new blog post and link to open access JAES article here. Or click on the pic.

For a long time now Ofcom and broadcasters have received complaints that speech on TV can be difficult, or impossible, to understand. The problem is of course much worse for viewers who with even quite mild hearing loss. Reasons are varied and well described in a recent Conversation article from one of our researchers, Lauren Ward. Causes include unfamiliar accents, unclear speaking from actors, excessive background sound effects or music and even occasionally badly recorded location audio…..

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Interesting accessible media conference coming up in York from the Enhancing Audio Description project.

Conference on Accessibility in Film, Television, and Interactive Media Saturday 14th October – Sunday 15th October 2017 Department of Theatre, Film and Television, University of York

Interesting conference

Source: Conference – Enhancing Audio Description

Salford researcher Lauren Ward speaking at AES event in York next week.

Source: Audio Engineering Society UK » Snap, Crackle and Pop; Understanding the relationship between dialogue intelligibility and SFX for accessible broadcast audio.