How to normalize TV volume? (reduce loud ads, etc)

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I wasn’t exactly sure what you meant so I googled it…
(The goal of loudness normalization procedures (like IHAFF) is to present the amplified frequency-specific and overall loudness of sounds for the hearing -impaired client so that those sounds replicate the loudness levels perceived by normal- hearing (unaided) listeners.)

great question, how about not just for TV… also normal every day environment …

I’ve been wearing HA’s for about 7 yrs. and actually needed them 10 yrs. sooner… when my audi is tweaking my sound/volume settings he then will ask me how does that sound?? I tell him that I wish I knew how someone with good hearing actually hears different sounds

Actually, I’m referring to the more traditional definition:

Audio normalization4

Audio normalization is the application of a constant amount of gain to an audio recording to bring the amplitude to a target level (the norm). Because the same amount of gain is applied across the entire recording, the signal-to-noise ratio and relative dynamics are unchanged. Normalization is one of the functions commonly provided by a digital audio workstation. Two principal types of audio normalization exist. Peak normalization adjusts the recording based on the highest signal level presen...

Yeah in my book Normalization just raised the volume of the selected audio so that the maximum is at the true maximum (like, uses all the bits so to speak). What commercials do is compress the heck out of everything then make sure that the result is normalized. So basically, everything is loud. This is akin to the “loudness wars” in music.

Ironically, the compression that’s used to make commercials louder is also the primary algorithm in hearing aids to help us hear better: reduced dynamic range, and in general the boosting of volume … so in a sense we are living our whole lives in a commercial. That should get us some sympathy haha.