Vision-impaired opera-goers now able to follow lyrics or scripts without interference of audio descriptions
New Zealand’s blind and low-vision opera fans will be the first in the world to have access to braille surtitles, designed to enrich their experience of a live performance without the interference of audio descriptions.
NZ Opera’s general director, Brad Cohen, developed the technology alongside his company contexts.live. It sends braille surtitles to a user’s personal braille-reading machine, at the same time the sighted audience is reading the translations on screen.Photograph: Andi Crown Photography Users of the technology access the text through a webpage on their phone, which then sends the words, line by line, to the braille reader.
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