What are the audio accessibility options found on Prime Video?
What are the audio accessibility options found on Prime Video?
Prime Video offers a wide variety of audio dub languages, but are they found on every title?
The lineup of shows on Prime Video is truly heroic. The streamer carries tens of thousands of TV shows and movies, with a huge selection of licensed titles as well as originals. Its library spans just about every genre under the sun, and best of all it comes free as a benefit of an Amazon Prime subscription, so you’ll be able to enjoy fast shipping and other benefits with your subscription if you don’t just want Prime Video by itself.
With all that choice available, however, you might be wondering if you can change up your audio languages with a Prime Video subscription as well. The answer is a resounding yes, and we’ll go into detail about how to switch your audio dubs and which languages are available as well.
What you need to know about audio accessibility on Prime Video
How to change language dubs on Prime Video
Switching up your language dubs on Prime Video is an easy matter. All you have to do is start playback on the show or movie you want to watch, then pause it and find the Subtitles and Audio button. You’ll find this button in the top-right corner of the playback controls on the web, as well as the Prime Video mobile and smart TV apps.
After that, it’s simply a matter of picking a language to watch in. Do this, click the language you pick, and resume playback to watch the chosen show or movie in the language of your choice.
The language menu on Prime Video. Click to enlarge.
What languages are available on Prime Video?
Prime Video offers English-language options that most other streamers don’t: namely, English with medium and high Dialogue boosts so you can hear the words being spoken more clearly. In addition, Prime Video offers English with audio descriptions.
Other languages available include Arabic, Basque, Catalan, Czech, Dutch, Filipino, French (Canada), French (Spanish), Galician, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kannada, Magyar, Malayalam, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Romanian, Spanish (Latin American), Spanish (Spain), Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, and Vietnamese.
Are all languages available on all Prime Video titles?
No, Prime Video’s language options will vary from title to title. Original shows and movies on the streamer are more likely to have more language dubs available, but this is just a rule of thumb to keep in mind. Check the specific title you want to stream on Prime Video to see what language dubs can be found on the service.
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