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Volume Down, Subtitles On: 51% of Us Read Along With Our Favorite Shows
09.08.2023 - 16:35 / pcmag.com / Tom Hardy
You're either a subtitles person or you're not. But increasingly, people are. Preply followed up(Opens in a new window) on its subtitle-use survey of Americans from 2022(Opens in a new window) and found a 5% rise, to 58%, in how many people use captioning more than they used to.
Now, just over half (51%) of those surveyed say they use subtitles most of the time. If you’re thinking this habit could be the purview of older folks who are having a hard time hearing—well, 96% of Gen Z survey respondents said they impose words over what they’re watching.
Netflix watchers are using captioning the most; 52% of survey respondents say they turn the feature on while they’re watching. Subtitles help 81% of people better comprehend what they’re watching. A significant part of the time (70%), people use subtitles to understand foreign accents, particularly if a speaker is Scottish, which poses a problem for Outlander fans.
Preply found that Americans have a hard time understanding their own language when someone has a Scottish accent (47%), an Irish accent (20%), a British accent (13%), a South African accent (12%), an Australian accent (5%), and even a Southern US accent (3%). So those who watching Derry Girls, Downton Abbey, and Ozark are adjusting their settings to follow along.
Background music is a reason 61% of viewers give for not being able to hear dialogue in shows and movies, along with muddled audio (15%). And a lot of streaming content was either created for theater speakers or mixed to fit the varying specs between streamers(Opens in a new window). Adding to the problem: the variations in television and tablet speakers.
Finally, a quarter of those who turn on subtitles do so because a specific actor is hard to understand. We're looking at you, Tom Hardy. His character Bane's voice in The Dark Knight Rises might be Hardy’s most infamously baffling choice, but even when he's speaking without a mask, audiences find him mostly incomprehensible(Opens in a new window).
If you're a subtitle person, can we interest you in our list of our favorite foreign-language TV shows on Netflix?
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