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Re: YouTube No Translation

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Post by Tomte »

vcvbcv wrote: post #7
ars wrote: post #4

Why would I want this? I watched a translated YouTube video and it was great. If I don't want the translated sound track there's a button right there in settings to change it. Why do I need this extension?

I guess this extension is really aimed at multilingual viewers who don’t want English (or any language they already know) automatically translated into their native tongue. A better solution would be a ‘blacklist’ of languages you understand—so YouTube only auto‑translates from languages you don’t speak, and always leaves familiar languages in their original form.

> who don’t want English (or any language they already know) automatically translated into their native tongue.

It‘s even the other way around!

Re: YouTube No Translation

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Post by cortesoft »

ars wrote: post #4

Why would I want this? I watched a translated YouTube video and it was great. If I don't want the translated sound track there's a button right there in settings to change it. Why do I need this extension?

Some people speak multiple languages, and don't need every video not in their language translated.

Re: YouTube No Translation

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Post by weinzierl »

Tomte wrote: post #10
ars wrote: post #4

Why would I want this? I watched a translated YouTube video and it was great. If I don't want the translated sound track there's a button right there in settings to change it. Why do I need this extension?

I‘m German, watching a German creator in a German-language recording. Only that YouTube decides to use their Mickey Mouse sounding AI voice to deliver an English audio track. Not every time, but at least a third of the time. I have to hunt for the audio setting each time, because you cannot turn off AI voices permanently. Tell me again how I‘m wrong.

I only love it when their Mickey Mouse sounding AI voice turns ads into a real clown show.

Imagine how they spent big money developing a slogan for their brand or product and then AI comes around with a near literal translation that makes no sense whatsoever and that is what people hear.

That is the only positive side, otherwise it is what you wrote. A real pain.

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Post by hnthrowaway_423 »

rdtsc wrote: post #8

It's surprising how hostile youtube is to multilingual users. Probably all in some attempt to show off their translation capability or to improve the experience for users who may want to access content in a language they don't speak? Or it's just as dumb as this was on some product managers "designed and implemented" line to get promoted? But, surely someone sane there has to realize there is a large number of users…

Right ? I am suprised that Facebook is actually the one leading in this UX: they clearly separate UX language ( singular ) and Languages which you don't need translation ( plural ).

Re: YouTube No Translation

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Post by seszett »

ars wrote: post #4

Why would I want this? I watched a translated YouTube video and it was great. If I don't want the translated sound track there's a button right there in settings to change it. Why do I need this extension?

I don't know, maybe I didn't look hard enough but the last time it happened to me I couldn't find a way to hear the original.

It was a video in French over accents, so the automatic English translation kind of made it useless. I'm French anyway, why translate it to English? I don't even live in an English-speaking country either (not that translating to Dutch would have been better).

Re: YouTube No Translation

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Post by oc1 »

So Google assumes that its user only speaks one language and needs translation for everything else. Is this the educational standard in America?

Re: YouTube No Translation

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Post by userbinator »

goku12 wrote: post #3

Kudos to YouTube for making it to the list of a rare few websites that require browser extensions to deliver a half decent user experience. What's more? YouTube also leaves the competition in the dust in the sheer number of extensions required to achieve this. I hear that you extend this privilege uniformly to both unpaid guests and the subscribers of YouTube Premium alike. I'm sure that the lack of alternatives help…

I stopped using the site long ago because of what it's turned into, and only visit it for the occasional things I can't do with Invidious, yt-dlp, and a few shell scripts.

It's quite telling of how their developers "think" when they put the original language stream as the last one in the track list, instead of the sane first (zeroth?) position that it should occupy.

Re: YouTube No Translation

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Post by hnthrowaway_423 »

ars wrote: post #4

Why would I want this? I watched a translated YouTube video and it was great. If I don't want the translated sound track there's a button right there in settings to change it. Why do I need this extension?

>People make free things for other people who need it

>"Why would I want this?"

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