Audio Description

Museum audio description is often described as a collaborative effort, and that is accurate. Writers, accessibility consultants, engineers, curators, and historians all contribute to the final experience. Yet for the visitor using audio description, there is one constant presence throughout the space: the voice. The voice actor becomes the guide, the point of orientation, and […]

For many museum visitors, audio description operates quietly in the background. For blind and low-vision visitors, it is the experience. In galleries, memorial halls, and cultural institutions, the voice does not supplement what is seen. It replaces it. That responsibility places museum audio description among the most exacting forms of voiceover work, requiring a level […]