Amazon has just added a new feature to Prime Video that threatens to become a revolution in the world of streaming. baptized as Dialogue Boost, will allow you to adjust the volume of the characters’ dialogues without affecting the rest of the sounds in the scene in question. A good way to avoid there being times when we don’t know very well what the protagonists of the film or series that we are watching are saying.
First on Prime Video
From Amazon they assure that Prime Video is “the world’s first streaming service to offer this feature“and part of an artificial intelligence approach to be able to modify the sound channels of the content that we are watching at that moment. To do so, you simply have to access the section of the series in which you can choose the language of the audio and There you will see several options depending on how much you want to modify the volume of the dialogues.
The downside is that so far it has only been incorporated into a handful of titles like the series ‘Jack Ryan’ or the movie ‘The great love sickness’. Of course, the plan is to expand it throughout the year to many more titles to offer a distinctive experience compared to other streaming platforms. Let us hope that it is not also used as an excuse for an in principle inevitable price rise.
For my part, I think that this added can be very useful on titles with questionable sound mix, but also that it can become a double-edged sword and that some viewers focus only on the dialogues and marginalize the rest of the sound component of the work they are watching, without forgetting how this can affect the artistic vision of certain titles . Because the music and the rest of the sounds are not there by chance or to annoy the public…
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