Amazon Prime is getting AI-powered Video Recaps for TV Shows

Amazon has announced a new feature for Prime Video, called Video Recaps. It is an AI-powered feature that will provide summaries of TV Shows.

Amazon had introduced a feature called X-ray Recaps in November 2024, which is also powered by AI. It generates text summaries of episodes and seasons of TV shows, and keeps it spoiler-free. The company says that the idea behind such features is to help viewers recall what happened previously in an episode, or a prior season, without having to rewatch the entire thing.

The new Video Recaps feature builds upon X-Ray Recaps, but in a more entertaining way, aka a visual form. As for how it works, Amazon says that Video Recaps involves multiple steps, it uses AI to analyze the most important plot points in a show. It also analyzes the character arcs to discover pivotal moments. Then it takes the video clips, and adds snippets of dialogue, audio effects and music. All of this data is combined with a synchronized voice narration, i.e., an AI-generated voiceover, to create a video summary for the show that the user can watch.

Video Recaps is currently available in beta, and is only supported for select English-language Prime Original series in the U.S. The list includes Fallout, Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan, Upload, Bosch, and The Rig.

To watch a Video Recap for a show, switch to the next season in one of the shows mentioned above. You should see a recap button on the show's detail page. Select it, and you can access the Video Recaps (or X-Ray Recaps) for that series.

Amazon's announcement says that "customers can access the experience on their living room device". Weird, why not just say it is only available for TVs? Anyway, it plans to expand the feature to other devices in the coming months.

Amazon recently announced Vega OS, a Linux-based OS for Fire TV devices. But it's not moving away from Android just yet, and the company is planning to block piracy apps on Fire TV.

What do you think about AI-generated Video Recaps?

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