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Terms used in accessibility research and practice. Each entry has a definition, common aliases, and category tags.

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Non-diegetic Sound(also: Non-diegetic Audio, Extradiegetic Sound)
Sound in film, television, or games that does not originate from any source within the story world and cannot be heard by the characters - for example, orchestral score, voice-over narration, or added accessibility cues. This contrasts with diegetic sound, which exists in the…
Text-to-Sound(also: Text-to-Audio, TTA, Sound Generation from Text)
A class of generative AI models that synthesize non-speech audio - sound effects, ambient environments, foley, or short music clips - from a natural-language description such as 'a door creaking shut' or 'cloth ruffling as a coat is removed'. Distinct from text-to-speech, which…

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