The Audio Engineering Society’s Committee on Broadcast and Online Delivery has updated its loudness website with an ear toward dialogue intelligibility.
Based on the group’s “Improving Dialogue Intelligibilty in Media” report, the AES site now offers what it calls a brief and authoritative introduction to the many reasons why dialogue can’t be understood and ways to improve intelligibility.
Some 50% of viewing is now done using captions and subtitles, AES said, which shows intelligibility is a growing consumer concern.
“When dialogue is not understood, it distracts the listener from being immersed in the story, leading to frustration or channel-changing,” Jim Starzynski, co-chair of the TOC-BOD committee and chair of the TD1009 study group, said.
The site now offers a summary of the topics in AES’s series of technical documents on loudness and intelligibility (TD1006, TD1008, TD1009) and of the AES71 and AES77 standards, which give recommendations for broadcast and online audio and video content.
A new glossary defines loudness and intelligibility terms, including hearing science terminology that may be unfamiliar to audio production professionals.
This story initially ran in TV Tech, sister brand to Radio World.
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