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Re: YouTube No Translation

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Post by Mawr »

anal_reactor wrote: post #186
DoingIsLearning wrote: post #138

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Average user is not multilingual I don't know your reality but literally anywhere in the 744 million users in Europe if you consider the technology literate average of internet users I guarantee that someone who is not even bilingual is precisely the exception. I would hazard say the same is true in most of Asia and Africa perhaps less so in South America where Spanish/Portuguese are more monolithic.

I don't think you understand the proficiency needed to comfortably consume content in another language. Save for a few hotspots (Benelux, Nordics) most people say "yes, I speak a second language" because when they focus hard, they can say "me wants toilet" and that's enough for their use case (holiday abroad once a year). My mother is a teacher of English but when I brought a friend who only spoke English, I had to t…

Maybe in those countries. In any case, it's considerably easier to read and listen than write and speak.

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Post by ozim »

Mawr wrote: post #228
ozim wrote: post #104

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I think you overestimate amount of multilingual users and tourists. If you have 40 million country and you have 10 mil tourists over whole year given week you might 200k users that happen to be in that country. Even if you have another 1mil expats living in that country. it still is 35mil of people vs 1mil of people for whom "your IP is from country X you get language X" is pretty good heuristic. That said I am also…

Huh, basically every European aged <~40 is going to know their native language + English at the very least.

Knowing English is not equal to enjoying content in English.

Besides that they also get German, Dutch, Finnish or Indian stuff translated that they don't understand.

Re: YouTube No Translation

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Post by red_admiral »

thrdbndndn wrote: post #193
red_admiral wrote: post #94

Nowadays to use youtube efficiently with ADHD, you practically need all of: (a) uBlock - this one is debatable but deals with the worst distractions especially if you're trying to learn from a video your professor put up and you have an exam to prepare for, (b) unhook - hides most of the "recommendations" that attempt to keep you on the site because you're planning to do the copmprehension questions your professor ga…

Autoplay next can be simply turned off and I've had it off for years.

Probably region or other factors dependent?

Re: YouTube No Translation

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Post by levzzz »

rightbyte wrote: post #187
qwertox wrote: post #176

Autodubbing is probably the worst feature Google has ever implemented. It's OK if they want to offer it, but at least let me disable it for specific languages. And for those languages which I don't understand, let me choose a default autodubbing language. Because I assume that auto-generated translations from French to English will be far better than those from French to German or Spanish. Also, the voices they use s…

It is terrible and took me a while to realize what was happening. I though some videos were generated spam. Reddit does something similar now. It auto translates posts and they show up in Google in my native tongue. Really annoying since when I search in that language I specifically don't want English sites.

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Re: YouTube No Translation

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Post by Xaphiosis »

jacek wrote: post #152

It is incredible how many addons I need to make YouTube usable. Here's my list (all Firefox): - uBlock Origin - ad block - SponsorBlock - to skip in video ads (some other nice features like highlights too) - YouTube Row Fixer - for the tiles to adjust to the window - Return YouTube Dislike - self explanatory - YouTube No Translation - thanks for the suggestion!

BlockTube is a must - can block specific channels from showing up, videos with "Journaling" and "changed my life", hide videos watched over 50%, etc.

Enhancer for Youtube is also super useful: disable shorts entirely, autoplay next only on playlists, tweak number of videos per row, default playback speed, default theater mode, etc.

As another commenter said, Youtube is one of those sites that really requires multiple plugins to be useful :/

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Post by Tor3 »

snailmailman wrote: post #126
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…

I’ve been learning a new language, and I’m constantly encountering language-learning videos that get translated entirely into my native language, effectively useless until I revert the audio track. Annoyingly, there’s not a native way to revert the translated description and title as far as I know. And this seems to be done without the knowledge of the creator! I watched a language-learning YouTube short today that w…

I've seen a bunch of different shorts which have the same AI-generated horrible voice. I always assumed this was just the author preferring to script the audio and generate the voice. Can I assume this is actually big-G auto-dubbing the short? If so, then I'm guilty of (incorrectly) complaining to the author of several shorts.

Re: YouTube No Translation

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Post by matsemann »

encom wrote: post #218
magicalhippo wrote: post #162

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Windows took a nosedive with recent Windows releases, due to the "apps". Oh, you're using Norwegian keyboard layout? Well surely you want Norwegian display text to go with that. Oh, you're using US keyboard layout? Well surely you'll want US date and time formatting to go with that, along with the display text. All the while ignoring the setting that's been there for ages and worked reasonably well.

Danskjævel here, and I feel your pain. MS Windows has always had a pretty terrible danish translation. Partly because a lot of tech language translates poorly to danish, and partly because MS are lazy and incompetent. Back in Windows 2000 days, I found instances where "Windows" the product name was translated to "vinduer", the danish word for an actual window. I actually found a ~25 year old screenshot I took --> htt…

Hah, that "skjermbilde" is hilarious!

One thing I've always found a bit peculiar between Norwegian and Danish computer words, is that in Danish they're often not translated but the English word is just used. My Danish family would say words like computer, download, password, cloud, software, while I would say datamaskin, nedlasting, passord, sky, programvare. And then they would mock our silly Norwegian words, heh.

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Post by edwcross »

hengheng wrote: post #226
_bent wrote: post #199

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The Reddit translations are so insanely terrible. They are so much harder to read the the original English posts. It's like every word has been translated independently

The problem isn't the the translation isn't done well enough, but rather its underhanded nature that tries to sell a translated website as a genuine discussion.

Indeed. If I search Google for terms in my specific language other than English, I expect to find results that are relevant to my country. Auto-translated Reddit posts that "fake" being from that language are deeply annoying, because then I click them expecting to find some local references but in fact they are invariably talking about some US-specific market or situation that's useless to me.
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