To start, I had most the movie memorized, so I was able to fill in about 90% of the description myself. Where I couldn't fill in the gaps, I had some sighted assistance.
I dropped the video into my digital audio workstation, at the time was Sonar, and then set up a second audio track.
I, then opened up notepad and created a blank text document.
I changed my NVDA voice to Eva and set the speed at 60 and pitch at default, and volume at full.
I, then, lined out of the computer into my interface into an input I could mute.
Since the interface ddn't send audio to my computer, the sound sources are separate.
I would, then, type out what I wanted NVDA to say on the notepad, each line was a different set of phrases, so if I wanted to say some things in the first line, I'd type it out, and when I wanted a break before the second line or to break up a line, I'd put it on the next line of the notepad. so all I had to do was push the down arrow key when I wanted it to talk and say the next set of events.
I would record the voice in segments, and when it was done, just render the MP3, and hazaa. audio described movie.
I'll be the first to admit it's not anything special. I just wanted to really see if I could do it. I tried doing the verbal description myself, but I found that I couldn't bring myself to be as consistent, so I switched to using the screen reader. There's no excessive breathing, puffing on the mic, and hissing from the description track, so that helps a lot.
It took me about a day and a half to do this movie on a regular 8 hour work day, with breaks, so it wasn't difficult, just tedious.
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