YouTube’s automatic dubbing feature uses AI to translate a video’s spoken audio into additional languages, helping creators make their content accessible to a wider international audience without manually recording every language track.
How Auto-Dubbing Works
- Multiple languages: YouTube can automatically generate dubbed audio tracks in supported languages, with availability varying by the video’s original language.
- Natural-sounding speech: YouTube continues to improve dubbing so translated speech can better reflect the tone, pacing, and expression of the original speaker.
- Lip-sync technology: YouTube has also experimented with technology that can better synchronize a speaker’s mouth movements with translated audio.
- Viewer language controls: Viewers can select available audio tracks and manage their preferred languages through YouTube settings.
How Creators Can Enable Auto-Dubbing
On desktop:
- Sign in to YouTube Studio
- Go to Settings
- Select Upload defaults
- Choose Advanced settings
- Enable Allow automatic dubbing
Creators may also have the option to review automatically generated dubs before they are published.
Auto-dubbing can help creators reach viewers in different countries and languages while reducing the time and expense involved in producing separate translated audio tracks.
