r/dankmemes ☣️ 2d ago

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u/CatCatPizza 2d ago

I feel like its the opposite. Youtube forces native language automaticly with crappy ai dubs while I want it in original english.

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u/PenguinBread 2d ago

This. And it's so annoying that you can't disable these garabage AI translations wether it's these dubbed shorts or all the video titles. Only option is to change your language to english but then they would probably translate the stuff from your native language into english lmao

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u/CHONPSCa 2d ago

And it doesn't make it any better XD the ai just mutes it when it can't translate it. That or say random stuff based on what it understood.

You can disable the ai dub in the vid. i saw an "original audio" or something. It's under settings.

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u/piewca_apokalipsy ☣️ 2d ago

Depends what you have as main language set

YouTube can't comprehend knowing more than 1 language

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u/CatCatPizza 2d ago

I guess I must have been changing the wrong settings then. Entire UI and all of that stuff is english but still it does that.

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u/divat10 Dank Cat Commander 2d ago

There is another language setting for your preferred language that handles the AI dubs.

Youtube also just changes this back after every update :/

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u/Shadowchaoz 1d ago

It doesn't solve the problem tho, because now it tries to translate videos in your native language into english. You can't win and this forced shit needs to go.

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u/PLOKS- 1d ago

I use an add-on on Firefox that fixes this. Actually I have like 8 specifically for YouTube because off all the bullshit that's on that site

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u/Shadowchaoz 1d ago

Same I also have an extention to fix many idiotic things youtube does. It's still annoying that we have to resort to that.

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u/The_Neto06 1d ago

ublock, return yt dislike, sponsorblock, yt search fixer, enhancer for youtube, betterttv

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u/angelis0236 Vegemite Victim 🦘🦖 17h ago

Everytime they 'fix something' I add another extension

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u/divat10 Dank Cat Commander 1d ago

Yeah thats true it fucking sucks

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u/Pristine-Breath6745 1d ago

same for me. its annoying af.

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u/AncleJack EX-NORMIE 2d ago

O hate it when youtube translates my Polish titles into English (at least it's less cringe then the opposite) but at least on pc you there is a browser extension that disables it

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u/DinoChrono 1d ago

 Thank you for that information! I'm installing it like... right now!

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u/gilbatron 2d ago

It doesn't really depend on anything and seems to be completely arbitrary for me.

The translations are also completely arbitrary and of atrocious quality. It feels like they are using google translate from 2016 to do them

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u/Vectorial1024 2d ago

It seems pretty American to think people can only know 1 language (usually English); well YouTube is an American tech company after all.

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u/Alexisto15 Cheese 🧀 is just a loaf of milk 🥛 1d ago edited 1d ago

I'm a native French speaker, but I prefer to set my YT English, since I mostly watch English content. At least you can still deactivate the HORRIBLE auto-dubs, but titles and bios are still getting translated, which is annoying. There should be a bilingual option.

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u/YueOrigin 2d ago

Recently been checking out one of my childhood French youtuber after spending years with English only.

Hearing the robotic voice instead of his iconic voice shocked me

That settings really pissed me off for a moment...

Google is even worse with search settings.

Sometimes they reset by settings and go back to drench results

Hell they still give me a French result first then english below when im looking up anything pokemon related...

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u/MACHLoeCHER Eic memer 2d ago

Depends what you have as main language set

Nah, it's an absolute mess. I have English set, as my main language. Some video titles get translated, others don't (I don't want any translation, but that's not an option). Some shorts get auto-dubbed without the option to turn it off, others don't. At least I can turn off the auto-translation with regular videos, but why don't they just give me the option to translate, instead of making the decision for me. Also Youtube always forces one video, in a random language on my frontpage, to really push this "feature".

The forced auto-translation is the worst feature, they ever added. Even if I would speak only one language, I just don't see how this could appeal to me.

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u/Jpporta 2d ago

but now videos from my country gets translated to english … there is no winning only deception

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u/Some-Cat8789 2d ago

Yep, same problem here. I have everything in English and YouTube is AI-dubbing my native language videos even if my browser clearly lists my native language as second preferred. Piece of shit. At least they mostly rolled back that recent horrible UI change (you still can't scroll down while in full screen).

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u/SurelyNotAnOctopus 1d ago

Yeah, and ive seen it both ways.

I speak both French and English fluently, yet YT seems to often auto dub English to French, and french to English. Just give me the original dammit, is that so hard?

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u/NotARealPineapple 1d ago

Yeah, this week I changed the main language to english and then the videos on my native language started getting the crappy ai auto dub. It's a lose-lose situation. The best choice is setting the main language as the one you mainly consume

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u/smokedpaprika124 17h ago

YouTube can't comprehend knowing more than 1 language

They can't comprehend basic UI/UX. Like, even Reddit added a toggle to enable translations or not.

But what can we say, Gmail needed 2025 to add a "mark as read" notification shortcut ON ANDROID, while Apple devices had this for years

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u/Raketka123 15h ago

dude this

my native language is Slovak, but Im also fluent in Czech, English and Polish. And it understood the first two no problem, but for some reason it will never recommend me any polish video if currently watching something non-polish and the other way around. And its only Polish too, it will swap between Czech, Slovak and English between videos no problem

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u/Dj_nOCid3 3h ago

I have youtube set to english, it translates english videos to french, and french videos to english

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u/Barlowan (my) Life is a meme 2d ago

I'm mostly watching YouTube in English, but I fluently speak other 4 languages and when I want to watch the video in any of those languages, YouTube forces it's AI shitty translation upon me. But, when it's Japanese, German, languages I don't speak and wouldn't mind having at least translated captions - it's all in original language, captions included!

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u/Donrummata 2d ago

Works the other way for me. It forces crappy dubs in enlish ant translates everything that is russian (even titles). Annoying as hell…

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u/baguetteispain 1d ago

I feel like it's both

I want to watch a video in my native language? Fuck you, English. An English video ? Haha, NOW it's your native language

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u/Wedos98 1d ago

I stopped watching some channels because of that, that annoying AI voice that for some reason cannot be disabled fully ruining the original video tone and speed because it cannot match the delivery.

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u/Gorfyx 1d ago

That's the main problem, the fucking AI translation, it is just horrible. There are some good translations, like the ones Glitch does to its series, but holy fuck, those channels that uses automatic translation, I think they're just scaring away the people that speaks those languages, because, WOW, it is so trash, I can't say enough how shit it is.

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u/ElBusAlv PASTA IS MY LIFE ELIXIR 🇮🇹 1d ago

But when you have it in original english you still get a shitty ai dub in a video that isn't in english

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u/francorocco 1d ago

Same, I want to see English and they try to force portuguese for me