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X-Ray Recaps generates spoiler-free text summaries of TV show episodes and seasons for Prime Video viewers, personalized to the exact point where they stopped watching. The feature launched in November 2024 on Fire TV and uses generative AI to analyze video content, dialogue, and subtitles.
Details
The system is powered by Amazon Bedrock foundation models and custom models trained on Amazon SageMaker. It analyzes video segments together with subtitles and dialogue to produce descriptions of key events, characters, and plot developments. Amazon Bedrock Guardrails are applied to prevent spoilers from appearing in the output. In early 2025, the feature was briefly paused after errors surfaced, including an incorrect summary of the show Fallout.
Products affected
Prime Video (Fire TV)X-Ray
Sources & Evidence
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Trace Foundation. (2026). Prime Video: X-Ray Recaps generates spoiler-free text summaries of TV show episodes and seasons for Prime Video viewers, personalized to the exact point where they stopped watching. The feature launched in November 2024 on Fire TV and uses generative AI to analyze video content, dialogue, and subtitles (data as of 2026-03-20) [Data set record]. AI Trace. https://www.aitrace.org/r/practice/acf196b5-9296-4fcd-b92a-7bf597a3d70b. Accessed October 14, 2026.
- Stable link
- https://www.aitrace.org/r/practice/acf196b5-9296-4fcd-b92a-7bf597a3d70b
- Data as of
- March 20, 2026
- Last verified
- April 6, 2026
Other practices by Prime Video
OtherWhen viewers pause or tap the screen while watching on Prime Video, a feature called X-Ray displays information about the actors currently on screen, the music playing, and behind-the-scenes trivia — using a combination of AI and human curation backed by IMDb data.OtherDialogue Boost is a Prime Video feature that uses AI to identify specific moments in a film or show where dialogue is difficult to hear over background sound — and then selectively increases the clarity of speech at those moments only. It launched in April 2023 and is now available in seven languages.Customer SvcAlexa+, Amazon's redesigned AI assistant built on large language models, can understand conversational requests to find content on Prime Video — such as "show me movies about dogs and their owners" — and control playback with voice commands. It became free for Prime subscribers after exiting early access.
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