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Why would I want this? I watched a translated YouTube video and it was great. If I don't want the translated sound track there's a button right there in settin

by ars 1y ago

Why would I want this? I watched a translated YouTube video and it was great. If I don't want the translated sound track there's a button right there in settings to change it. Why do I need this extension?

charcircuit 1y ago
For example if you listen to music in a different language you may be familiar with the foriegn name of a song, but not the translation of it. This makes things confusing. Also for the sound track sometimes there isn't even an option to disable it depending on what experiment or client you are using.
sebtron 1y ago
Automatically translated titles are often just wrong and misleading, and there is no way to turn this "feature" off. If you understand more than one language, you'll get half of the videos sloppily translated for no reason. There is no way to tell YouTube not to do this for specific languages. It is beyond annoying.
vcvbcv 1y ago
I guess this extension is really aimed at multilingual viewers who don’t want English (or any language they already know) automatically translated into their native tongue. A better solution would be a ‘blacklist’ of languages you understand—so YouTube only auto‑translates from languages you don’t speak, and always leaves familiar languages in their original form.
- Tomte 1y ago
  > who don’t want English (or any language they already know) automatically translated into their native tongue. It‘s even the other way around!
- Nullabillity 1y ago
  > A better solution would be a ‘blacklist’ of languages you understand—so YouTube only auto‑translates from languages you don’t speak, and always leaves familiar languages in their original form. A better solution would have been to just not ship this disaster of a "feature" in the first place. I wouldn't want my browser to automatically translate every page I go to (without my consent!) either, and that would've been a much easier job!
Tomte 1y ago
I‘m German, watching a German creator in a German-language recording. Only that YouTube decides to use their Mickey Mouse sounding AI voice to deliver an English audio track. Not every time, but at least a third of the time. I have to hunt for the audio setting each time, because you cannot turn off AI voices permanently. Tell me again how I‘m wrong.
- weinzierl 1y ago
  I only love it when their Mickey Mouse sounding AI voice turns ads into a real clown show. Imagine how they spent big money developing a slogan for their brand or product and then AI comes around with a near literal translation that makes no sense whatsoever and that is what people hear. That is the only positive side, otherwise it is what you wrote. A real pain.
  - Agentlien 1y ago
    Reminds me of when Amazon came to Sweden and had machine translated product names - including for movies and games. A friend showed me that the latest game I had worked on was hilariously mistranslated. It's originally "Need For Speed: Payback" but got translated to "behöver du hastighet: återbetalning" which would be more like "do you need speed: reimbursement"
- Tepix 1y ago
  When using Brave, the audio setting does not exist on the Youtube website. I have to go into iOS settings and change the language there. Unbelievable.
hnthrowaway_423 1y ago
>People make free things for other people who need it >"Why would I want this?"
- johannes1234321 1y ago
  Having the option is fine. But showing me bad English translations of video titles from my native language without option to disable is stupid. Defaulting to auto dubbed videos for a language I speak and having to hit that small button each time is annoying. It's cool for some stuff, when I don't speak the language, and where the content is valuable, but it has to be an option. (Also, I for one pay for YouTube premium)
cortesoft 1y ago
Some people speak multiple languages, and don't need every video not in their language translated.
seszett 1y ago
I don't know, maybe I didn't look hard enough but the last time it happened to me I couldn't find a way to hear the original. It was a video in French over accents, so the automatic English translation kind of made it useless. I'm French anyway, why translate it to English? I don't even live in an English-speaking country either (not that translating to Dutch would have been better).
numpad0 1y ago
Because displaced honorifics alone is too much. Translated audio railroads is match was a draw. worse.
- shmeeed 1y ago
  That's the perfect example! I honestly still can't tell what "match was draw" is supposed to say, but that's a really good match for the actual experience.
  - numpad0 1y ago
    "even". I know it's pushing a bit too far, but if you could just do with a bit of squinting, what's the problem :p
nurumaik 1y ago
How about "if you want the translated sound track there's a button for you in settings to change it" instead?
gfdujdufituj 1y ago
There is no option on mobile.

by ars 1y ago

charcircuit 1y ago

For example if you listen to music in a different language you may be familiar with the foriegn name of a song, but not the translation of it. This makes things confusing. Also for the sound track sometimes there isn't even an option to disable it depending on what experiment or client you are using.

sebtron 1y ago

Automatically translated titles are often just wrong and misleading, and there is no way to turn this "feature" off. If you understand more than one language, you'll get half of the videos sloppily translated for no reason. There is no way to tell YouTube not to do this for specific languages. It is beyond annoying.

vcvbcv 1y ago

I guess this extension is really aimed at multilingual viewers who don’t want English (or any language they already know) automatically translated into their native tongue. A better solution would be a ‘blacklist’ of languages you understand—so YouTube only auto‑translates from languages you don’t speak, and always leaves familiar languages in their original form.

Tomte 1y ago
> who don’t want English (or any language they already know) automatically translated into their native tongue. It‘s even the other way around!
Nullabillity 1y ago
> A better solution would be a ‘blacklist’ of languages you understand—so YouTube only auto‑translates from languages you don’t speak, and always leaves familiar languages in their original form. A better solution would have been to just not ship this disaster of a "feature" in the first place. I wouldn't want my browser to automatically translate every page I go to (without my consent!) either, and that would've been a much easier job!

Tomte 1y ago

I‘m German, watching a German creator in a German-language recording. Only that YouTube decides to use their Mickey Mouse sounding AI voice to deliver an English audio track. Not every time, but at least a third of the time. I have to hunt for the audio setting each time, because you cannot turn off AI voices permanently. Tell me again how I‘m wrong.

weinzierl 1y ago
I only love it when their Mickey Mouse sounding AI voice turns ads into a real clown show. Imagine how they spent big money developing a slogan for their brand or product and then AI comes around with a near literal translation that makes no sense whatsoever and that is what people hear. That is the only positive side, otherwise it is what you wrote. A real pain.
- Agentlien 1y ago
  Reminds me of when Amazon came to Sweden and had machine translated product names - including for movies and games. A friend showed me that the latest game I had worked on was hilariously mistranslated. It's originally "Need For Speed: Payback" but got translated to "behöver du hastighet: återbetalning" which would be more like "do you need speed: reimbursement"
Tepix 1y ago
When using Brave, the audio setting does not exist on the Youtube website. I have to go into iOS settings and change the language there. Unbelievable.

hnthrowaway_423 1y ago

>People make free things for other people who need it >"Why would I want this?"

johannes1234321 1y ago
Having the option is fine. But showing me bad English translations of video titles from my native language without option to disable is stupid. Defaulting to auto dubbed videos for a language I speak and having to hit that small button each time is annoying. It's cool for some stuff, when I don't speak the language, and where the content is valuable, but it has to be an option. (Also, I for one pay for YouTube premium)

cortesoft 1y ago

Some people speak multiple languages, and don't need every video not in their language translated.

seszett 1y ago

I don't know, maybe I didn't look hard enough but the last time it happened to me I couldn't find a way to hear the original. It was a video in French over accents, so the automatic English translation kind of made it useless. I'm French anyway, why translate it to English? I don't even live in an English-speaking country either (not that translating to Dutch would have been better).

numpad0 1y ago

Because displaced honorifics alone is too much. Translated audio railroads is match was a draw. worse.

shmeeed 1y ago
That's the perfect example! I honestly still can't tell what "match was draw" is supposed to say, but that's a really good match for the actual experience.
- numpad0 1y ago
  "even". I know it's pushing a bit too far, but if you could just do with a bit of squinting, what's the problem :p

nurumaik 1y ago

How about "if you want the translated sound track there's a button for you in settings to change it" instead?

gfdujdufituj 1y ago

There is no option on mobile.