Multilingual people all must have experienced YouTube's f**kery with auto translation. Still no workaround?

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• quickenparalysespunk@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  sorry to anyone if my grievance wasn’t clear.

  the problem is:

  1. auto translated video titles make many videos seem like they’re in my language (either of my 2 fluent languages) but in fact the video is not -> ai generated title fraud
  2. auto generated translated audio track -> don’t like dubs, from humans or not. if i watch a video in a language i don’t understand, i want the original audio and subtitles. always.
  3. auto generated subtitles appear even when there is no talking, i.e. during sound effects or music (even instrumental)

  root causes:

  • ai translation is incompetent thus far and for the foreseeable future. (please don’t mention “good” ai translation between western European languages. Compared to the rest of the world these may as well be slight accents of the same language, especially but not limited to Romance<-> Romance, Germanic<->Germanic, English<->Germanic/Romance)
  • YouTube corporation thinks multilingual audience don’t exist, i.e. thinks everyone only wants audio/subtitles in the settings’ selected 1 (one) language. no option to select multi languages.
  • ai translated audio track can only be disabled per video during playback. no option in settings screen to disable ai generated audio (on watcher side). maybe this is Freetube issue, not sure cuz i haven’t watched YouTube directly in years.

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  • stuner@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yeah, I also find it very annoying. I guess Youtube just can’t imagine that people exist who speak more than one language…

    Having the option of automatic translations is fine but at least let me disable it!

    I think, currently, creators can disable it, so you can ask them to do that.

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• ECB@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  In general, US-based sites/companies are usually terrible with supporting multi-lingualism. It’s not really surprising I guess considering how monolingual most of the country/region is.

  For years google maps has annoyed me, since I just wanted a good way to have German and English reviews not be translated, since both are common in my city and I speak both languages.

  Somehow it randomly works sometimes and then suddenly will start translating them again. It’s very inconsistent.

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• jjpamsterdam@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This is such an annoyance. As someone who regularly reads and watches media in several times different languages, the scourge of auto translate has only become worse. With the advent of more capable translation tools this will probably only get worse. I’ve already switched my OS language to English on all of my devices and found that it helped a little.

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• ILikeTraaaains@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Since I watch little to none content on my language (Spanish) so I changed the YouTube app language settings for the interface to English.

  However sometimes it still fuck the captions, like setting them on German if the video is in English, or on Thai/Hindi/Japanese when is it in Korean.

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• starlinguk@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  You can switch it off in Revanced. I’d completely forgotten about this nonsense (I live in Germany, until Revanched fixed it half the videos I watched were in robot German).

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• bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  And porn sites win again. Most of them which have auto translation also have an option to turn it off.

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• Treczoks@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I regularly got a request to rate the translation after switching back to original English. I always rated it as very bad, and it seems they don’t offer their monotonous syntho-voice audiotracks anymore.

  Titles are still fucked up, though.

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• dinckelman@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I feel like the AI dubs are just a way to annoy people with ad blockers. Both on desktop, and my modded mobile client, any time i open a new video, the player forces my quality down to 144p, and turns on the first available dub

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  • pycorax@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I have ublock origin on desktop and revanced patched youtube and I don’t have any of this issues. So it might just simply be YouTube being YouTube.

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• solrize@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  You can turn off captions, I thought. Uploaders can supply their own caption tracks if they want. Otherwise auto generated ones are available. They aren’t great but they can help.

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  • quickenparalysespunk@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    sorry if i wasn’t clear.

    the problem is:

    1. auto translated video titles make many videos seem like they’re in my language (either of my 2 fluent languages) but in fact the video is not -> ai generated title fraud
    2. auto generated translated audio track -> don’t like dubs, from humans or not. if i watch a video in a language i don’t understand, i want the original audio and subtitles. always.
    3. auto generated subtitles appear even when there is no talking, i.e. during sound effects or music (even instrumental)

    root causes:

    • ai translation is incompetent thus far and for the foreseeable future. (please don’t mention “good” ai translation between western European languages. Compared to the rest of the world these may as well be slight accents of the same language, especially but not limited to Romance<-> Romance, Germanic<->Germanic, English<->Germanic/Romance)
    • YouTube corporation thinks multilingual audience don’t exist, i.e. thinks everyone only wants audio/subtitles in the settings’ selected 1 (one) language. no option to select multi languages.
    • ai translated audio track can only be disabled per video during playback. no option in settings screen to disable ai generated audio (on watcher side). maybe this is Freetube issue, not sure cuz i haven’t watched YouTube directly in years.

    source