3 ms·

My computer is set to English even though I'm German, and sometimes Youtube will treat me to this really uncanny machine voice with really weird phrases because

My computer is set to English even though I'm German, and sometimes Youtube will treat me to this really uncanny machine voice with really weird phrases because it auto-translated some German video or advert. Lidl is worth it, ja!

FinnLobsien 1y ago
I absolutely hate this. I have the exact same thing. Even if the technology was good, I speak both languages and want to see the original. Why is it so hard to just add something as a setting/feature and offer it to people without forcing it on the user?
- avhception 1y ago
  I wonder if Lidl or the other advertisers know and approve of this.
  - FinnLobsien 1y ago
    I mean it's probably somewhere, deep in the ToS but pretty sure if you showed that machine voice to the advertisers they wouldn't approve.
- preisschild 1y ago
  This would also be good for movies :D I can speak german, I don't need forced subtitles for the nazis
  - jiehong 1y ago
    Sometimes we do, when actors actually don’t speak German very well (or Russian or Chinese or French)
- bunderbunder 1y ago
  > Why is it so hard to just add something as a setting/feature and offer it to people without forcing it on the user? Office politics. Google is famously "performance-driven", so the manager in charge of that feature needs usage metrics to be high for the sake of their own career. (Speculating, of course.)
  - FinnLobsien 1y ago
    That's a funny idea—if the KPI was boosting adoption of a feature and the PM just made that feature the default and suddenly adoption was through the roof. The sad part is we can't rule that out.
qiine 1y ago
its especially funny with asmr video, not gonna lie the first time I was beyond confused
numpad0 1y ago
idoundernotstandwhothisfeatureisdivisiblebytwoinproductionandi just dislike video and move on. I'm guessing Google wants uploader penalized, and I do feel sorry but it's not my problem.
pjmlp 1y ago
I thought I was the only one getting such a messy ads. At least I know I didn't mess anything on my WebOS TV.
dgb23 1y ago
Same here. My native tongue is German, I live in Switzerland, but my settings on all devices are English. I do this on purpose, because I find everything is more searchable. I don't even know any German terms for most technical things I might search or look for. So even if the automatic translations were good, which they aren't, this would be a non-feature. My browser already tells them what my preferred language is. Just use it.
- netsharc 1y ago
  Living in Zurich (German part of Switzerland for those who don't know), Windows 10 in English, the built-in Microsoft Store used to offer content in... French. Now it's a mix of German and English, e.g. 1 heading is "Spiele-Bestseller", and the next is "Best selling apps". And prices displayed as "28,00 CHF" (correct would be to use the decimal point). Like Van Halen's brown M&Ms, it just shows how sloppily this thing is programmed: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/brown-out/ https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/brown-out/

FinnLobsien 1y ago

I absolutely hate this. I have the exact same thing. Even if the technology was good, I speak both languages and want to see the original. Why is it so hard to just add something as a setting/feature and offer it to people without forcing it on the user?

avhception 1y ago
I wonder if Lidl or the other advertisers know and approve of this.
- FinnLobsien 1y ago
  I mean it's probably somewhere, deep in the ToS but pretty sure if you showed that machine voice to the advertisers they wouldn't approve.
preisschild 1y ago
This would also be good for movies :D I can speak german, I don't need forced subtitles for the nazis
- jiehong 1y ago
  Sometimes we do, when actors actually don’t speak German very well (or Russian or Chinese or French)
bunderbunder 1y ago
> Why is it so hard to just add something as a setting/feature and offer it to people without forcing it on the user? Office politics. Google is famously "performance-driven", so the manager in charge of that feature needs usage metrics to be high for the sake of their own career. (Speculating, of course.)
- FinnLobsien 1y ago
  That's a funny idea—if the KPI was boosting adoption of a feature and the PM just made that feature the default and suddenly adoption was through the roof. The sad part is we can't rule that out.

qiine 1y ago

its especially funny with asmr video, not gonna lie the first time I was beyond confused

numpad0 1y ago

idoundernotstandwhothisfeatureisdivisiblebytwoinproductionandi just dislike video and move on. I'm guessing Google wants uploader penalized, and I do feel sorry but it's not my problem.

pjmlp 1y ago

I thought I was the only one getting such a messy ads. At least I know I didn't mess anything on my WebOS TV.

dgb23 1y ago

Same here. My native tongue is German, I live in Switzerland, but my settings on all devices are English. I do this on purpose, because I find everything is more searchable. I don't even know any German terms for most technical things I might search or look for. So even if the automatic translations were good, which they aren't, this would be a non-feature. My browser already tells them what my preferred language is. Just use it.

netsharc 1y ago
Living in Zurich (German part of Switzerland for those who don't know), Windows 10 in English, the built-in Microsoft Store used to offer content in... French. Now it's a mix of German and English, e.g. 1 heading is "Spiele-Bestseller", and the next is "Best selling apps". And prices displayed as "28,00 CHF" (correct would be to use the decimal point). Like Van Halen's brown M&Ms, it just shows how sloppily this thing is programmed: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/brown-out/ https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/brown-out/