As first reported by Android Police, some users have reported that the desktop and mobile versions of YouTube have begun showing options for automatic translation of titles. The videos spotted by users displays the titles, descriptions, and closed captions all translated automatically.
YouTube titles auto-translated into SpanishThose users who submitted these screenshots to Android Police have so far only confirmed that auto translation on YouTube is being tested for users with their primary languages set to either Portuguese, Spanish, or Turkish. A video with translated titles shows a small translation icon that precedes the title.
If you have YouTube in different languages, you now get the option to translate the comments! (In english, the text says: “Translate to language: Czech”). The Youtube API v3.0 allows you the following parameters. TextFormat - This parameter indicates whether the API should return comments formatted as HTML or as plain text. The default value is html. VideoId - The Youtube Video ID you want to fetch comments for ( if you dont know your Youtube Video ID, you can get one from Youtube Video ID Finder).
YouTube Videos translated into Portuguese and Turkish
How to Get the Transcript of a YouTube Video on Phones Phones don’t have the same option to find the transcript of a YouTube video as computers. Therefore, you can’t turn it on and see it on.
The change appears to be happening on the server end, so updating the app likely won’t have an effect on enabling the auto-translate feature. Automatic translation of videos in English gives videos the potential to reach more audiences and opens accessibility for English videos to non-English speakers.
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Reader comments
- showa730
- XRW
I really hate what youtube did with the auto-translate. As I am an avid user of youtube, found it very disturbing. The first thing that comes to my mind, 'I'm not even watching that video', 'learn my language better' ...
- Anonymous
- YV@
I'm Japanese and just say NO. Japanese is a one of difficult languege and automatic translations are 100% piece of crap. I added a English on my Gmail account and switched YouTube's interface language. But tody, ALWAYS TRANSLATED EVEN...
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- Anonymous
- uEC
Oh so that's why some of the video's titles are jacked, really looking forward when i can disable this permanently.