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   Miakoda (hellomiakoda@pdx.social)'s status on Friday, 25-Apr-2025 20:37:12 JST Miakoda

   This PS5 update included Audio Focus mode. It's supposed to make speech easier to process.
   I played the demo sound. Same as expected. Voices burried under running, and gunfie. Then I turned on Audio Focus.
   Why am I starting to cry? It's so much easier to pick out the voices! And it did it without ruining the other sounds.

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     Miakoda (hellomiakoda@pdx.social)'s status on Friday, 25-Apr-2025 20:47:22 JST Miakoda

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     It works on PS4 games on PS5. I tried it on Dirt 4 just now. I have never heard my co-driver this easily. 😭
     Why am I this emotional over an audio setting?

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     Miakoda (hellomiakoda@pdx.social)'s status on Friday, 25-Apr-2025 21:37:44 JST Miakoda

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     • CynAq🤘

     @CynAq
     It seems to have an affect on all content, but non-game sounds it sounds more generically altered.

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     CynAq🤘 (cynaq@beige.party)'s status on Friday, 25-Apr-2025 21:37:45 JST CynAq🤘

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     @hellomiakoda it could be as simple as a clever EQ trick they figured out by machine learning.

     It could also be stem separating the voices from other sounds and doing a remix on the fly with an EQ plus a very fast attack and release compressor on other sounds sidechained to the voice line but I don’t know if this can be done real time.

     Is this only for games or does it work on every sound played through the device?

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     Miakoda (hellomiakoda@pdx.social)'s status on Friday, 25-Apr-2025 22:02:53 JST Miakoda

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     • CynAq🤘

     @CynAq
     There's a few profiles. Boost Voice, Boost Low pitch, Boost High Pitch, and Boost Quiet Sounds. You can't mix them, but each has 3 strength levels. Weak, in Boost Speech, seems to preserve the non-boosted sounds very well, but Strong murders the bass.

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     CynAq🤘 (cynaq@beige.party)'s status on Friday, 25-Apr-2025 22:02:54 JST CynAq🤘

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     @hellomiakoda oh, interesting. Maybe with games it uses a different mix depending on which file the sound is playing from (voice and non-voice)