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How to use dialogue-only subtitles on Netflix, and why you should
Regardless of what streaming service I might use, I don’t hit play on a movie or TV show until I’ve enabled subtitles, even if I understand the language.
It’s not just that I suffer from mild hearing loss. Volume settings and the actual audio quality of some titles get in the way of hearing what the characters are saying. The dialogue is extremely important, and I don’t want to keep rewinding to figure out what they said.
That means I’m just like about fifty percent of Americans who watch content with subtitles most of the time, a statistic that Netflix quoted in its newest feature announcement. The streamer just introduced a new subtitle option that many people will appreciate, including me.
Netflix will start showing dialogue-only subtitle options on some shows. This will probably replace the current captioning option most of us use, which covers all the sounds in a movie or TV show, not just the lines spoken by the characters.
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