Very sad that this is not available in the UK! It sounds amazing! Just what we need!
Kirsten Sent from my iPhone > On 20 Nov 2013, at 01:38, Joanne Chua <[email protected]> wrote: > > For your information. > > Regards > Joanne > > Experience Descriptive Audio at the Theater with a New iOS App MovieReading > Article link: http://blindbargains.com/bargains.php?m=9923 > > > Posted by Alena Roberts today 5:45 PM ET > blindbargains.com > > Many theaters around the country are starting to offer the visually > impaired the option of listening to the descriptive audio track while > they're watching a film. Sadly though, this technology is not > available everywhere, and sometimes it doesn't work. The team at > Solo-DX wants to make the experience better by having the blind > film-goer use a smart phone app to listen to the descriptive audio > track instead. Last week, I had the opportunity to test out the new > MovieReading app. The interface is very simple. Once you're logged in, > you visit the Marketplace, download the descriptive audio track for > the film you're going to go see at your theater, and than start the > track when your film begins. The app will listen to the audio in the > theater and sync the audio track with where the film is so that the > user doesn't have to try and match the two tracks themselves. to test > the app, I downloaded the Princess Bride track and then watched some > Youtube clips from the film. In all three cases, the sync option > worked perfectly. The MovieReading app's latest version is expected to > be released before November 22nd, the opening day of the film > "Philomena" which will be the first movie to use the app's new > features. MovieReading is currently available on iOS, and they hope to > have an Android version soon. Pasted below is a press release from > Solo-DX about the MovieReading app and "Philomena". > > As exclusive U.S. partners with Universal Multimedia Access, Hollywood > Access Services is releasing Solo-Dx on MovieReading, the first ever > auto-syncing audio description app available for first-run movies. The > debut title on this exciting new platform will be The Weinstein > Company¹s Philomena, in theaters November 22. Using acoustic > fingerprinting technology, this new auto-syncing method will -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing [email protected]. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing [email protected]. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing [email protected]. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
