YouTube can now automatically dub your videos

YouTube is the world’s second largest website, with more than 2.5 billion monthly active users. Only a small percentage of these users speak your language, and if you’re a creator on the platform, it makes sense to dub your videos in multiple languages ​​to reach a wider audience. YouTube already has a cool feature that lets you Generate subtitles in various languages to cater to a wider audience. Now, the platform has launched a new tool that can help you automatically generate alternate audio tracks in different languages.

Youtube explain Its new dubbing tool detects the language of uploaded videos and automatically creates dubbed versions. The tool currently supports nine languages: English, French, German, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese and Spanish. It automatically dubs English videos for all other supported languages. However, if the video is uploaded in any other language, it will only be dubbed in English.

The automated dubbing tool is currently available for knowledge and information-focused channels in the YouTube Partner Program, but will soon be expanded to other content types. If it applies to your channel, you can find it in YouTube Studio’s Advanced Settings.

Youtube recommend Check dubbing before publishing your video, as dubbing may “contain errors due to mispronunciation, accents, dialects, or background noise in the original video.” The tool may also face problems translating proper nouns, idioms, and jargon, and may not be able to pair the voice used for dubbing with the original voice. To ensure viewers know when a video is dubbed using the new tool, YouTube will add a new “Auto-dubbing” label to the video description.

Despite these shortcomings, YouTube’s new automatic dubbing tool is still a great addition, especially for smaller creators who can’t afford to hire professionals to dub their videos. YouTube is already working with Google DeepMind and Google Translate to make voiceovers more accurate, expressive, and natural, and plans to launch an expressive voice feature to “help mimic the creator’s tone, emotion, and even the atmosphere around them” soon. .

In addition to the new automatic dubbing tool, YouTube has also updated the bottom bar in the Android and iOS apps with a new translucent design (via 9 to 5 google). The updated bottom bar is rolling out with Android version 19.47 and iOS version 19.49.