This year, Google updates YouTube with new functions to improve the user experience. Some of them are exclusive to Premium users and to reduce it, on iPhones there is a quality boost for 1080p resolution.
However, recently an option has been released that content creators can leverage to make their videos easier to access. it’s about the different audio tracks in videos, and we will tell you how to activate it to enjoy a video in English, for example, dubbed in Spanish. And no, you don’t need to be a YouTube beta user or anything like that.
How to Change the Audio Track on YouTube
This feature is available on all platforms on which YouTube is available and, in addition, it seems that it automatically detects your language to change the audio track of the video.
And the function is exactly what you think: As if it were a movie on Blu-Ray or any streaming video platform, YouTube lets you switch the audio track between the original language and as much as the creator of content decided to implement.
To change the audio track of a videoyou just need to click the gear icon to access the options and find the “Audio Track” option.
Nothing in the video thumbnail indicates that it is translated.
This is one of the most interesting accessibility options, but unfortunately we’ve only seen it on some of the biggest youtubers. Mr. Beast takes advantage of the feature quite well, but others with millions of subscribers have used it in a few videos.
Tech YouTuber Marques Brownlee took advantage of the option in a video to show off the shoes he designed or in the unboxing of a $40,000 iPhone. And that’s it, something important that needs to be said is that this is not an automatic translation. As with manual subtitles, the content creator must actively add an audio track.
Although at the moment it is not very widespread, we will see if in the future, and with the help of some of Google’s artificial intelligence, automatic translation into several languages can be carried out. For now, we will have to trust our favorite youtubers to take advantage of the option.
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