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Yes, 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 unde
by GuB-42 2y ago
Yes, 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.