For about a year now, it has been available in YouTube a new function that many of its users still do not know about. This is a tool called "Audio track" allowing change the language of a YouTube video. We explain all the details of how it works in this post.
Thanks to this new function, YouTubers have the possibility of adding dubbed audios in several languages, something very interesting for be able to reach more people. We can say that it is an equally interesting development, both for content creators and for users, who can see it in the language they prefer. Of course, the platform also wins from all this.
YouTubers have welcomed this new idea with enthusiasm, since this saves them the work of creating new channels in various languages so that their videos reach a larger audience. For its part, with just a couple of clicks, any user can change the audio language of a YouTube video and choose the language of their native language or other languages that they understand or want to practice. All very simple and very practical.
The best of all is that You don't have to pay anything or be part of YouTube Premium to access the “Audio Track” tool. This is available to the entire community and is even enabled on the web platform for computers.
Change the language of a YouTube video: this is how it's done
Let's see how this new YouTube tool works. The following instructions are aimed at users or consumers of videos on the platform. These are the steps to follow.
- Firstly, we open the YouTube application on your mobile, tablet or computer.
- Then we go to a video that offers other audio tracks.*
- We press or click on the gear wheel icon (the settings one), which is located in the upper right corner of the screen.
- Among the options shown in the drop-down menu, we select the one "Audio track".
- Finally, we choose the language in which you want to listen to the content among the options offered.
(*) Of course, we will only be able to enjoy this possibility on those channels that have implemented the function of adding dubbing of videos in other languages. The percentage of these channels is still small, but it is growing day by day. It is to be expected that what is today a simple extra option will become a widespread practice over time.
Better than subtitles
As we said, More and more YouTube creators are daring to introduce this possibility into their channels.. They know well that the more languages they use to disseminate their creations, the more people will access them.
Until relatively recently, the best option that YouTubers had was to put subtitles in their videos. This is still possible. And it works, although the possibility of offering audio in other languages for our YouTube videos is even more attractive.
As always, the key to success is find an efficient way to do it: the translation has to be good and reliable. There are many tools available on the Internet to carry out this task, but of course, not all of them offer us the minimum quality we are looking for.
Best options to dub the language of a YouTube video
The possibility of doing so exists, it is true, but dubbing of YouTube videos is not generated by itself. This task corresponds to the creator of the video, and it is not exactly a simple job: you have to translate the video script, record the voices, do the mixing...
In general, investment in resources and professionals is required. That is the main obstacle that the most modest YouTubers face. Can try to do it at home, with its own resources, but the normal thing is that in this way the result lacks the quality and professionalism that is sought.
These are some options to dub the audios of our videos and offer them to our audience with a quality result:
Fast
Rask AI Localization is a video translation solution designed for YouTube that uses artificial intelligence and allows us to work with no less than 130 languages.
This tool can help us in different ways. For example, it can scan our own voice and then, through AI, generate audio translated into the chosen language. You can also simply convert text to speech using technology Text-to-voice. In both cases, the results are excellent.
Link: Fast
Vidby
This second tool is not as powerful as the previous one, although it is also true that its rates are much cheaper. Vidby It offers a lot of flexibility, since it allows us to choose between four levels of translation using artificial intelligence, with different degrees of precision.
Also noteworthy is the video and audio synchronization, with the possibility of controlling the dubbing speed, as well as its ability to distinguish between voces of children, adolescents and the elderly. There are more than 70 languages available in this tool.
Link: Vidby
How to upload tracks in multiple languages on a YouTube channel
If you are the owner of a YouTube channel and you have found a way to dub the audios of your videos into other languages (either by yourself or using an external resource such as those in the previous section), all that remains is to upload the new tracks to the channel. Important: to execute this action we will have to use YouTube Studio. This is how to proceed:
- We log in to YouTube Studio (You have to do it from a computer).
- select "Subtitle" in the menu on the left.
- Then we click on the video we want to edit.
- We click on «Add language» and we select the one that corresponds to our new audio track.
- Then we will "Audio" and click on "Add".
- Next we choose "Select File" and we choose the one we want to upload.
- Finally, we click on "To post".
Conclusion
Is it worth translating our YouTube videos into other languages? Of course! It is the best way to reach more people and gain audience, add new subscribers and obtain other benefits. You just have to know how to do it well, with a minimum of quality.