Audio Description Services for Film, TV & Digital Content
At The Voiceover Gallery, we provide audio description services that make your visual media more accessible and inclusive for every audience.
With high-quality, channel-ready audio description tailored to each production, we provide a fully in-house, end-to-end service covering every stage of delivery.
What Are Audio Description Services?
Audio description services are narrated commentaries that describe important visual elements for blind or visually impaired viewers. We create professional audio description tracks, recorded and edited by our in-house team, that clearly describe key visual elements and make your content more accessible.
The viewing experience should never be disrupted, which is why our audio description services keep inclusion in mind, helping every viewer to be catered for. Audio descriptions are usually inserted during natural pauses in dialogue, so you can always hear what is being said, filling in key details for an optimal viewing experience.
By adding audio description to your content, you can expand audience reach and support a more inclusive viewing experience. With improved accessibility for visually impaired viewers, you’ll also be able to meet legal and platform accessibility requirements where they apply.
Examples of what is typically described in audio descriptions services include:
- Actions
- Scene changes
- Facial expressions
- On-screen text
- Settings
- Visual cues
Professional Audio Description Services Tailored to Your Production
Our audio description services are delivered as a full end-to-end package, covering each stage needed to produce a track tailored to your content and platform. Our service starts at script writing and takes you all the way through to post-production – your true one-stop shop for audio description services.
Each project is adapted to the genre, pace, audience and distribution channel, with flexibility for both short-form and long-form content. We can work from rough cuts, locked edits, final masters or start right from the beginning, delivering consistency, clarity, sensitivity and editorial accuracy.
Script Writing & Narrative Development
Script writing for audio description needs to fit the visuals, creating a concise and seamless viewing experience. Well-timed scripts with the right descriptive detail focus on clarity without distracting from the original programme audio.
Our audio description scripts are tailored to the tone and genre of your content and are always approved by you to make sure they match your vision and intended outcome.
Key features of our audio description script writing include essential visual detail, neutral wording, careful timing between dialogue and sound cues, and clarity around characters and actions.
Professional Voice Recording
Our voice recording stage is delivered by talented, professional voice actors with experience in descriptive narration. We use our team of experienced voice artists to produce the most accessible audio description possible.
You’ll be able to choose the voice actor best suited to your project, with options over tone and delivery, from warm to authoritative.
Our voice recording stage produces clean, studio-quality audio, supported by experienced sound engineers and professional-grade equipment. Our professional voice actors will include consistency in their pace, pronunciation and delivery, and have the ability to match house style, brand tone or broadcaster requirements.
Post-Production & Mixing
Making sure that audio description services align with your content’s original audio is vital. This is why during our post-production and mixing stage, we synchronise audio description accurately to picture and dialogue gaps for the best viewing experience. Audio balancing is also considered, ensuring that narration is clear, but not overpowering to the viewer.
We take care of editing, mastering and final mix preparation using talented audio engineers, so you can be confident in receiving clear, professional-quality audio description.
If you need separate audio description files or mixed masters, we can deliver in the format that best suits your workflow. We take care of compatibility, making sure that your audio description is ready for broadcast, streaming and online delivery specifications.
Compliance & Accessibility Standards
There are relevant accessibility guidelines and broadcast or platform requirements that we stick to. Our audio description is designed to support inclusive media distribution, so quality control is carried out for intelligibility, timing and consistency.
We also support you in navigating compliance expectations, so your audio description is prepared for the right distribution channel and output. We work with you to make sure everything is accurate and ready to go, reducing risk and improving preparation for distribution.
Audio Description for Film, TV & Digital Media
Each format of visual media has different pacing, style and technical needs, with the team at The Voiceover Gallery being experts in every format. Whilst knowing how to create audio description that is perfect for your content type, we also provide scalability options from single assets to an ongoing series of work.
Audio description truly is for everyone, whether that’s audiences or types of media. Audio description isn’t restricted to entertainment, as it is commonly requested and used for commercial media as well.
Examples of content types that we’re able to provide audio description services for include:
- Feature films and short films
- TV programmes and series
- Documentaries
- Advertisements and branded content
- Streaming/on-demand content
- YouTube and social video
- Corporate and internal communications
- Educational and e-learning content
If you’re looking for audio description service for content that isn’t in our list, that’s ok! Talk to our team who will be more than happy to help you across any form of visual content.
Why Choose The Voiceover Gallery for Descriptive Audio Services?
We are truly your one-stop shop for audio description services, taking care of every stage of the process with our phenomenally talented team. Trusted by major brands and productions, we’ve built a strong reputation in audio description through accuracy, quality and a clear commitment to making visual media more accessible.
As a trusted, professional provider of audio description services, our strengths include experienced voice actors, high production standards and turnaround times shaped around your project requirements. We’re able to provide in-depth project support so you know you’ll receive audio description just the way you need it.
Communication is crucial to us, and we maintain open dialogue with you throughout the project. We want to make sure you’re happy that your audio description is sounding perfect. To do this, we work alongside you to generate an understanding of both creative and technical requirements for your audio description. This helps our responsive team provide a reliable, quality-controlled service backed by accessibility expertise.
Trusted Expertise in Audio Description
We work with brands, agencies and broadcasters to deliver high-quality audio description services that improves the accessibility and audience reach of their content. Our approach to audio description services and our insights have been featured in leading industry publication LBB, where we explore the growing role of accessibility in modern advertising.
Our Audio Description Process
While we follow a clear process for audio description, we build in checkpoints throughout the project to gather your approvals and feedback. You’ll feel the benefit of efficient project management, with clear, defined timelines so that you know the progress of your project. We make sure our process is as smooth for you as possible, working alongside your production schedule.
For an idea of what each stage of our process looks like, we’ve broken it down into the following steps.
We receive the brief and source material from you, including everything available at that stage. This includes your locked offline edit, including on-screen text, for us to check eligibility.
We review the content and make notes of every audio descriptive requirement there is for your visual media, checking if there’s enough space in the audio for audio description.
Up until now, no activity is chargeable. If your content is eligible for audio description and there’s enough space for audio description, your project can get underway.
We begin to write and time scripts for your content, making sure it sounds seamless. You sign off on our script or note any concerns for us to make amendments.
Using our professional voice actors, the narration is recorded in our state-of-the-art studios.
Moving onto post-production, we edit, mix and quality check the audio.
We deliver the final audio files in the format that you require.
Audio Description Services FAQs
To cover some of the most common questions we receive about audio description, we’ve answered some of them for you! If you have more questions that we’ve not addressed, feel free to ask our team.
What is the difference between audio description and subtitles?
There’s a big difference between audio description and subtitles. Audio description is narration of key events, actions and details in content, which can be heard in natural gaps in your content’s audio – it’s a great form of accessibility for visually-impaired viewers. Subtitles, on the other hand, are on-screen text. Whilst it’s another form of accessibility for visual media, it benefits a hearing-impaired audience, rather than a visually impaired one. Subtitles are read and do not provide audible assistance for visually impaired viewers.
How long does it take to produce professional audio description services?
Every project is different, so we shape the process and timeline around your requirements. Our timeline is outlined at the start of the project, and we’re flexible to help work alongside your production schedule. Aspects that influence the length of an audio description service include total runtime, complexity of visuals, availability of pauses in dialogue and the number of deliverables required.
What formats do you deliver audio description in?
Delivery of audio description files can be tailored to your workflow and platform requirements. Common delivery options include:
- Separate audio files
- Mixed master files
- Broadcast-ready files
- Web-ready digital files
We can provide you with a standalone narration track or help to integrate it into your final programme audio, depending on the requirements. We talk with you about delivery specifications before we get underway, so we’re able to match any technical requirements that you have.
Can you provide multilingual audio description services?
Absolutely! Our talented voice actors are fluent in a wide range of languages and local dialects, so we can talk to you about multilingual audio description if it’s a service that you desire. This will include translation of audio description scripts and access to fluent-level voice talent.
Of course, multilingual audio description may push the turnaround time of the project back due to complexity in translation. We maintain our accuracy, timing and clarity in multilingual audio description, so you’ll always receive a stellar service, no matter the language.
Request a Quote for Audio Description Services
If you’re ready to see if your visual content is ready for audio description, get in touch with The Voiceover Gallery team. We’ll talk through your content, confirm it’s suitable for audio description, and outline the best next steps to get your project underway.
At The Voiceover Gallery, we make sure your content becomes more inclusive and accessible while adding value to the viewing experience.
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