The UAB promotes the audio describer as a new professional figure
The University will collaborate, through its TransMedia Catalonia research group and as part of the European project ADLAB PRO, in preparing flexible and free-source didactic materials aimed at training experts in audio description for the blind and visually impaired community.
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Based on the results attained previously, it marks an important step forward. The aim this time is to create free-access, flexible, didactic materials of a modular and personalisable nature, for the creation of an extremely important yet little known professional figure with a key role in the field of media accessibility: the audio describer.
The audio describer is an audiovisual translator charged with producing verbal descriptions for the blind community, descriptions which recount the visual features of a work of art or an audiovisual product (a film, a museum, a dance, a sporting event or a religious ceremony, etc.). The new project falls within the programme Erasmus +, Key Actions 2 – Strategic Partnerships. Again, the University of Trieste has the coordinating role with a budget of € 449,995 and consisting of 8 partners from 7 European countries belonging to: academia (University of Trieste, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Universiteit Antwerpen, Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu), the professional world (Utopian Voices Ltd., Radiotelevizija Slovenija Javni Zavod Ljubljana, Soundfocus) and the user association Royal National Institute of the Blind.
UAB participates in the project through its TransMedia Catalonia research group (Department of Translation and Interpreting and East Asian Studies), which continues its research line on media accessibility. TransMedia Catalonia currently leads the ACT project (PI: Pilar Orero) and participates in the ADLAB PRO project (PI at UAB: Anna Matamala).