arxivcs.HC2026-07-23
Sonic Stage: Automatically Generating Interactive Spatial Soundscapes to Facilitate Dialogue Video Comprehension for Blind Viewers
Shuchang Xu, Xiaofu Jin, Gaurav Jain, Wenshuo Zhang, Huamin Qu, Brian A. Smith, et al.
Audio description (AD) makes film and television accessible to blind and low-vision (BLV) audiences by narrating characters' actions. However, in scenes with lots of dialogue, AD often omits important actions because it is constrained not to overlap with speech. It is not yet kno…