Book cover - Innovation in Audio Description Research. Pale blue cover featuring a network of yellow and dark blue dots. Routledge.

Opening a New Chapter on Audio Description

At the end of July, MeMAD featured in a volume of ground-breaking research in the field of multimedia accessibility with the publication of Innovation in Audio Description Research (Routledge), an edited collection of projects pitched at the cutting edge of audiovisual research. In Comparing human and automated approaches to visual storytelling (Braun, Starr & Laaksonen),…

MeMAD in the news – Maaseudun tulevaisuus published two articles on machine translation

Maaseudun Tulevaisuus published two articles about machine translation and the MeMAD project, interviewing our researcher Maarit Koponen from the University of Helsinki Read more (in Finnish): Machine can translate and interpret even voice in the future: “It can be fairly useful for a tourist soon”, says a researcher. Do you know how Google Translate works…