"audio description" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: audio descriptions [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} audio description (plural audio descriptions)
  1. An audio track on a video recording, timed to the footage of a film, that typically consists of a narrator describing what is happening in the film being shown. Wikipedia link: audio description Categories (topical): Film, Television Synonyms: video description, AD, audiodescription, audio-description Derived forms: AD Related terms: described audio, ST, subtitle, subtitling, CC, closed caption, closed captioning Coordinate_terms: described video Translations (Translations): audiodescriptie [feminine] (Dutch), kuvailutulkkaus (Finnish), vidéodescription [feminine] (French), audiodescription [feminine] (French), audiodescrizione [feminine] (Italian), audiodeskrypcja [feminine] (Polish), audiodescrição [feminine] (Portuguese), audiodescripción [feminine] (Spanish)

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