This Fire TV Stick feature might be the difference between intelligible dialogue and a hard-to-hear mess.

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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.…