English With Kirsty

I wanted to give some more time to the topic of audio description so that we can explore it, both as an important way to make films, series, and live events accesible to visually impaired people, and as a new area of work for language professionals to explore.I got together with a group of language professionals from my network with different types of experience, different working languages (English, German, Italian, and Spanish), to talk about both the role of the audio description script writer and the voice artist.During our discussion, we covered topics such as: The guests’ stories and how they became involved with audio description The process of creating scrips and recording the voice-over tracks Challenges and points to consider when thinking about creating content in different languages Different types of information that the audience needs, depending on the type of content Training available for those interested in this kind of work The interaction between scrip writers, voice-over artists, and end u