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> But the real elephant in the room is that the lionshare of video is now being delivered by major media platforms like YouTube. Youtube is dubbing videos with
by LtWorf 1y ago
> But the real elephant in the room is that the lionshare of video is now being delivered by major media platforms like YouTube.
Youtube is dubbing videos with AI for no reason whatsoever if you play the videos from the website these days.
- noir_lord 1y agoI'm still curious how they thought that was remotely a thing anybody wanted. The cynic in me says some PM rolled out it out because they had an internal metric to hit. I know a lot of people who are bilingual (or trilingual) and they utterly loathe it.
- LtWorf 1y agoThe only explanation I can give myself is that Americans can't comprehend the idea that a single person might speak more than one language. It's pretty funny considering how google claims that their hiring practices make them hire only the most intelligent people on the planet.
- lukan 1y agoCan't you just deactivate it?
- LtWorf 1y agoNo idea, but also why is it activated when I've been watching english content on that account for several years?
- lukan 1y agoI never experienced subs I could not deactivate. And why they activated it? Well, because they own their plattform and do what they want with it. (I think they have done worse)
- LtWorf 1y agoNobody here was talking about subtitles.
- lukan 1y agoThen about what? I assumed that was meant with "dubbing".
- LtWorf 1y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dubbing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dubbing
- lukan 1y agoOh, then I guess I did not wanted to understand. Does youtube really just changes the audiotrack of videos? I never encountered that so far.
- LtWorf 1y agoYep, with a robotic sounding voice. They decided I don't speak english so I either download the video externally or I must every single time select english as audio track.
- Insanity 1y agoI’m one of those who hate it. I’m trilingual, but when watching something in any foreign language I just want to read subtitles instead of “dubs”. It is of course worse when it tries to do so on a language I already speak.
- selfhoster11 1y agoI can see it being useful. Lots of people who don't know English are out there.