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The dubs are not replacing the actual audio track. Both tracks are available if you want the original because you understand that language. You can just pick us
by superkuh 1y ago
The dubs are not replacing the actual audio track. Both tracks are available if you want the original because you understand that language. You can just pick using the options menu (the gear).
The problem is that people are picking and then youtube is ignoring that on future videos and reloads instead of storing the preference.
The problem is not the availability of the auto-dubs as an option, which are undeniably great and helpful when you don't understand the language. I agree re: entertainment movies, dubs are bad. But sometimes in video media, often in fact, the speech is not about the person emoting but instead about what they are saying (ie, documentaries, reviews, etc).
- tsimionescu 1y agoYou can still listen to the original audio and look at subtitles if you don't understand the language. It's so dehumanizing to auto generate a replacement of the original voice. I would really hate to know that I went through the trouble of recording and sharing something for free and people were listening to an AI rendition of what I was saying.
- superkuh 1y agoYeah. I personally self-host my videos that I send to people on IRC/email/etc. Easy solution if you don't like what a free corporate service is doing. It would be nice if Alphabet's Google's Youtube also offered an option to disable it for one's own account's videos. But I will never agree that auto-translations are a bad thing. They open the world up beyond language barriers. And that's good. Just because "AI" is involved does not make it bad, even if you're sick of it being shoved down your throat in contexts like Tik-Instagram-whatever.