TapTechNews May 16th report, according to Tencent's official WeChat account, Tencent and the China Braille Library jointly released the Tencent Video Accessible Theater today. Visually impaired users will be able to achieve online accessible movie-watching through this platform. The platform will gradually launch more than 600 high-quality popular film and television works including The Three-Body Problem, covering movies, TV dramas, children's animations, and will also include variety shows in the future. At the same time, the platform will collect user preferences through questionnaires and then complete targeted productions. It is introduced that visually impaired users can log in to the Tencent Video App, recognize that the screen reader on their phone is turned on, and the Accessible Theater will automatically appear as the first button on the left side of the Tencent Video homepage, eliminating some unnecessary operations. In terms of accessible film production, the official stated that they have implemented Tencent Video's AI large model technology, which can directly generate draft oral scripts based on factors such as plot and dialogue intervals, and can also achieve self-production in dubbing and synthesis, shortening the production cycle of accessible films to an average of 10 days. TapTechNews note: Today (16th) is the 2024 Global Accessibility Awareness Day, usually the third Thursday in May each year. The purpose of this day is to encourage people to discuss, think about, and understand the accessibility support and inclusivity of digital environments (such as the internet, software, mobile devices, etc.) for over 1.2 billion people with different disabilities worldwide.
