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What a horrible video is this, with the robotic translated AI voiceover?

Update: Ah, weird, if I watch the non-embedded one on youtube it is the original in English with normal sound. It's the one embedded on his web site which has AI translation to German.

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That's not the video's fault, but YouTube's. YouTube has started adding automatic AI voiceover translations to all videos, unless the uploader explicitly disables them for each single video. It's opt-out and the option is well-hidden, so most uploaders will not disable it.

As an end user, there's nothing you can do to prevent from seeing them. But you can change the audio track to the original while the video is playing.

> YouTube has started adding automatic AI voiceover translations to all videos, unless the uploader explicitly disables them for each single video.

WHAT?!? It a time when there is a growing animus towards AI generated content, for many content creators this would be tantamount to slander

https://github.com/YouG-o/YouTube_No_Translation

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