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Full History - 2016 - 03 - 17 - ID#4as1vg
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I really miss being able to watch foreign language films. (self.Blind)
submitted by LeftAl
There doesn't seem to be any way to watch them though, other than learning the language. I think the best solution would be to have a screen reader type voice read the subtitles in real time as the film plays. Have any of you ever watched a foreign language film?
Southpaw5000 3 points 7y ago
Yeah this is something I haven't tried since losing my vision as well. I'm probably not the best person to provide feedback though since movies haven't ever been major priorities. If there's one out that everyone seems to love then I'll check it out but usually they come and go without me even noticing.
That being said I'm sure there are people out there that are totally into this. Maybe finding someone to watch it with that enjoys reading subtitles would be worth a shot.
LeftAl [OP] 2 points 7y ago
Thank you anyway. Fucking sucks because there's some great foreign language movies and tv shows. There's a ton of stuff I miss but I didn't expect foreign language movies to be one of them. I do quite like audio description though and think it works well.
Allycat86 1 points 7y ago
The only foreign language film I know of that has audio description is Let the Right One In. The person doing the audio description also reads the subtitles. I don't know of any other movies like it though.
fastfinge 1 points 7y ago
No. I don't even watch films dubbed into English. I find that the English voice actors never get the tone close enough that I can tell the original emotion behind what was said. Plus, the way the voice is dubbed in, it doesn't fit with the rest of the soundtrack of the film. So it becomes almost impossible to match the original movement sounds (footsteps, rustling, etc) with the voices. And that makes it difficult to impossible for me to tell what's happening on screen.
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