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EASIT.
Easy Access for Social Inclusion Training.

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Unit 3B. Easy to understand

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and audio description.

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Element 3. Technical aspects.

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Interview with professionals:
Bernd Benecke.

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In this interview,
AD professional Bernd Benecke

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will discuss technical aspects of AD

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and their impact on making AD

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easy to understand.

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I am Bernd Benecke,

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head of AD at Bayerischer Rundfunk
Bavarian Broadcasting, Germany.

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Here are my answers for the EASIT project.

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Are there 
technical adjustments

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to improve the listenability of AD?

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I can talk about our project.

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We arrow the description
as a pre-mix

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through the channels,
to the broadcasting.

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This is the idea of using HBB TV

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and an app,
that looks like this,

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to transmit the "Pure AD".

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So blind people

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can listen to the description,
like in the cinema,

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while the soundtrack comes from your TV

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and sighted people
can watch the film without AD

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and you can get the AD on your headset

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and adjust the volume,

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make it louder so it is easier to listen.

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That is done in this app.

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It is still in the testing model.

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We only have it to Android phones.

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You have to have TV via satellite.

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So this would be a technical aspect

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that can make things
easier to understand and to listen to.

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Do you think
extended AD can be a solution

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for people with cognitive, intellectual
or learning disabilities?

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Everybody would love extended AD.

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When you do not have to put
the stuff into the gaps

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in between the dialogues.

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But where do you put extended AD?

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It is not possible:
you cannot stop the film.

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If you'd like to put extended AD,

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you have to go to the internet,

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have an audio introduction, e.g.,

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and put your extended AD there.

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Or if you have a DVD or a blue ray,

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you can have an audio track

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for the extended AD.

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But for things

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that have to do with
getting the story told,

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you must put
the description in between the gaps.

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According to you,

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would TTS AD be better than human AD

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for people with cognitive,
intellectual or learning disabilities?

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I am not a fan of text-to-speech voices.

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I prefer human voices.

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I do not see why
TTS is better to understand

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for the special audience.

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This video was prepared by Elisa Perego,

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produced by Angelika De Marchis,

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Laura Marini and Annalisa Navetta

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from University of Trieste.
The narrator was Annalisa Navetta.