When watching TV, voices and dialogue are often too difficult to understand. I know a lot of people, even if they’re not deaf, who regularly enable Closed His Captions so they don’t miss anything. Many soundbars and some TVs have added various voice enhancement modes to overcome this, but if you’re using shoddy built-in TV speakers, inaudible conversations can get really bad. There is a nature.
With Prime Video, Amazon decided to solve this dilemma at the software level. Today, the company is introducing a new Dialogue Boost mode that can be toggled from any device that offers streaming services. “Dialogue Boost allows you to increase the volume of dialogue to match your background music and effects, creating a more comfortable and accessible viewing experience not found on other global streaming services,” says Amazon. describes the new features in detail in a blog post.
Dialogue Boost is rolling out globally starting today for select English-language Amazon originals.
Instead of applying voice enhancements throughout movies and TV shows, Dialogue Boost uses artificial intelligence to identify specific moments in content where it’s difficult to understand what’s being said. “We then isolate speech patterns and enhance audio for greater clarity in conversation,” the blog post reads. “This AI-based approach provides targeted enhancement to the portion of the dialogue rather than the typical amplification in the center channel of a home theater system.”
You can choose between two options (medium and high) for the strength of the dialogue boost. These settings will appear in the audio/subtitles dropdown menu when viewing content, and the movie or TV show details page will update to show if it supports Dialogue Boost.
And it’s the latter bit where you’ll run into Dialogue Boost’s downside: its availability at launch is fairly limited. became. Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan, The Marvelous Mrs. Maiseland Haremand movies containing big chic, beautiful boyand Be Ricardos Amazon said in a blog post: The feature will be expanded to more titles this year, so hopefully it will spread to a sizable selection of Prime Video’s streaming catalog by the end of 2023.
I haven’t had a chance to try Dialogue Boost yet, but I’m excited to experience the difference this new feature makes. If it achieves its goal, other streamers may follow Amazon’s footsteps.
