proceedings of the 12th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2010)

  This paper from IBM Research Tokyo and WGBH National Center for Accessible Media investigates whether text-to-speech (TTS) synthesised narrations are an acceptable alternative to human-narrated audio descriptions for online videos. While accessibilit…

  • audio description
  • video accessibility
  • text-to-speech
  • speech synthesis
  • web accessibility
  • blind and low vision
  • online video
  • extended description