Finnberry does Ed-Tech

When I posted my previous post, asking for a volunteer to do be my audio description voice, I wasn't sure whether anyone would even read it, never mind volunteer. I was so excited when a friend on Twitter contacted me and her daughter, Alice had offered to record the audio tracks.  I have to say, she has a really good voice for audio work and I think the finished product is really good! I was surprised at how easy it was to do. I just dragged Alice's audio files, which she had recorded from my last blog and named very logically, onto a new audio track in the time line. I had to increase the audio gain to make her clips a little louder but the quality was such that this was fine and didn't cause any problems with extra noise.  Anyway, enough of me. Here is the final version with audio description:

 This guideline is given at all three levels: 1.2.3 Level A - provide audio description or a text alternative 1.2.5 Level AA - provide audio description - this generally fits between existing audio/dialogue 1.2.7 Level AAA - provide extended audio description (this is where the video pauses to give more information to the user in a longer audio description that wouldn't fit neatly between existing audio Audio description (AA) Unlike captions, which YouTube helps you to do, audio description actually involves some planning and a fair bit of extra work. I confess, I have never attempted to do a video with audio description as it seems a daunting task. Maybe now is the time to have a go! Choosing a video This is where I realise why I haven't considered making an audio description yet. Most of my recent videos are instruction videos and I'm kind of giving the information as I go. With hindsight, I could have probably planned them with more thought for those that can't see t...