AI-powered Audio Description: seeking feedback from the community

By Marina Akenteva, 16 October, 2026

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Assistive Technology

Hi everyone. I’m a blind software developer. I built an AI-powered tool to generate audio description.

I see this project as a way to create quick drafts for professionals, or to provide AD for content that would otherwise never get it due to budget constraints-especially in non-English languages, where accessibility is often lacking.

In my opinion, the results turned out quite solid. To let you judge for yourself, here is an example: the animated short Sprite Fright:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xLCFIPgO5V-foRXymnTq73Y0A4TmCGA9/view?usp=sharing

I’d really appreciate your feedback! I also want to test the system with other languages. If you'd like to check how it sounds in your native language, let me know in the comments or email me at [email protected]-I can run a free 10–15 minute test on a video you provide.

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By ziixies on Friday, October 16, 2026 - 11:50

Apologies, but how are we meant to test if we don't have a link or some form of thing to actually test it with?

By Trenton Matthews on Friday, October 16, 2026 - 12:12

In reply to by ziixies

Link' available in the top now.

By Marina Akenteva on Friday, October 16, 2026 - 12:13

The app itself is currently in development. Right now, I'm interested in feedback on the quality of the audio description itself. You can send me a video, and I will send back the audio description for it.

By Marina Akenteva on Saturday, October 17, 2026 - 14:11

Thanks for pointing that out!

If this project ever turns into a full public app, my plan is to keep the pricing significantly lower.

I wanted to compare the quality with ViddyScribe directly, but as far as I understand, creating standard audio description without pauses requires a paid subscription. If anyone has an example of a video processed with ViddyScribe, I’d be curious to check it out and compare the results with my tool.

By Brad on Saturday, October 17, 2026 - 17:59

You don't get as much info. it's so interesting that there's at least 3 or so audio description tools now. Yeah i just checked and I need to upgrade to get standard audio description.

I stil like their youtube part though that is a huge win for me but if they're all working on the same backend, I think sonarpad uses google for example, we aren't really getting anything that stands out are we?
I find it a bit strange how you have to contact vidiscribe for their individual plans, oh it's nothing bad just... not how I'd do it.

If you wanted to stand out and have something I'd personally pay for, i think I'd like to write to the video. Like if we take Abby from the last of us, what does she look like, call her Abby and store it in the databass, look up the last of us lore and include that, that kind of thing, I don't know if that's doable just yet with AI.