Dialogue is an important part of any movie or TV show, but it isn't always as clear as we would like. Amazon's Fire TV Stick has a solution.
This Fire TV Stick feature might be the difference between intelligible dialogue and a hard-to-hear mess. Have you ever increased your TV's volume while watching a movie because the dialogue is too quiet, only to get blasted by a loud action sequence a few seconds later? Well, you're not alone. Plenty of people complain about modern movies and TV shows having unclear dialogue, making speech hard to understand.
Part of this is down to the shooting process itself. According to Hollywood dialogue editor Austin Olivia Kendrick, modern microphones let actors perform more naturally, but this also means actors are more likely to mumble or speak softly, making speech harder to understand. Older recording equipment often demanded that actors stand in more deliberate positions and project their voices clearly.
To combat this, many manufacturers, including Amazon, offer a dialogue enhancement feature that makes voices clearer without requiring you to crank up the volume. If you use a compatible Amazon Fire TV device, go to Settings > Display & Audio > Audio Settings and turn on Dialogue Boost. Available levels of dialogue boost include Low, Medium, High, Enhanced and Heightened.
Amazon's Dialogue Boost feature debuted in 2022 on the Prime Video subscription service. Amazon says the Fire TV Stick implementation uses AI models compressed to less than one percent of their original size, allowing them to run on-device and work in real time. This means Dialogue Boost on Fire TV works with streaming services beyond Prime Video.
Source: Engadget · Summarized by HeadlinesBriefing