@inproceedings{a9fcf6a76e4241cb87b4b745d82dac27,
title = "Deploying Prerecorded Audio Description for Musical Theater Using Live Performance Tracking",
abstract = "Audio description, an accessibility service used by blind or visually impaired individuals, provides spoken descriptions of visual content. This alternative format allows those with low or no vision the ability to access information that sighted people obtain visually. In this paper a method for deploying prerecorded audio description in a live musical theater environment is presented. This method uses a reference audio recording and an online time warping algorithm to align tracks of audio description with live performances. A software implementation that is integrated into an existing theatrical workflow is also described. This system is used in two evaluation experiments that show the method successfully aligns multiple recordings of works of musical theater in order to automatically trigger prerecorded, descriptive audio in real time.",
keywords = "Accessibility, Audio description, Blind, Disability, Musical theater, Time warping, Visually impaired",
author = "{Vander Wilt}, Dirk and Farbood, {Morwaread Mary}",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2021, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.; 14th International Symposium on Perception, Representations, Image, Sound, Music, CMMR 2019 ; Conference date: 14-10-2019 Through 18-10-2019",
year = "2021",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-030-70210-6_13",
language = "English (US)",
isbn = "9783030702090",
series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)",
publisher = "Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH",
pages = "181--189",
editor = "Richard Kronland-Martinet and S{\o}lvi Ystad and Mitsuko Aramaki",
booktitle = "Perception, Representations, Image, Sound, Music - 14th International Symposium, CMMR 2019, Revised Selected Papers",
address = "Germany",
}