Really starting to dislike the thing where YouTube seems to (auto generate?) audio on videos in additional languages, and somehow ends up with the non-original foreign language being the default audio language.
This sucks with AirPlay playback which AFAICT will only play back the 0th audio track: okay when that’s the original audio, but frustrating when it’s some random auto-translation (usually French or Italian as best I can tell).
The original language should be the 0th audio track 🤦🏻♂️
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Oh joy, the YouTube auto-dubbing feature is apparently generally available (for the type of videos I watch) as of a few days ago. Which presumably means many more videos are going to be infected with additional random audio channels 😔
So far the only work arounds I’ve found are (a) don’t AirPlay (ie play on local screen or via a cable to TV), or (b) screen mirroring of local screen (which usually messes up the aspect ratios). Both let you choose the audio channel.
https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/10/youtubes-new-auto-dubbing-feature-is-now-available-for-knowledge-focused-content/
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@ewenmcneill yeah they've not implemented it well have they?
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@PetraOleum :-/
I’m not sure how they’re sorting the audio tracks returned (they’re at least displayed locally in a consistent order), but not forcing “original audio” to be first seems like quite an oversight (it displays mid list 🤦🏻♂️).
Possibly there’ll be enough outcry now many videos are getting (Google Gemini AI) foreign language audio dubbing added that someone at Google/YouTube will tweak the order of the audio track list to force the original audio to be first 🙏
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