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<p class="MsoNormal">I posted this to another list.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">From list name redacted
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Subject:</span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none"> AI writing coaches for audio description<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">One of the sub-projects connected with the <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/unidescription.org/__;!!A-B3JKCz!H4fS5lDDJ_EKl_3rh6r1uK86Uly4RwCXt65nUQw5kzBzem35K6ROb80XMlSoo6F222B5iDaMJXv_4d1_UdO2DuTNAOGz2wl5UZ4$">
UniDescription Project</a> are the Access hounds.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/guidedogs.accesshound.com/describe-now__;!!A-B3JKCz!H4fS5lDDJ_EKl_3rh6r1uK86Uly4RwCXt65nUQw5kzBzem35K6ROb80XMlSoo6F222B5iDaMJXv_4d1_UdO2DuTNAOGzuoaGeUk$">Describe now! - Guidedogs</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Rather than creating AI descriptions, the Access hounds are writing coaches, built by AI to improve human-written descriptions of images.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Each “guide dog” has the personality of a particular type of reader, such as a bored teen or a professor type who wants to know more about the image.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">By “releasing the hounds” on a description, the describer can get a feel how different types of readers or listeners will react to the description they provide.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">We have been using the guide dogs in our yearly project to describe park brochures and they are very fun and enlightening to play with.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The website has a sample photo and sample description already pasted in, which you can use to play with the dogs. Or you can replace the photo and description with your own.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">If you know describers in your work or school environment, invite them to create an account on accessHound to get greater feedback for their descriptions.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">--Debee<o:p></o:p></p>
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