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Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2019 09:11:40 +0000
From: Jennifer Skinner <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Audio-description settings for YouTube
Dear Colleagues,
I hope that you are able to help.
I am a librarian needing to source an audio-described version of a video on YouTube for a taught Masters course (particularly for a visually impaired user). I see that there is a transcript, but cannot find any further options to switch on audio-description. The video in question is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9jMXp64VbE&list=PLYm1OKBSraXMnDPl0qwn4WNxw2lLgW-5q&index=2&t=0s Serengeti: Unnatural Histories, BBC4, 2015.
Any advice would be most appreciated!
All the best,
Jenni Skinner
Library Manager
African Studies Library
01223 (3)34398
Centre of African Studies, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.
Website: http://www.library.african.cam.ac.uk/
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Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2019 10:40:36 +0100
From: James Scholes <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Audio-description settings for YouTube
Hi Jennifer,
YouTube does not directly support audio description, as it has no
facilities for multiple audio tracks. If there is a described version
of this content available, it will have been uploaded as a separate video.
Have you been told that this video should have audio description? It
doesn't seem to have been uploaded by an official publisher account, and
audio description tracks are an expensive asset which must be scripted
and recorded by a human (at a rate of at least £7 per minute).
In terms of captions, YouTube does have a go at generating these
automatically using machine learning, but it's worth noting that they
can never be considered a replacement for true captions written by a
professional transcriptionist. Automatic audio description isn't
possible at all.
Regards,
James Scholes, Digital Accessibility Engineer
On 10/10/2019 at 10:11 am, Jennifer Skinner wrote:
> Dear Colleagues,
>
> I hope that you are able to help.
>
> I am a librarian needing to source an audio-described version of a video on YouTube for a taught Masters course (particularly for a visually impaired user). I see that there is a transcript, but cannot find any further options to switch on audio-description. The video in question is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9jMXp64VbE&list=PLYm1OKBSraXMnDPl0qwn4WNxw2lLgW-5q&index=2&t=0s Serengeti: Unnatural Histories, BBC4, 2015.
>
> Any advice would be most appreciated!
>
> All the best,
>
>
> Jenni Skinner
> Library Manager
> African Studies Library
> 01223 (3)34398
>
> Centre of African Studies, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.
> Website: http://www.library.african.cam.ac.uk/
> Opening hours, research help, archives: http://libguides.cam.ac.uk/africanstudies
> Twitter: @AfrStudiesLib
> Instagram: @afrlib
>
>
>
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