<![CDATA[What I find super annoying is the proliferation of auto-dubbing on YouTube.]]>What I find super annoying is the proliferation of auto-dubbing on YouTube.

I DO NOT WANT THIS. JUST GIVE ME FUCKING SUBTITLES BECAUSE I'M FUCKING LITERATE.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/topic/11188910-001d-46dc-8fd7-f664bda308e0/what-i-find-super-annoying-is-the-proliferation-of-auto-dubbing-on-youtube.RSS for NodeFri, 01 May 2026 13:12:26 GMTWed, 22 Apr 2026 09:24:02 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to What I find super annoying is the proliferation of auto-dubbing on YouTube. on Wed, 22 Apr 2026 11:59:31 GMT]]>@alda »JUST GIVE ME FUCKING SUBTITLES«. 👀 Though please don't FORCE them upon me either. Just let me choose please, 'cause I'm already adult and hence can (and want to) decide for myself. ☝️

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://norden.social/users/ojelabii/statuses/116448242657879050https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://norden.social/users/ojelabii/statuses/116448242657879050Wed, 22 Apr 2026 11:59:31 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to What I find super annoying is the proliferation of auto-dubbing on YouTube. on Wed, 22 Apr 2026 11:45:19 GMT]]>@alda Agreed!

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://norden.social/users/ojelabii/statuses/116448186836383614https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://norden.social/users/ojelabii/statuses/116448186836383614Wed, 22 Apr 2026 11:45:19 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to What I find super annoying is the proliferation of auto-dubbing on YouTube. on Wed, 22 Apr 2026 11:22:02 GMT]]>@alda following on the strength of "jira munchers" as an insult 👌

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://freesewing.social/users/joost/statuses/116448095285559860https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://freesewing.social/users/joost/statuses/116448095285559860Wed, 22 Apr 2026 11:22:02 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to What I find super annoying is the proliferation of auto-dubbing on YouTube. on Wed, 22 Apr 2026 11:19:45 GMT]]>@alda I understand german and english. I watch *exclusively* german and english, because all the channels I've subscribed to produce videos either in either german or english. I do not need nor want to have german translated to english and vice versa.

It sounds fucking horrible, loses literally everything communication is supposed to transport and adds a minute or so to load times.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://chaos.social/users/30p87/statuses/116448086275889792https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://chaos.social/users/30p87/statuses/116448086275889792Wed, 22 Apr 2026 11:19:45 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to What I find super annoying is the proliferation of auto-dubbing on YouTube. on Wed, 22 Apr 2026 11:10:00 GMT]]>@tommorris@mastodon.social @alda@topspicy.social Sometimes it will autotranslate English comedy channels into German and it kills the puns

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://ak.pandastr.eu/objects/f926743f-6166-4341-bfe2-06ea36591384https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://ak.pandastr.eu/objects/f926743f-6166-4341-bfe2-06ea36591384Wed, 22 Apr 2026 11:10:00 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to What I find super annoying is the proliferation of auto-dubbing on YouTube. on Wed, 22 Apr 2026 11:04:19 GMT]]>@sinnombre https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6RyYnzatYo

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://topspicy.social/users/alda/statuses/116448025618911939https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://topspicy.social/users/alda/statuses/116448025618911939Wed, 22 Apr 2026 11:04:19 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to What I find super annoying is the proliferation of auto-dubbing on YouTube. on Wed, 22 Apr 2026 11:01:09 GMT]]>@alda andere frage: link?

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://chaos.social/users/sinnombre/statuses/116448013179488526https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://chaos.social/users/sinnombre/statuses/116448013179488526Wed, 22 Apr 2026 11:01:09 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to What I find super annoying is the proliferation of auto-dubbing on YouTube. on Wed, 22 Apr 2026 10:59:59 GMT]]>@dascandy @alda I am at the same time repulsed and intrigued!

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://todon.eu/users/rhelune/statuses/116448008597483280https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://todon.eu/users/rhelune/statuses/116448008597483280Wed, 22 Apr 2026 10:59:59 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to What I find super annoying is the proliferation of auto-dubbing on YouTube. on Wed, 22 Apr 2026 10:59:17 GMT]]>@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)

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://chaos.social/users/bix/statuses/116448005844918583https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://chaos.social/users/bix/statuses/116448005844918583Wed, 22 Apr 2026 10:59:17 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to What I find super annoying is the proliferation of auto-dubbing on YouTube. on Wed, 22 Apr 2026 10:58:54 GMT]]>@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!

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://todon.eu/users/rhelune/statuses/116448004309117824https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://todon.eu/users/rhelune/statuses/116448004309117824Wed, 22 Apr 2026 10:58:54 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to What I find super annoying is the proliferation of auto-dubbing on YouTube. on Wed, 22 Apr 2026 10:57:02 GMT]]>@alda subtitles are the best 100% agreed

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://chaos.social/users/bix/statuses/116447996936596933https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://chaos.social/users/bix/statuses/116447996936596933Wed, 22 Apr 2026 10:57:02 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to What I find super annoying is the proliferation of auto-dubbing on YouTube. on Wed, 22 Apr 2026 10:55:58 GMT]]>@bix Furthermore, subtitles are a thing. Subtitles. For people who know how to read.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://topspicy.social/users/alda/statuses/116447992743091796https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://topspicy.social/users/alda/statuses/116447992743091796Wed, 22 Apr 2026 10:55:58 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to What I find super annoying is the proliferation of auto-dubbing on YouTube. on Wed, 22 Apr 2026 10:54:14 GMT]]>@DataKnightmare @alda anglos made translate in firefox. Anglos! Monolinguals! It's unuseful. Disabled on third minute and never enabled again.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/mcSlibinas/statuses/116447985980918815https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/mcSlibinas/statuses/116447985980918815Wed, 22 Apr 2026 10:54:14 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to What I find super annoying is the proliferation of auto-dubbing on YouTube. on Wed, 22 Apr 2026 10:53:15 GMT]]>@bix It actually doesn't work most of the time and that is the problem.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://topspicy.social/users/alda/statuses/116447982117807963https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://topspicy.social/users/alda/statuses/116447982117807963Wed, 22 Apr 2026 10:53:15 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to What I find super annoying is the proliferation of auto-dubbing on YouTube. on Wed, 22 Apr 2026 10:51:32 GMT]]>@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 😕

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://metalhead.club/users/lumiukko/statuses/116447975346060872https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://metalhead.club/users/lumiukko/statuses/116447975346060872Wed, 22 Apr 2026 10:51:32 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to What I find super annoying is the proliferation of auto-dubbing on YouTube. on Wed, 22 Apr 2026 10:51:31 GMT]]>@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

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://chaos.social/users/bix/statuses/116447975278020211https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://chaos.social/users/bix/statuses/116447975278020211Wed, 22 Apr 2026 10:51:31 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to What I find super annoying is the proliferation of auto-dubbing on YouTube. on Wed, 22 Apr 2026 10:47:07 GMT]]>@alda So this IS a thing. I thought I was losing my mind when I saw a video the other day...

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://metalhead.club/users/lumiukko/statuses/116447957944444428https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://metalhead.club/users/lumiukko/statuses/116447957944444428Wed, 22 Apr 2026 10:47:07 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to What I find super annoying is the proliferation of auto-dubbing on YouTube. on Wed, 22 Apr 2026 10:46:41 GMT]]>@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.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/dascandy/statuses/116447956254115423https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/dascandy/statuses/116447956254115423Wed, 22 Apr 2026 10:46:41 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to What I find super annoying is the proliferation of auto-dubbing on YouTube. on Wed, 22 Apr 2026 10:45:07 GMT]]>@rhelune @eq German dubs are also super emotionless but it's like the locals here don't even notice that.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://topspicy.social/users/alda/statuses/116447950128805217https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://topspicy.social/users/alda/statuses/116447950128805217Wed, 22 Apr 2026 10:45:07 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to What I find super annoying is the proliferation of auto-dubbing on YouTube. on Wed, 22 Apr 2026 10:45:05 GMT]]>@alda weird cause youtube keeps giving me dubbed french on already english videos

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.treehouse.systems/users/dysfun/statuses/116447949962453133https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.treehouse.systems/users/dysfun/statuses/116447949962453133Wed, 22 Apr 2026 10:45:05 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to What I find super annoying is the proliferation of auto-dubbing on YouTube. on Wed, 22 Apr 2026 10:43:41 GMT]]>@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.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://todon.eu/users/rhelune/statuses/116447944470275121https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://todon.eu/users/rhelune/statuses/116447944470275121Wed, 22 Apr 2026 10:43:41 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to What I find super annoying is the proliferation of auto-dubbing on YouTube. on Wed, 22 Apr 2026 10:33:55 GMT]]>@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.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://topspicy.social/users/alda/statuses/116447906044698070https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://topspicy.social/users/alda/statuses/116447906044698070Wed, 22 Apr 2026 10:33:55 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to What I find super annoying is the proliferation of auto-dubbing on YouTube. on Wed, 22 Apr 2026 10:26:48 GMT]]>@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.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://toot.cafe/users/baldur/statuses/116447878111688377https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://toot.cafe/users/baldur/statuses/116447878111688377Wed, 22 Apr 2026 10:26:48 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to What I find super annoying is the proliferation of auto-dubbing on YouTube. on Wed, 22 Apr 2026 10:06:47 GMT]]>@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"

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.xyz/users/DataKnightmare/statuses/116447799394255158https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.xyz/users/DataKnightmare/statuses/116447799394255158Wed, 22 Apr 2026 10:06:47 GMT