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Audio Description

Narration track that conveys on-screen visual information to blind and low-vision viewers, written to fit the pauses between lines of dialogue.

Current clusters

build1 publisher

A 2.4-second silence gap buys five words of audio description

In a dev.to walkthrough, FFmpeg's silencedetect finds the gaps, a word budget prices each one at 2.5 words a second, and any narration that renders longer than its gap is thrown out and generated again shorter.

Publishers:dev.to

Reality

Evidence58
Adoption
Insufficient
Hype gap+8
Incentives15
Confidence55