Re:Yt-dlp: Upcoming new requirements for YouTube downloads
by LtdJorge on Wednesday September 24, 2025 @11:49AM
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What about the auto translated titles? It also happens for chapters in the video...
Sames languages as you. It drives me nuts because the translations are almost always wrong.
Re:Yt-dlp: Upcoming new requirements for YouTube downloads
by Bootvis on Wednesday September 24, 2025 @12:47PM
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This “feature” amazes me. It is badly done and a bad idea. I haver never watched a dubbed video so why show me a translated title? It’s also surprising, Google has plenty ESL employees on staff.
Re:Yt-dlp: Upcoming new requirements for YouTube downloads
by bonoboTP on Wednesday September 24, 2025 @05:46PM
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There has to be some KPI tied to how often the AI model is used in production for providing translations on YouTube etc. Someone's promotion hangs on the translation feature being used as often as possible on YouTube.
Re:Yt-dlp: Upcoming new requirements for YouTube downloads
by OJFord on Wednesday September 24, 2025 @10:48AM
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I don't want it dubbed whether I speak the language or not.
Re:Yt-dlp: Upcoming new requirements for YouTube downloads
by the_af on Wednesday September 24, 2025 @12:43PM
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Yes, this is what I mean. I NEVER want it dubbed.
I'd rather use auto-generated subtitles (even if flawed), but I want to hear the original voices!
Re:Yt-dlp: Upcoming new requirements for YouTube downloads
by zahlman on Wednesday September 24, 2025 @11:22AM
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> Auto-generated subtitles for other languages are ok, but I want to listen to the original voices!
The first time I saw this feature, it was on a cover of some pop song in a foreign language. Why on Earth... ?
Re:Yt-dlp: Upcoming new requirements for YouTube downloads
by pjc50 on Wednesday September 24, 2025 @11:51AM
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Comments are quite good at pointing out when the creator has accidentally left it on (it is of course enabled by default and authors have to actively disable it).
Re:Yt-dlp: Upcoming new requirements for YouTube downloads
by kevin_thibedeau on Wednesday September 24, 2025 @12:43PM
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It is enabled by default. One creator of English language content had their video misclassified as Spanish and people were getting a machine English dub on an English video. Support to fix it appears to be a nightmare.
Re:Yt-dlp: Upcoming new requirements for YouTube downloads
by the_af on Wednesday September 24, 2025 @12:45PM
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Wait, do you mean it's enabled by default but the author can disable it?
If not, I wonder why I can still watch most videos in their original language (even though I'm in a Spanish-speaking country), and I only encountered this once so far.
Re:Yt-dlp: Upcoming new requirements for YouTube downloads
by kevin_thibedeau on Wednesday September 24, 2025 @02:54PM
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There is supposed to be a procedure to manually remove each language dub but it was broken (at least as of last year).
Re:Yt-dlp: Upcoming new requirements for YouTube downloads
by extraduder_ire on Wednesday September 24, 2025 @10:25PM
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It's being gradually rolled out to channels. Will likely hit larger ones earlier, or following some other metric youtube is following.
I'm in a Spanish speaking country, but I want to watch English videos in English.
Auto-generated subtitles for other languages are ok, but I want to listen to the original voices!