Kai Oelfke
Gui RamboSomeone who works on YouTube needs to realize that bilingual people exist. For a while now the app insists in translating video titles from Portuguese to English (I use my devices in English). If I change the language to Portuguese, it then translates video titles from English to Portuguese. I just want to see the original content as it was posted by the creator. And now it's even auto-enabling AI dubbing š¤¦š»āāļø Give me a checkbox to turn this off, please!
Holger Eilhard@_inside this but German instead of Portuguese.
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Leonardo Matheus 
@_inside Most Americans donāt know a second language, so they just donāt test these features for that use case.
I had the same problem you described.
But itās not only YouTube thatās guilt about this; Appleās bilingual keyboard is a mess. It doesnāt show āĀ°ās for example that we need in Portuguese, and every time I open a presentation in Keynote everything is underlined as if misspelled. One when I change back to monolingual keyboard it understands what is written and the underlines disappear.
I had the same problem you described.
But itās not only YouTube thatās guilt about this; Appleās bilingual keyboard is a mess. It doesnāt show āĀ°ās for example that we need in Portuguese, and every time I open a presentation in Keynote everything is underlined as if misspelled. One when I change back to monolingual keyboard it understands what is written and the underlines disappear.
Olivier Halligon@_inside this šÆ!!
This has annoyed me for ages now ā¦ In my case translating French videos' titles in (sometimes bad) English instead of keeping the original (and more accurate) title š
This has annoyed me for ages now ā¦ In my case translating French videos' titles in (sometimes bad) English instead of keeping the original (and more accurate) title š
Lalit Jagtap@_inside great example of bad design taste by YouTube team.
Siguza@_inside c'mon, we all know that they're a monopoly that doesn't have to care one bit about its users, and the only reason they're doing this is because it lets them ride the AI hype bubble to inflate their stock price, which makes shareholders happy.
Ian Douglas Scott@_inside It's also wild that you can't filter search results on YouTube by language.
It's not like Google doesn't know what language videos are in. They could presumably do this easily enough. But just... don't?
Chris Eidhof@_inside also keyboards on iOS. Still struggling every day (I write Dutch, German and English).
Johannes StĆ¼hler
Florian Fittschen@chris @_inside iOS in general.. I use my device in English, but Siri is set to German. This configuration disables all of Apple Intelligenceā¦ Even if both are set to English, Live Voicemail can only be enabled if I set the device to Germanā¦
Why do I set multiple languages and their preference in the Settings in the first place?
Why do I set multiple languages and their preference in the Settings in the first place?
Jan@fittschen @chris @_inside same here. Why can't it work with German set as secondary language?
Now I cannot find some apps anymore because their name did also change a German translation. Like Books to BĆ¼cher - some are still findable by their English name some aren't.
Now I cannot find some apps anymore because their name did also change a German translation. Like Books to BĆ¼cher - some are still findable by their English name some aren't.
Huibert Aalbers@_inside This is a terrible feature. Knowing the videoās original language is an essential meta-data that allows me to decide if I want to see the clip or not. That is why it is so important for me to see the videoās title in its original language. That said, while we are on the subject, I have additional requests.
For example, I would love to be able to set the different languages I speak fluently in order to get better recommendations. For those languages that I understand but do not speak fluently, it would also be great to be able to configure automatic captioning.
Miguel Arroz@_inside Yes! iOS is the only device I run in Portuguese otherwise Maps here in Portugal is unusable (funny that maps is the only app that cannot be run on a different language than the OSā¦) and suddenly all YouTube videos started playing dubbed. I would love to have a conversation with whoever decided to boost their career by shipping that feature. Without any obvious way to be turned off.
Marco@_inside Was mad about this the other week and googled for an answer. You just go to your google account => personal information => languages and add your spoken languages.
It wonāt work immediately but worked for me after 1 or 2 days.
It wonāt work immediately but worked for me after 1 or 2 days.
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Jonathan@_inside Exact same for english and german for me, agree so much!
x0@jonathan859 @_inside Something went totally sideways too with that autodubbing. I speak English only. I also use some third-party applications, primarily foo_youtube and yt-dlp, to watch YouTube most of the time, or rather listen to it, as the video doesn't matter to me since I can't see. I'm not logged in. Despite my IP address clearly saying I'm in Texas, and the headers foo_youtube sent saying I want English, it gave me autodubbed German from an English video. With an unaltered title.
Adam Bonny@_inside Amen! I would even add that not only do bilingual people exist, but they are a significant portion of their user base. Even more ironic, a sizable portion of those bilingual users probably learned their second language by being exposed to and watching videos in a different language on YouTube (especially if that language is English)
Santi@_inside It's horrible how YouTube became uncomfortable with so little and you can't disable it.
For the case of the title translation and autodubbing I changed my language to Galician, I more or less can understand anything without knowing the language. And because it's a less common language it can't translate or autodub.
If not, the browser pluggin improvedtube has an option to disable autodubbing.
@_inside The other issue I had was when YouTube decided that I would have 3 miniatures per row on the screen. It was absurd how big was all.
I tried to disable it, but every solution had a small annoying problem, so I had to live with it until YouTube released me from that prison for no reason.
Mischa@_inside and google already knows that I speak English and German! Thereās a setting for it and everything. Itās so annoying
Ole Begemann@_inside Itās wild how bad the big tech companies are at this (very much including Apple). Youād think they have multilingual users on their radar, considering that a significant proportion of their employees falls into this category.
NoBorg@_inside
Glad to see I'm not the only one being upset by that.
Yes, I want to see everything on it's original language. Most of the time a lot of meaning is lost in the translation. There are so many aspects of language that are particular to each culture and can't really be translated.
Saudade, for example, I prefer to see it in Portuguese, otherwise it's impossible to understand it, the right word to translate it just doesn't exist in other languages.
Glad to see I'm not the only one being upset by that.
Yes, I want to see everything on it's original language. Most of the time a lot of meaning is lost in the translation. There are so many aspects of language that are particular to each culture and can't really be translated.
Saudade, for example, I prefer to see it in Portuguese, otherwise it's impossible to understand it, the right word to translate it just doesn't exist in other languages.
Luis Carlos
Januschka Abroador stop using YT. Help to enable Peertube!
Lyster@_inside OH MY GOD this is DRIVING ME SO MAD!!! It's doing it for me and it's doing it for my dad on the YouTube app on his Google TV stick. And nowhere to turn it off?
Christian@_inside This! I have been complaining about this for a while. I even hit up some creators who have this enabled, thinking theyāre doing people good, like @matt or @stephenrobles.
I finally got my sanity back by using Vinegar by @zhenyi.
Yandry QuiƱonez@_inside I have the same problem with Spanish and English, itās so annoying.
levampyre@_inside Yeah, same here with German and English. It drives me crazy when suddenly the creators I watched in English all the time start to speak robot German to me. Geez, cut it off!
Carlos@_inside I have this with spanish and HATE THIS. my primary language is spanish but I have the app set in english snd 95% of my subs are english. We really need a checkbox somewhere.
Irina@_inside Yes, both a "never translate [language]" and a "never translate anything at all" checkbox!
@_inside I keep getting shitty translations from English into Dutch, for videos about English linguistics.
Harriet M has moved~@_inside +1, watching a favourite Japanese channel turn to robotic English was jarring to say the least. Really don't want this to become standard practice!