Speed, quality, cost - pick two.
That's the devil's bargain universities have been forced to make with accessibility for far too long. Want audio description for your courses? Great - you can have it fast and good, if you're willing to pay a fortune. Want it affordable and high-quality? You'll be waiting weeks. Want it quick and cheap? Not possible.
In 2024, when artificial intelligence is helping us develop new medicines and uncover ancient languages, schools across the country are being forced to spend small fortunes on legacy services while students are asked to wait weeks for basic materials. Surrounding industries have been transformed by this technology, but, somehow, accessibility services have remained curiously and frustratingly unchanged. So we decided to shake things up.
Today, we're releasing Luna: the world's first AI audio description system. This launch represents the culmination of thousands of engineering hours, countless iterations, and an unwavering commitment to our mission of universal accessibility. At its core, Luna is a state of the art audio description system built to reimagine how AD is created and experienced.
We've developed novel architectures that glide through even the most rigorous educational content - from graduate-level physics to abstract art history - and generate nuanced, contextually-aware descriptions that preserve the pedagogical intent of the original material. These technical breakthroughs have led to a tremendous human impact: what once took weeks can now be done in minutes; what once strained institutional budgets will now be offered at a fraction of the cost.
The timing is critical. Recent Title II updates have put a timetable on institutions' obligations around accessibility, but without new tools, these mandates simply add pressure to an already strained system. Luna allows for a transformation of this challenge into an opportunity for systematic change. When accessibility becomes programmatically and financially scalable, we can shift from a mindset of minimum compliance to one of universal design.
This shift is absolutely critical for the students across this country who these laws were designed to protect; every moment of delay in providing accessible materials ripples through their academic journey. Universal accessibility is about ensuring equal access to knowledge, maintaining academic momentum, and preserving the dignity of choice in education. The status quo has forced students to choose between waiting for accessible materials or changing their academic paths. This is fundamentally unjust, and now, with Luna, it's unnecessary.
We’re incredibly proud to be building this future alongside dozens of the world’s leading higher education institutions. With the launch of Luna General Access, we invite trailblazers across the country who are tired of impossible trade-offs in accessibility to join us.
Welcome to a new type of audio description experience: Speed, quality, cost - pick three.