Google has just made an announcement on YouTube that should delight creators, but also users. Thanks to artificial intelligence, the Mountain View firm is breaking the language barrier, once and for all. Indeed, if it was already possible to have translated subtitles on certain videos on the platform, Google also offers an AI which automatically generates dubbing.
In other words, if a video has been published in English, it can benefit from automatic dubbing, generated by artificial intelligence, in French. Creators will be able to expand their audience with these dubs, while users should benefit from an even larger catalog of videos in their native languages.
“We just made auto-dubbing available to hundreds of thousands of YouTube Partner Program channels focused on knowledge and information, and we’ll expand it to other types of content soon”indicates Google.
What languages are available?
According to Google, if a video is in English, it can benefit from dubbing in French, German, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese and Spanish. And if the video is in one of these languages, it will be able to benefit from English dubbing. In any case, YouTube ensures that creators continue to have control over this functionality. Indeed, they will be able to check the dubbing of their videos and even delete these dubbings if they are not satisfied. On the user side, YouTube will place a label on its application to indicate that auto-dubbing is active. And they will have the possibility to choose between the dubbed version or the original version, on an audio track selector.
According to our colleagues at Android Police, this YouTube functionality, tested since 2023, would be powered by Aloud technology, a project which saw the light of day within Area 120, Google’s internal startup incubator.
- YouTube is breaking the language barrier with automatic dubbing technology
- Thanks to AI, a video in English can also be available in French (or vice versa)
- This allows creators to expand their community, while users can enjoy more videos
- The technology that powers this functionality would have been developed by a startup created in Area 120, Google’s internal incubator
