YouTube's new audio dubbing tool automatically translates videos to other languages

If you’re a YouTube creator, your audience just got wider. If you’re a YouTube viewer, you’re about to get access to a lot more content.

The video streaming site has unveiled a new audio dubbing tool that automatically creates alternative audio tracks in different languages. 

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YouTube’s new dubbing tool takes English audio and automatically dubs a French, German, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, and Spanish track. A video in any of those languages will receive an English dub. The voice is slightly robotic for videos translated to English but still perfectly understandable. 

Creators with access to the tool don’t need to do anything extra. YouTube will automatically detect the original language and create translated tracks. If you want to see your dubbed videos, you can find them in the Languages section of YouTube Studio. You can listen to the dubs to check if you’re happy with how they sound. If you’re not, you can delete any dubs you don’t like.

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The tool is only available for knowledge and information-focused channels involved in the YouTube Partner Program. If you have the option, you’ll see it under advanced settings. YouTube says it’s expanding to other categories soon. 

To change the audio on a video you’re watching, look for the “auto-dubbed” label. Click the settings gear and look for “audio track”. Click that setting and you’ll see the option to hear the video in its original language or with translated audio.

YouTube says it will continue working with Google DeepMind and Google Translate to create more accurate, expressive, and natural dubs. 

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Future updates will create tracks that mimic your tone and emotions, and even the ambience of your surroundings.