Audio description is no longer one-size-fits-all. Verbit offers both expert-written audio description for premium and regulated content and AI-powered audio description services to help organizations scale accessibility faster and more efficiently.
Powered by Verbit’s proprietary automatic speech recognition (ASR) and AI technology, automated audio description enables teams to generate high-quality descriptions for video at speed, making it ideal for large content libraries, internal communications, training videos, education, and digital-first media. Verbit’s AI Audio Description helps organizations meet accessibility expectations while balancing turnaround time, volume, and budget.
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Receive live assistance from a dedicated support team every step of the way, ensuring your audio description projects stay on track, on time, and fully supported.
AI Audio Description helps you cover more content faster and at a lower cost. Add human-developed descriptions or optional human review for high stakes content when it matters most.
Support WCAG 2.1 Level AA compliance requirements for video. Verbit helps you implement audio description across new content and existing libraries to meet Title II compliance.
Receive audio descriptions on your content and utilize Verbit’s Smart Player to layer extended audio descriptions and closed captions over any online video. Discover the Smart Player’s interactive playback features like transcript search, clip and share and more.
Reflect your brand’s dedication to inclusivity. Audio describe your video content to make it accessible to employees and consumers who are blind or have vision loss.
Support Title II compliance requirements. Provide audio description on all campus videos, including recorded ones shown in courses, to make them accessible to students and individuals in your university community who are blind or have vision loss.
Improve accessibility for hearings, public meetings, and training content with audio description. Support ADA Title II and WCAG 2 compliance requirements for digital content.
Support FCC & ADA guidelines and tell inclusive stories. Audio describe your films, shows and media content to make them accessible to audience members who are blind or have vision loss.
Verbit’s AI Audio Description uses artificial intelligence to automatically generate spoken descriptions of key visual elements in video, helping blind and low-vision audiences understand on-screen action, visuals, and context.
Verbit’s AI Audio Description was designed to support key accessibility guidelines, including ADA Title II. It can support your organization’s accessibility goals, especially for large-scale or internal content.
Yes. Verbit offers a flexible approach, allowing customers to choose AI, expert, or hybrid audio description depending on content type, audience, and compliance requirements.
You can access your audio description by downloading it in various formats. Simply go to the Download section under your completed job and select Audio Descriptions. Available formats include AD.VTT for extended audio descriptions, AD.HTML and AD.TXT for full text alternatives, and SM.TXT for an audio index. If your video is available publicly, you can also use the Smart Player Link by going to the job, clicking Download, then selecting Plugins, and Smart Player.
Verbit currently supports audio description in English and Spanish, with plans to support additional languages in the future.
Yes, audio description can be applied to various types of videos, including educational content, corporate training, marketing materials, and entertainment.
