Make Quiet Dialogue in a Video Louder

Make speech and movie dialogue easier to hear with Audials

Sometimes the picture in a video is fine, but the sound is frustrating. The spoken parts are too quiet, while background music, sound effects, or ambient noise are much louder. You turn up the volume to understand the dialogue — and a few seconds later, an explosion, music scene, or loud background sound almost wakes up the whole house.

This problem can happen in many types of videos:

• Movies where the dialogue is too quiet
• Recorded streaming videos with loud music or sound effects
• Screencasts, tutorials, or screen recordings where the speaker is hard to hear
• Smartphone videos with weak voice audio
• Local video files where speech is too low compared to the rest of the soundtrack

With Audials One, you can boost speech in videos on your Windows PC and make dialogue easier to understand — without recording the video again.

Why is dialogue too quiet in some videos?

Quiet speech in videos can have several causes. In movies and shows, the audio mix is often very dynamic. Voices may be mixed quietly, while music, action scenes, sound effects, and background noise are much louder.

In other videos, the problem can come from the recording itself. A microphone may have been too far away, the speaker may have talked too softly, or background noise may have been too strong.

Typical problems include:

• Spoken words are too quiet
• Movie dialogue is hard to understand
• Background music is louder than the voices
• Sound effects overpower the speech
• You have to constantly adjust the volume
• Voices sound buried in the audio mix
• Tutorials or screencasts are difficult to follow
• Smartphone videos have weak or unclear voice audio

This is especially annoying when you watch videos at night, with family nearby, or in an apartment. Turning up the volume helps with the dialogue, but makes every loud scene much too loud.

When speech boost is especially useful

Audials can help in many practical situations where re-recording is not possible or not worth the effort.

Recorded streaming videos

If you recorded a movie, show, documentary, or online video from Netflix, Amazon Prime, Disney+ etc. and the dialogue is too quiet, you can improve the audio afterwards. This is useful when you want to keep the video in your personal media library and make it more comfortable to watch.

Screencasts and tutorials

Maybe you recorded a screen tutorial, product demo, software explanation, webinar, or training video — and only afterwards noticed that your voice is too quiet. Instead of recording everything again, you can boost the speech in the existing video.

Smartphone videos

Smartphone videos often capture background noise, wind, room sound, or music louder than the person speaking. With speech boost, voices can become easier to understand.

Local video files

The problem can also occur in any video file you already have stored locally. If the dialogue or spoken parts are too low, Audials can help improve the audio balance.

How Audials improves quiet dialogue

Audials One can boost speech or movie dialogue in a video by making voices louder compared to the rest of the audio. You can choose how strongly you want to increase the spoken parts.

Depending on the video, this can make it easier to:

• understand dialogue without turning the whole video too loud
• follow tutorials and explanations
• hear voices more clearly in smartphone videos
• watch movies more comfortably at lower volume
• reduce the need to constantly adjust volume

Audials creates a new version of the video with an improved audio track, while keeping your original file available.

How to make dialogue louder in Audials

Now you can watch the video with clearer, louder dialogue while still keeping the original version available.

*Note: Alternatively, you can also start from your Audials video collection. Go to Video -> My Videos, click the three-dot menu of the video, choose Improve Files, and then select Boost Speech. After that, continue with Step 3.

Why this is better than simply turning up the volume

Turning up the volume makes everything louder — not only the voices. That means music, sound effects, background noise, and sudden loud scenes become louder too.

Speech boost is more targeted. It helps improve the spoken parts, so you can understand dialogue more comfortably without raising the entire video volume too much.

This is especially helpful for movies, tutorials, recorded streaming videos, and smartphone clips where the voices are the most important part of the audio.

Make videos easier to understand with Audials One

Quiet dialogue can make even a good video hard to enjoy. Whether you recorded a streaming video, created a screencast, saved a tutorial, filmed a smartphone clip, or simply have a local video file with weak speech audio, Audials can help.

With Audials One, you can boost speech in videos, keep the original file, and create a new version with clearer dialogue.

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