audio description

See also: audiodescription and audio-description

English

Alternative forms

• audiodescription, audio-description

Noun

audio description (plural audio descriptions)

1. An audio track on a video recording, timed to the footage of a film, that typically consists of a narrator describing what is happening in the film being shown.

Synonyms

• video description
• AD

Coordinate terms

• described video

Derived terms

• AD

Related terms

• described audio

Translations

Translations

• Dutch: audiodescriptie (nl) f
• Finnish: kuvailutulkkaus
• French: vidéodescription f, audiodescription (fr) f
• Italian: audiodescrizione f
• Polish: audiodeskrypcja f
• Portuguese: audiodescrição (pt) f
• Spanish: audiodescripción f

See also

• ST / subtitle / subtitling
• CC / closed caption / closed captioning