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Sky's Premier League Audio Description, Freight Fate and Apple HomeView
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Sky Sports is adding audio description and live captions to Premier League football. Then a listener's frustration with Sky Go shows how far the broadcaster still has to go. Steven Scott and Shaun Preece go through your emails and messages on TV accessibility, AI agents, accessible gaming and the smart home. Gordon from Livingston, Scotland, wrote in about Sky Go. You can't watch live programmes with audio description on your phone, and the TV guide no longer tags any programme as having AD. Steven explains how the new Sky Go app for Sky Glass and Sky Stream...
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- 197 words a minute: natural, fairly fast speech.
- 127 harder words (B2 and up) in the whole episode.
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Hey guys welcome on to another episode of Double Tap and today we're diving into your emails, WhatsApps and... This is Double Tap, where blind people talk tech. Here's Steven Scott and Sean Preece.
Oosh! Oh Sean Preece thank you, you have delivered your contribution to today's programme. That's my responsibilities taken care of. Thank you very much, I'll just sit here.
You don't need to do any more than that. Coming up today, we're going to get into your messages, one in particular shortly, on audio description. Did you see the news from Sky TV in the UK?
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