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I fucking hate autotranslated titles!
I only watch YouTube videos in English but my native language is different. All the fucking videos have fucking ai translated titles that don’t even make sense . And all the jokes are lost
And the automatic dubs sound horrible. People actually listen to those?
Now even ads for booking.com use the horrible ai voices. It’s a 10 seconds ad and their revenue for 2024 was 24 fucking BILLIONS. CAN YOU GO TO FIVERR TO HIRE A NATIVE SPEAKER FOR $5 AND NOT RAPE MY EARS???
It’s so dumb, random video titles are translated into Polish and it just makes them worse
I am Polish, but I have language on Google services set to English, so I get random Polish YouTubers’ titles auto-translated to English. It’s so fucking dumb.
Love that Newpipe actually allows me to deactivate the audio translation globally.
What about title translation? If yes, does it also remove them title translations on mobile?
That’s what you get by allowing a US site to get a world-wide monopoly…
I’ll just leave this here:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-no-translation
the point you are making is extremely valid but could you make it without using ableism please
The way some websites just guess your language via IP geolocation infuriates me.
And before changing language you have to accept cookies and ToS. In that language. And language selection doesn’t use flags, but it’s written. And the list of languages is translated into “local” language.
I hate these auto translations with a vengeance. I don’t care if its English or my native language. Most of the time, I don’t even notice which it is. Except when the audio of a channel I know suddenly is a desinterested robot voice.
IT IS SOOOOO ANNOYING! I’M CONSTANTLY HAVING TO MANUALLY CHANGE YOUTUBE’S LANGUAGE SINCE I WATCH VIDEOS IN TWO LANGUAGES LOL WHO IN THEIR RIGHT MIND THOUGHT THAT WAS A GOOD IDEA?
The translated titles are ok-ish, I’ve seen some funny mistranslations but most of the time it’s understandable. But the auto-dub is actually unwatchable. Not only is it absolutely terrible both in terms of translation and actual watching experience, you also can’t turn it off? What the hell man…
The translated video titles are the worst. You never know the language the video will be on, and YT is always translating to some random language without any evidence you can speak it.
FUCK THIS IS THE WORST
MY DEVICE IS SET TO SPANISH. THERE IS NO WORLD WHERE I WANT TO LISTEN TO A SPANISH LANGUAGE VIDEO IN ENGLISH WITH A SHITTY AI VOICE
Like I’m cool with the option. I’m even cool with it turning on by default according to your account settings.
BUT WHY IN THE NAME OF FUCK CAN IT NOT BE TURNED OFF???
The first time it happened I assumed I could just go to the audio track settings because some creators put in multiple tracks with different languages. BUT IT’S NOT THERE.
I have the device in Spanish but set the app to English cause the majority of content I consume is in English so that way it doesn’t auto-translates audio and titles into Spanish.
However now is the other way around, the few Spanish creators I follow are auto translated into English.
Is it too difficult to set a list of languages I understand and don’t translate the ones in the list?
Usually when an unpleasant, inconvenient, non-optional ‘feature’ like this comes out, it’s at least obvious how that’d generate the culprit company more profits. But with this one, Im genuinely befuddled as to how it benefits YouTube shareholders. Anyone have a guess?
I think it is marketing for Google AI and - as most things AI these days - a space reservation to prevent any competitor to come with a browser plugin that would add this feature without using Google. AI has to pee on everything to mark its masters territory.
The vast majority of youtube viewers struggle to learn one language, let alone two.
As usual, catering to the lowest denominator makes the most money.
Nothing should be ‘auto’ on a computer. Options are great, but everything your computer does should be a thing you are doing via the computer, not a thing the computer just does.
I vividly hate these features. I use this service to help me with other languages, now they try to translate everything to me as if I’m a toddler. It makes things very hard to enjoy. Besides the ao voice sucks. Good thing i use newpipe now, and i can choose which audio track to play.
