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Amazon Prime launches new feature to make dialogue louder without ruining the viewing experience
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One of the most frustrating experiences when you're watching TV and you can only hear the background noise — the explosions and the music — of a scene but not the actual dialogue. Enter: Dialogue Boost.
Amazon Prime Video is rolling out a new accessibility feature that allows users to increase the volume of dialogue without increasing background music and effects, saving people from being forced to turn on subtitles if they don't want to.
"At Prime Video, we are committed to building an inclusive, equitable, and enjoyable streaming experience for all our customers," Raf Soltanovich, the vice president of technology at Prime Video and Amazon Studios said in a statement. "Our library of captioned and audio described content continues to grow, and by leveraging our technological capabilities to create industry-first innovations like Dialogue Boost, we are taking another step to create a more accessible streaming experience."
To use Amazon's Dialogue Boost, navigate to the audio and subtitles menu and click on "English Dialogue Boost: Medium" or "English Dialogue Boost: High."
The feature will become available for some specific Amazon Original programs globally — like "Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan," "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel," and more — before it rolls out more widely. It's available for all Prime Video-supported devices. While Amazon is the first global streaming service to offer this feature, similar features are available on other platforms, like Roku's "speech clarity."
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Cool for people who want it. I read subtitles so that I can watch movies quietly after the kids go to bed.
ReplyDeleteFinally
ReplyDeleteNow all the streaming services need to come to a concensus on overall volume level and we'll really be cooking with gas!
ReplyDeleteso true!!
DeleteY'all. They aren't doing away with subtitles! They are adding an audio feature that improves the voice parts of movies.
ReplyDeleteYou can’t “bye bye subtitles”. Deaf and HoH can’t turn off their deafness. Trust me I know 🙄
ReplyDeleteI am partially deaf, my husband is not. I need the subtitles.
ReplyDeleteI loathe inconsistent volume. I've always got the remote in my hand to adjust for the whispering, then the screaming and chases and explosions, etc.
ReplyDeleteyeah, i feel badly having the volume up high in my apartment when watching movies at Nighy. I always worry bother my neighbors
Deleteyou could always use earbuds. 🤷♀️
DeleteI have used blue tooth when my mom visited so I wasn't disturbing her. I forget that option!
DeleteWhy??? Do you guys have to stop this when it’s not everything I can hear so I read,and reading makes me understand. Why put an end to this era
ReplyDeletethey didn't say they were taking away subtitles- a lot of people need them. They are just tweaking the sound so you can hear the dialogue better
Deletethank you for enlightening me the more
DeleteI love subtitles though
ReplyDeleteno i love my subtitles lol
ReplyDeleteYes! Finally! I’ll likely use this WITH the subtitles that will still be there 😉
ReplyDeletelouder??? what do you mean by that? people use subtitles cuz some cant hear, so they read. I personally read it because I sometimes can't understand what they say cuz it was too fast, So I just read it instead.
ReplyDeleteI keep them on because many of the actors don't enunciate well.
Deletethe voices will be louder but not the background noise. I am going to try it. It’s nice having options so we can each find the one that works best for us.
DeleteWhat about people that use subtitles when they want to keep the volume down not to disturb others? 🤔
ReplyDeleteI have Prime Video Form 3years.
ReplyDeleteOnly 1 film seen.
Netflix it's better
Thank God... I have to rewind it 6 times just to make out what they are saying 🤷🏼♂️
ReplyDeleteWhy would that make me turn subtitles off
ReplyDeletedepends on why a person uses them to begin with
Delete😮
ReplyDeleteI have noted that the number of Prime offerings without sub-titles has increased dramatically over the past few months.
ReplyDeleteI hope it is not because of this. Sub-titles are key for disability access and all content should be provided with them!
Let’s get all content right by providing sub-titles first, before adding limiters to sound-tracks and thinking the job is done!
Yes, limiters cost less and can be done on the fly, but, if your ears don’t get the frequencies, turning the frequencies up won’t do the business!
Isn’t that called Volume!!
ReplyDeletevolume turns up the volume of everything, not just the dialogue
DeleteI'm hearing impaired, so this will be of great benefit to me.
ReplyDeleteNetflix needs this
ReplyDeleteall cable and streaming services need this
DeleteI LOVE SUBTITLES! SOOO MUCH INFORMATION ...wtf? How can this be what masses want? Honestly...get a preoccupation ffs
ReplyDeleteWith all the money these Studios make off of movies you think that they would release the movie without having streaming services rely on doing this
ReplyDeleteWhat about deaf or hard of hearing individuals? This will only cause more issues...they won't be in compliance.
ReplyDeleteAs someone that's hard of hearing, I'm looking forward to this because I miss a good chunk of what's being said in some movies because the voices are too quiet compared to the background noise.
Deleteyou will still be able to use subtitles from what I understand.
Deleteyeah, they didn't say they are getting rid of subtitles (it took them long enough to get them!) They won't take that feature away
DeleteGood keep getting better you’re not that far from out doing Netflix 
ReplyDeleteSo it’s just not me?
ReplyDeleteHow about play speed rate on TV streaming? Only on the app is lame.
Huh? Turn your TV up or the system...
ReplyDeleteTV has always done this with ads
ReplyDeleteWith Ads everything is louder. The plan here is to augment the sound of the dialogue only, so that you don’t turn the volume up, and then have your ears assaulted when there’s a gunshot or an explosion.
DeleteDeaf and people with hearing loss need the subtitles!!
ReplyDeleteMaybe I can finally watch True Detective s3
ReplyDeleteMy TV has this feature and it is about 8 years old.
ReplyDeletei think tv's should have had this feature long ago!
DeleteThis doesn't solve the problem of English accents that are difficult to understand though.
ReplyDeletethen keep using the subtitles. They can't change people's accents
DeleteTHANK YOU!
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ReplyDeletewhat do you mean?
Deletekorean content without subtitles
DeleteEvery streamer needs to offer this, and every production sound mixer needs a hard wake up slap.
ReplyDeleteThis won't work if you're hearing impaired.
ReplyDeletemadness, we still need subtitles, for more language comprehensions from non english speakers, you just cant understand those weird different actors accents.
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