What it is and how to activate or deactivate subtitles or dubbing made with AI

Let’s explain to you how to activate or deactivate YouTube automatic translationa function that uses artificial intelligence to create subtitles or dubbing in your language. So, it doesn’t matter what language you’re watching a video in, because you can always know what they’re saying.

Let’s start by telling you how to activate AI subtitles in your language, something available in almost all videos. Then we will tell you how to activate dubbing in your language made by artificial intelligence, something that is slowly arriving, but that is currently available in very few videos.

Subtitles in your language with AI

To use this option, the first thing you have to do is activate subtitles for a video on YouTube. It doesn’t matter what language they appear in, just click on the subtitles button, which has the rectangle icon with lines of text, and they will appear.

Now Click on the options button and choose the option Subtitleswhich will take you to the screen where you can see the languages ​​in which subtitles are available. Here, click on the option Automatically translate which you will see at the bottom.

This will take you to a screen where you will have to choose the language that you want to use, such as Spanish. And that’s it, from now on the AI ​​will generate subtitles in your language, although it is very possible that it will make translation errors. If you go back to the options and click on Subtitlesnow it will appear from which language it is translating to which other.

Automatic AI dubbing

To generate a dubbing created by artificial intelligence, when you are watching a video click on the options button. You have to see if the option appears Audio tracks. If it appears you will be able to generate an AI dubbing, and if it does not appear you will not be able to.

When you click on audio trackyou will see the language in which the YouTube video audio is available. Below, you will see the option to Automatically foldedwhich will allow you to choose the language you want the videos to be dubbed into. You will have to go to the settings and choose your preferred languages ​​there so that they are displayed in the automatic dubbing options.

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