Audio Description
A narrator voices the action between the dialogue — gestures, scenery, costumes and expressions — so nothing on screen is missed.
Audio Description (AD) is an additional narration track that describes the important visual elements of a film: who's on screen, what they're doing, where they are and how the scene looks — slotted neatly into the natural pauses between dialogue.
With KinoSync, the AD track streams privately to your earphones and stays perfectly in time with the screening, so the description lands exactly when the action does. You hear the film and its description together, in the same room as everyone else.
Good audio description is written and voiced to match the film. A tense thriller, a sweeping period drama and a gentle children's film each call for a different pace and tone, so the narration carries the mood of the picture rather than reading like a flat list of events. It names what matters — a meaningful glance, a hidden object, on-screen text like a letter or a sign — without ever talking over the dialogue or giving the story away early.
Audio description is essential for blind and low-vision audiences, but it isn't only for them: some people use it while multitasking, while learning a language, or simply because they enjoy the richer telling. At the cinema it has historically meant rare, awkwardly-timed special screenings — KinoSync removes that limit, so you can choose audio description for the showtime you actually want, in any cinema seat.
Audio Description: questions answered
What is audio description?
Audio description is a spoken narration that describes the key visual details of a film — actions, settings, facial expressions and on-screen text — in the natural gaps between dialogue, so blind and low-vision audiences experience the whole story.
How do I get audio description at the cinema?
Open KinoSync, choose your film, select the audio description track and press play as the film starts. The narration streams privately to your earphones and stays in time with the screening — no special showing and no extra equipment needed.
Is audio description only for blind people?
It's designed for blind and low-vision audiences, but plenty of sighted people use it too — when multitasking, learning a language, or simply for the richer narration.
Can I control the audio description volume?
Yes. Because the description plays to your own earphones, you set it to a comfortable level against the film's soundtrack, independently of the cinema's sound.
Download KinoSync. Never miss a frame.
Free to download. Bring it to your next screening and turn on the tracks you need — Audio Description, Captions, Sign Language.
Available on iOS & Android · works in any cinema seat