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Forget subtitles: YouTube now dubs videos with AI-generated voices
- _8j50 3y agoI personally hate dubbing, i prefer to hear the original speake's tone of voice and pronounciation. Subtitles also help learn a language. But even in english I always turn them on, it really helps to see the spelling of words. Like I was watching "the witcher" a few days ago and I liked knowing "dickstra" is actually "djikstra" or "skoiate" is "scoi'atel" there are many benefits to subtitles, but it is a subjective preference.
- janosdebugs 3y agoAnnecdotal evidence: on a recently-launched YouTube channel (10k+ views so far) we have 40% of the views with English subtitles. 58% use no subtitles. 30-ish % of views come from English speaking countries. (We manually upload subtitles.) However, I would very much appreciate being able to upload a second audio track instead of AI generated dubbing.
- semi 3y agoI saw a video on coffee tasting that had a second audio track without slurping sounds. so I don't know how widely available the feature is but YouTube does have some version of uploading alternative audio tracks
- janosdebugs 3y agoHoly smokes, you are right! It's hidden under subtitles! Thank you! https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/13338784?hl=en https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/13338784?hl=en
- anonzzzies 3y agoI definitely don’t prefer dubbing over subtitles. A part of acting is the voice.
- stuaxo 3y agoI can't wait for some hilarious dubs to come out.
- meltyness 3y agoJust like their auto caption / translate, it'll be free, you won't be able to pay for it, and it only work on Google-approved viewpoints.