Mumbling TV actors: The heart of the mutter

BBC News ^ | July 16, 2013 | Ben Milne

[EveningStar]

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[Tax-chick]

We use the subtitles. It helps the kids practice reading, too!

[EveningStar]

I use subtitles when they’re available.

[TomGuy]

Muttering and loud background noise or music.

Sometimes, I have to replay a portion of the dialogue several times just to figure out what a character said.

[the OlLine Rebel]

I agree, of course it’s epidemic with everyone, so partly just reflected by the new actors.

To go along with this is realistic whispering in the movie production. Gets so low you can’t tell what’s going on - along with dark shadowy scenes.

[BenLurkin]

And here I thought my hearing was going bad.

[Ditter]

WE watch Longmire on Monday night and the mumbling is the bad. We will run it back several times trying to understand some of the dialog.

[Signalman]

Ozzie Osborne is the king of mumblers. I can only make out about 20 percent of what he says.

[BenLurkin]

"Mmmmbllserga, Skully. "mbbmleffty razzaloh."

[dfwgator]

Don’ You Go Rounin’ Round to Re Ro

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPY-sCiRCeA

[Perdogg]

Daniel Craig is one of them.

[Marie]

I went to an audiologist for this very problem. I had just been turning the TV up and up and up and still couldn’t understand a damn thing anyone was saying.

The audiologist told me to adjust my TV so that the bass was all the way down and the treble was all the way up.

It changed my family’s life. I’d been blowing everyone away with volume and pausing the show every fifteen minutes to ask, “What’d he say?” Now the volume is reasonable and even my hubby says that he can hear things better.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Nearly as annoying as the flashlight idiocy. That is when they walk into a room with the blinds drawn and they turn on their flashlight.

They don't open the blinds, they don't turn on the fricking light, they turn on their flashlights. Apparently they don't actually want to see what is in the room.

[mass55th]

I’m glad I’m not the only one who has a problem with what is being said on tv shows these days. I despise the way they increase the volume for music or special effects sounds, then drop the volume when the characters speak. I find I have to turn the volume up to hear what they’re saying, and then quickly turn it down again when there’s a noise or music. They do this with movies too, and it’s frustrating as all hell. I’ve started watching programs and movies with the subtitles on regularly.

[MondoQueen]

And you know who are the worst offenders. The British. I miss half the words in their shows because either they’re using a phrase which is strictly British or they mumble.

[ansel12]

As something of a flashlight junkie, I especially notice that.

[EveningStar]

Note the source of the article. The Brits don’t like it either. :)

[BenLurkin]

"Rmmbblestiffle, Skully.
Razpootal mumbowlfod."

[bigheadfred]

uh uh uh what about totus