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YouTube Opens Auto-Dubbing to All Creators With 27 Languages and Expressive Speech

The rollout responds to growing demand for natural-sounding translations.

Overview

  • Auto-dubbing is now broadly available to all creators, expanding translated audio support to 27 languages.
  • Expressive Speech debuts in eight languages to better reflect a creator’s tone, emotion, and pacing.
  • Viewers gain a Preferred Language setting that lets them choose original audio or a dub based on their preferences.
  • Automatic Smart Filtering detects videos that shouldn’t be dubbed, and creators can provide, review, remove, or disable dubs.
  • YouTube is piloting lip-sync to align mouth movements with dubbed audio, and it reports over 6 million daily viewers watched 10+ minutes of auto-dubbed content in December with no stated penalty to discovery.