Ask HN: Is Alphabet High? Can't Turn Off Auto-Dubbing on YouTube Videos? What?

1•OhMeadhbh•4mo ago

Sure... I get it... some people might like this. I am not one of those people. I think there are other people who would like to be able to turn auto-dubbing off globally. Recreational cannibus is legal in California, but shouldn't YouTube's product management team just sort of take it easy on the weed?

I'm curious what data they looked at that said people wanted this. It's probably time to build a YouTube competitor that differentiates itself by not giving free THC gummies and psychoactive cacti to their product managers.

Comments

iwanttocomment•4mo ago

Creators have the option to turn on auto-dubbing. Youtube doesn't do it automatically.

You have the option to turn it off under the gear icon in audio track.

If that's not it, feel free to post an offending video.

OhMeadhbh•4mo ago

I was talking to a friend in Germany who said the German language interface doesn't give creators those options yet. And that's the thing that really gets me. I click on a video by a German, in the German language, expecting to hear German. But instead a high pitched synthetic English voice comes out. Don't get me wrong, I loved all the obviously dubbed B-movies from the 70s and 80s, but it's jarring to hear ARD commentators not speaking German.

apples_oranges•4mo ago

Btw. do alternative YT frontends like Invidious help? Not the best way to go about it but for some people it's probably worth trying.

(example link https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=F0w2vbegv1I)

OhMeadhbh•4mo ago

Aha. This works. It defaults to German for German language videos and even gives you the option to flip over to English if you want to. That's much more sensible.

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