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"Since the recent explosion of widely available generative artificial
intelligence (AI), it now seems that a new AI tool emerges every week.
With varying success, AI offers solutions for productivity, creativity,
research, and also accessibility: making products, services and other content
more usable for people with disability.
The award-winning 2024 Super Bowl ad for Google Pixel 8 is a poignant example
of how the latest AI tech can intersect with disability.
Directed by blind director Adam Morse, it showcases an AI-powered feature that
uses audio cues, haptic feedback (where vibrating sensations communicate
information to the user) and animations to assist blind and low-vision users in
capturing photos and videos.
The ad was applauded for being disability inclusive and representative. It also
demonstrated a growing capacity for – and interest in – AI to generate more
accessible technology.
AI is also poised to challenge how audio description is created and what it may
sound like. This is the focus of our research team.
Audio description is a track of narration that describes important visual
elements of visual media, including television shows, movies and live
performances. Synthetic voices and quick, automated visual descriptions might
result in more audio description on our screens. But will users lose out in
other ways?"
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
