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[Pejo]

Tired of ultra quiet dialogue in a touching whisper scene followed by INSANELY LOUD MUSIC OR EXPLOSIONS IMMEDIATELY AFTER?!

Apparently Amazon is doing something about it.

Amazon’s New Tool Adjusts Sound So You Can Actually Understand Movie and TV Dialogue

Amazon's "Dialogue Boost" uses AI to increase the volume of speech relative to background music and effects.

www.indiewire.com

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.”

This is the exact type of thing that make me excited for the future of AI along with uncensoring JAV videos. Things to make people's lives better, even in small ways, that can be automated and programmed around. Alternatively, Hollywood sound mixers could get a fucking clue I guess, but that seems unlikely considering the history of cinema.

 

[NeoIkaruGAF]

Paging Christopher Nolan.

 

[AJUMP23]

The older I get the more I need it.

 

[AJUMP23]

Paging Christopher Nolan.

Nolan will just make the score even louder so you can't hear anything.

 

[Esca]

Awesome. I mostly watch movies at home with my headphones cause the sound is much more even in them next to my soundbar and woofer. I anyways have subtitles on to when not using my headphones so I can actually hear the damn dialog. Every person I know complains about this shit. Shouldn't be an issue to start with, wasn't in the past

 

[Spaceman292]

That's a good fackin idea. People are so bad at mixing dialogue.

 

[Grildon Tundy]

Cool. Still going to watch everything with closed captions on.

 

[Pejo]

Cool. Still going to watch everything with closed captions on.

 

[Wildebeest]

If only the production companies could hire a human to sort it out, so this wasn't necessary. Some sort of engineer who is a specialist in audio or something, I don't know, maybe I sound crazy.

 

[Ownage]

Tired of ultra quiet dialogue in a touching whisper scene followed by INSANELY LOUD MUSIC OR EXPLOSIONS IMMEDIATELY AFTER?!

Apparently Amazon is doing something about it.

Amazon’s New Tool Adjusts Sound So You Can Actually Understand Movie and TV Dialogue

Amazon's "Dialogue Boost" uses AI to increase the volume of speech relative to background music and effects.

www.indiewire.com

This is the exact type of thing that make me excited for the future of AI along with uncensoring JAV videos. Things to make people's lives better, even in small ways, that can be automated and programmed around. Alternatively, Hollywood sound mixers could get a fucking clue I guess, but that seems unlikely considering the history of cinema.

I've been using closed captioning for the last year or so because I can't hear dialogue from films. This trend sucks. I'm far from deaf.

 

[poppabk]

If only the production companies could hire a human to sort it out, so this wasn't necessary. Some sort of engineer who is a specialist in audio or something, I don't know, maybe I sound crazy.

I think that is the problem, they get carried away with what they can do, and I am sure in their soundproof room with best in class audio equipment it sounds awesome. It's like how ever since OLED and HDR became popular no-one in TV shows and movies ever turns on the fucking lights.

 

[flying_sq]

It's kind of wild how crazy mixing can be, I run a home theater set up, and even having a dedicated center channel doesn't help with some movies. For most movies it's fine, but then I get one that has either the dialogue, or the center way too low, and I have to bump up the db on it just to forget and get blasted by my center on the next movie.

 

[BlackTron]

I used to use an EQ trying to solve this and wonder what's wrong with me/my setup. Now I've adapted to normal life and just use captions + constantly adjust the volume.

Good to know this is so much of a real problem it's not just me and Amazon put AI to work on it.

 

[GymWolf]

So like turning on clear voice PRO in my oled tv?

 

[NekoFever]

It's like how ever since OLED and HDR became popular no-one in TV shows and movies ever turns on the fucking lights.

That’s more down to modern digital cameras having far, far better low light performance than even the best film cameras. Filmmakers can suddenly get a (barely) usable image from a candlelit room or moonlit night and are overdoing it on the new toy. I’m hoping it’s a fad and we’ll move away from “naturalistic” lighting to something more cinematic again.

 

[sankt-Antonio]

Problem is, Netflix/Amazon audio engineers learned their trade in Movie production, for cinema in Dolby / Dolby Atmos etc. There you can mix the center channel, that mostly only has voice on it, nicely.

For a 2.0 channel mix-down everything turns to shit. Who knows who's even doing these mix-downs.

I have a Atmos Set-up, and can tune the center channel to my liking and hear voices crytal clear.

 

[Methos#1975]

Most modern receivers already have settings for this

 

[CGNoire]

Or.....you know.......you could just fix the problem going forward.

 

[CGNoire]

Is that from Baki?

 

[Laptop1991]

I've noticed with more modern TV and film stuff, the music and sound effects are so loud now, you can't hear the actors dialogue, i would even want an option to turn them off especially the ambient music, it's so loud lol.