Amazon Prime Video announced Tuesday a new dialogue boost feature that allows viewers to increase the volume of character dialogue. movie and TV programThe feature was originally marketed as a way to help hearing-impaired viewers by making actors’ voices louder and reducing background noise, but Amazon’s announcement made it available to a more general audience as well. acknowledged to be helpful.
The company clarified on its site that Dialogue Boost will be available to all Prime Video viewers on any device. news blog It will be the first streaming service to offer this feature and will be available on select Amazon Originals worldwide. The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and Haremas well as movies big chic and Being Ricardos.
Dialogue Boost is an AI-based approach that eliminates questions viewers might ask each other, such as “What did that character say?” artificial intelligence First, identify the parts of the movie or show where dialogue is the hardest to hear. This is especially true if the volume of the action sequences or effects is too loud, or the background music is too loud. The audio is separated and louder and clearer, so you don’t have to keep the remote’s volume buttons on standby all the time. The idea is to make boosted dialog tracks accessible to those who don’t have fancy home theater setups that allow for a separate center channel.
The move to include Dialogue Boost, paradoxically, came after improvements in microphone technology paved the way for more natural—that is, more mumbling—performances for actors. Most of us at Gizmodo watch with subtitles, regardless of how keen our hearing is.
According to Amazon, there are currently about 100 original titles and seasons with D.Dialogue BMore titles will be added to oost in the future. It’s unclear if there are plans to eventually expand functionality beyond the original content.
Prime Video users can access dialogue boost during playback by selecting the subtitles and audio dropdown feature and selecting either English dialogue boost: medium or English dialogue boost: high.
