YouTube expands automatic PT-BR dubbing for videos on millions of channels

YouTube, which has been testing its automatic dubbing tool with some business partners in recent months, announced that this feature is now available to thousands of content creators. According to the platform, the launch aims to facilitate connections between the public and content creators in different parts of the world.

As the name suggests, automatic dubbing happens almost instantly on most videos. The process is quite simple to understand: If the original language of the video is English, The content will automatically be dubbed into French, German, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese and Spanish..

Backwards, If the original content is in one of the above languages, the video will be dubbed into English by default.. For now, there is no information about expanding dubbing to new languages, but if the operation works, this is something that may happen in the future.

YouTube says the tool isn’t perfect

The process of adding voiceover to videos also seems quite simple because users will not need to change many settings. To use the feature, you need to upload a video and the technology will detect the language and perform the audio conversion. It is possible to remove the dubbing of a particular video via YouTube Studio if the creator does not like the result.

For now, not all creators will be able to enable the automatic dubbing tool on YouTube. New launch of the social network Includes manufacturers that focus on categories such as knowledge and informationhowever, the platform promised to expand to other areas soon.

Finally, YouTube emphasizes that the source will not always work this well, underlining that the process is still up-to-date and cannot always represent the correct translation well.