5 ms·
Interesting Auto-Dub feature.
by ddtaylor 2y ago
Interesting Auto-Dub feature.
- antirez 2y agoIndeed. YouTube is rolling this out to more and more folks, and it gets really interesting as you can kinda produce videos in your language but still have an international audience. The quality is not outstanding as the voice is a bit robotic, but still... In my channel even if I don't yet have the feature enabled, just because of subtitles auto-translation, I'm seeing more and more foreign subscribers.
- idiotsecant 2y agoSeriously. We get so jaded by problems and over-hype of what we collectively call 'AI' but this is something that would have seemed like impossible futuretech 10 years ago.
- GuB-42 2y agoYes, that's cool, however, I would like not to be forced auto-translations from languages I understand. I am French and this is my primary language, but I understand English and Google knows that (it is in my account preferences). So why do I get videos auto-translated from English into French, with a significant loss in quality. It is particularly bad for titles, the translations are terrible and I can't get YouTube to show me the untranslated title. I probably could set YouTube to use English instead of French, but then, I would have French videos translated into English, which is even worse.
- TonyTrapp 2y agoIt's absolutely infuriating. It could be such an awesome accessibility feature if it wasn't force-enabled by default. But what we get instead is YouTube engineers assuming that everyone just speaks a single language and needs auto-translations on every video. For every channel where this feature is enabled, I have to keep switching back to the original English audio track on every single video because YouTube knows that just because my primary browser language is set to German (the secondary language being English, btw), I am incapable of understanding the original audio track, of course.
- antirez 2y agoI believe you can disable it clicking on the gear.
- TonyTrapp 2y agoOn every. single. video. again. and. again. They don't remember your choice. And it keeps the auto-translated video title, so if that one is garbage there is extra work involved in figuring out what the original title meant to say, too.
- antirez 2y agoYep, it's a terrible materialization of a theoretically awesome idea. Both because of these details and because of the robotic tone of the voice compared to the demos they had released.
- bobsmooth 2y agoClick the gear icon.
- new_user_final 2y agoThere are so many realistic text to voice project shared on HN. Why YouTube is using robotic voice, and it sounds irritating and I can't listen to it more than a minute.
- anamexis 2y agoI don't know, I would prefer such things to be slightly robotic over them being in the uncanny valley.
- svachalek 2y agoIt's been years since Google demoed their shocking AI voice calls, and still this seems to be the state of things. It's hard to separate the words from the robotic voice here but the state of Google Translate has also been really sad the last few times I've tried it, given the fantastic translation that most LLMs can provide these days.
- SR2Z 2y agoIt's almost certainly because of the scale at which this type of thing needs to run. There are a lot of YouTube videos.
- bobsmooth 2y agoThe only thing that makes sense is that good models require a lot of compute, probably more than the transcoding that happens when you upload.
- polytely 2y agoIt's interesting but I wish I could turn it off. would be nice to have a button "dub this for me" instead of being forced to have all the content translated into 1 language, which is infuriating if you understand multiple. Edit: aha you can switch back to the original audio track
- Gravityloss 2y agoThis guy's German is very clear, and it's a joy to listen to the presentation. What is the accent? I can see he's based near Münster. I can recommend listening in original language if you know it even a little bit.
- shmeeed 2y agoIt's a bavarian/Munich accent.
- matli 2y agoYes, but I would prefer the original audio with translated captions. Why isn't that possible? If they can auto-dub, it should be even easier to give us translated captions.