‘I can’t hear without my subtitles.’ It doesn’t sound like it should make sense, but to many of us who watch movies and TV shows, it’s perfectly coherent. It’s so relatable that it has become a viral meme. We’ve previously unpacked some of the technical reasons why movie dialogue has become more difficult to understand in recent years. Without subtitles, dialogue is often muffled, downright incomprehensible, or overshadowed by background music, no matter how high you turn the volume
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