What I find super annoying is the proliferation of auto-dubbing on YouTube.

[dataknightmare@mastodon.xyz]

@alda
Another thing the Anglos do not get is that to non-Anglos English is the easier language. They think their replacing phonetics with (local) tradition amounts to "complexity"

[baldur@toot.cafe]

@alda This has been such a pain. It’s bad enough that you lose the original voices but auto dub has IME been universally awful. Bad voices, often completely inappropriate, and full of errors. I keep having to turn it off again and again for each account that has it enabled.

[alda@topspicy.social]

@baldur The saddest thing about this is creators from "dubbing countries" that are attempting to use this feature to expand into the English-speaking audience but it absolutely misses the target.

Even if there is a top button on your shirt collar, it doesn't mean you have to use it.

[rhelune@todon.eu]

@eq @alda Some years ago while learning Russian for work I watched a certain Russian comedy (The Kitchen) on YT. There was a certain male French character whose lines were dubbed by a flat voiced female speaker. Now, this is not a YT thing, it is how TV in Russia is, dubbing, but everyone's lines read by the same person, and all flat. German TV dubbing is much better, but that voice over in documentaries makes me unable to understand anything. Also, background noise makes me unable to understand the dialogue. I need subtitles even for films in my first language.

[dysfun@social.treehouse.systems]

@alda weird cause youtube keeps giving me dubbed french on already english videos

[alda@topspicy.social]

@rhelune @eq German dubs are also super emotionless but it's like the locals here don't even notice that.

[dascandy@infosec.exchange]

@alda It recently auto-dubbed Barbara's Rabarberbar into English for me.

Auto-dubbing people speaking is horrendous, but auto-dubbing a literal song is even worse.

[lumiukko@metalhead.club]

@alda So this IS a thing. I thought I was losing my mind when I saw a video the other day...

[bix@chaos.social]

@alda at least you can tell YouTube which languages you understand somewhere in your account setting and those don’t get auto-dubbed which for me solved 80% of the problem

[lumiukko@metalhead.club]

@alda Okay weird, I experienced this on my KodI/LibreELEC "TV", but on my PC this is not happening, it is not even a setting. Maybe because I did not select any preferred languages in my settings?

I am unsure how this works

[alda@topspicy.social]

@bix It actually doesn't work most of the time and that is the problem.

[mcslibinas@mastodon.social]

@DataKnightmare @alda anglos made translate in firefox. Anglos! Monolinguals! It's unuseful. Disabled on third minute and never enabled again.

[alda@topspicy.social]

@bix Furthermore, subtitles are a thing. Subtitles. For people who know how to read.

[bix@chaos.social]

@alda subtitles are the best 100% agreed

[rhelune@todon.eu]

@alda @bix This and, I need subtitles in the language of the video. But, if I set them to one language, videos in different languages get subtitles translated to that one language I selected. Also, we can't select multiple languages we want YT to leave alone!

[bix@chaos.social]

@alda really? It worked for a while but a few weeks ago I noticed I got a few dubbed videos (YouTube probably forgot a few languages) so I set them again and I haven’t had a doubled video since (and I have, eh, 5 or 6 languages enabled now)

[rhelune@todon.eu]

@dascandy @alda I am at the same time repulsed and intrigued!

[sinnombre@chaos.social]

@alda andere frage: link?

[alda@topspicy.social]

@sinnombre https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6RyYnzatYo

[empathicqubit@ak.pandastr.eu]

@tommorris@mastodon.social @alda@topspicy.social Sometimes it will autotranslate English comedy channels into German and it kills the puns