But the sound always seems to be too low, and I can’t hear anything or it's too loud and all distorted.
If you can relate to this, I am happy to report that help is on the way.
InideWire reported that Raise your hand if you’ve found yourself recently rewinding your movie or episode back 10 seconds over and over again to pick up a line of dialogue you simply can’t make out, only to give in and finally turn on the dang closed captions. It’s a topic that’s been Googled and explained to death, and Amazon is finally doing something about it.
Introducing: Dialogue Boost, a new function from Amazon that lets you actually understand what’s being said on its shows.
The AI-powered feature will let you increase the volume of dialogue relative to background music and effects, and you can customize it to your personal preference, all to create a “more comfortable and accessibly viewing experience.”
Amazon says Dialogue Boost was designed with the hard-of-hearing audience in mind to make their programming more accessible. But this has been a complaint for many audiences in the digital era and should help address a more pervasive problem. For instance, say you’re watching “Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan.” You presumably now won’t be in a position
where you’ve cranked the volume to hear what John Krasinski is saying, only for your eardrums to be blown out when there’s a sudden loud explosion. And we’re hoping this doesn’t become an issue like “Motion Smoothing” on your TV where filmmakers plead with you to watch their movie “the way it was intended to be seen.”
For now, this feature is only available on a few select movies and shows, but they’ll roll it all out soon enough… so don’t order that hearing aid, just yet!
