Okay, I feel the need to share this because people who only speak english may not realize it.
As a french speaker, I'm seeing more and more websites auto-translating their content, because I guess now there's #AI translation and people think it works?
Guess what: the translations are still shit. It was not okay to publish Google-translated websites without a native speaker checking it if you didn't want to be ridiculed, and it's still not okay now, despite all the hype.
Please don't do this.
Yes, so much THIS! 💯 You've just written down my exact thoughts/experience!
Also, another frustrating thing about auto-translation of YouTube video titles is the fact that you can't really share or search for it meaningfully anymore.
When I share a video with someone or on Fedi, I always include the video title (so one can search for it) - when it's translated and _I can't disable it_ (WTF!?), this is not really possible anymore!
Urgh, so frustrating!
@janriemer
Oh yes! I got an autotranslated youtube video with a horrible, slightly wrong, artificial voice this week, and I took so long for me to figure out how to get back to the original!
I speak several languages. I cannot set my preferred browser language to all of them.
@dasgrueneblatt
Please tell me how.
This is so fucking anoying and ruins every vid.
@gulli
There's a "language of the audio track" setting somewhere, depending on how you are viewing the video. You need to find that and change it to the original.
What works for me: Open the video link with the NewPipe app (android). There the audio language setting is right there on the top of the video next to the resolution, playback speed, etc.
I wanted to tell you how to do that in the youtube player in the webbrowser and I cannot find it!
In the youtube app, which I don't have on my phone, apparently there's an entry for "audio track" in the settings menu of a video. The settings menu of the browser player does not have that entry. Apparently the app also has a setting somewhere to globally disable the dubbing with creepy, slightly wrong voices.
There's even a browser add-on for chrome for switching the language back to the original!
Much appreciated.
Sadly I can't find it. Seems like a third party hack of some kind. In the "original" app or website there is no such setting. In the "Account" there are some language settings but they also dont seem to work. Or at least not every time.
Guess it's time for some addons :)
@gulli @dasgrueneblatt @mitsunee @julienbarnoin
> Guess it's time for some addons
Here you go 😉
YouTube Anti #Translate by Petr:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-anti-translate/
Also available on GitHub:
https://github.com/artisticfox8/yt-anti-translate
I've just installed it, so I can't do a proper review yet, but I had a tab open with a YT video that was auto-translated and upon refreshing that tab, everything on that tab (title, audio etc.) was back to its original language.
Amazing! ✨
Julien Barnoin
Mitsunee | 光音
Jan 
dasgrueneblatt
Gulli