The phrase "audiovisual description" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to media, accessibility, or descriptions of visual and auditory content, often in relation to films, videos, or presentations.
Example: "The film includes an audiovisual description to assist viewers with visual impairments in understanding the visual elements."
Alternatives: "audio description" or "multimedia description".
For those enlightened few, there is the Meade mySKY, a handheld gizmo that allows the user to point to an object in the night sky and receive an audiovisual description of it from a built-in database of more than thirty thousand planets, stars, galaxies, nebulae, and other cosmic tourist attractions (B & H Photo, 420 Ninth Avenue, at 34th, or Amazon.com; $399).
Table 1 Audiovisual content descriptions.
Most audiovisual work involves screens of some description and often those screens are at the back of a stage with a bank of audio equipment and wires set up in front of them.
Additional materials include a sizeable collection of travel slides from Wahl and Sarduy's vacations and other audiovisual materials such as photographs, negatives, and the description of 43 audio cassettes.
This paper proposes an automatic summarization system for generic audiovisual content based on MPEG-7 compliant summary descriptions.
Modality effects have been observed, such that women show greater subjective and genital responses to audiovisual depictions of sexual activity compared with audiotaped descriptions of sexual interactions or sexual fantasy (Heiman, 1980; Stock & Geer, 1982).
Men also demonstrate greater subjective and genital responses to audiovisual depictions of sexual interactions compared with audiotaped descriptions of sexual activity or still pictures of couples engaged in intercourse (Sakheim, Barlow, Beck, & Abrahamson, 1985).
Such audiovisual aids aim at enhancing the understanding of the written description.
Content Description: MPEG-7 provides DSs for description of the structure and semantics of AudioVisual (AV) content.
Several authors describing the PBL process include descriptions of additional structured educational activities and sources of guidance such as references, audiovisual aids and lectures relevant to the problem as scaffolds to enhance student learning (Ertmer and Simons 2006; Saye and Brush 2002; Simons and Klein 2007; Taylor and Miflin 2008).
If you didn't experience Amon Tobin's immersive audiovisual extravaganza ISAM show last year in the flesh, then you probably lived it vicariously through a friend's description, our video on it, or the various footage of it that surfaced afterwards.
