Forget subtitles: YouTube now dubs videos with AI-generated voices

[mfiguiere]

https://restofworld.org/2023/youtube-ai-dubbing-automated-translation/

[anonzzzies]

I definitely don’t prefer dubbing over subtitles. A part of acting is the voice.

[badrabbit]

I personally hate dubbing, i prefer to hear the original speake's tone of voice and pronounciation. Subtitles also help learn a language. But even in english I always turn them on, it really helps to see the spelling of words. Like I was watching "the witcher" a few days ago and I liked knowing "dickstra" is actually "djikstra" or "skoiate" is "scoi'atel" there are many benefits to subtitles, but it is a subjective preference.

[janosdebugs → badrabbit]

Annecdotal evidence: on a recently-launched YouTube channel (10k+ views so far) we have 40% of the views with English subtitles. 58% use no subtitles. 30-ish % of views come from English speaking countries. (We manually upload subtitles.)

However, I would very much appreciate being able to upload a second audio track instead of AI generated dubbing.

[semi → janosdebugs]

I saw a video on coffee tasting that had a second audio track without slurping sounds. so I don't know how widely available the feature is but YouTube does have some version of uploading alternative audio tracks

[janosdebugs → semi]

Holy smokes, you are right! It's hidden under subtitles! Thank you! https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/13338784?hl=en

[meltyness]

Just like their auto caption / translate, it'll be free, you won't be able to pay for it, and it only work on Google-approved viewpoints.

[stuaxo]

I can't wait for some hilarious dubs to come out.