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My own voice in another language! (YouTube Dubbing Upgrade)
I dubbed one of my videos using YouTube’s Multi-language Audio and even though the result was only good enough, I believe it ended up much better than the AI alternative.
The video below has two audio tracks recorded by me: the original in Portuguese and an additional one in English. If your YouTube account isn’t set to Portuguese, you should be hearing it in English.
This Multi-language Audio feature is a much better option in comparison to the AI-created auto-dubbing, but it is a lot of work. I spent the morning doing some tests, and I noticed that to achieve a good enough video, a lot of preparation has to be done.
To upload your own dubbing track, go to the
Video Detailspage on YouTube Studio, selectLanguages, then click theAdd languagebutton, choose the language, and, finally, click onAddnext toDubto upload your file.
At least for now, it doesn’t look like YouTube is doing anything to make sure one track is perfectly aligned with the other. It even recommends having dubbed audios with the same length as the original. This means I had to script the video, record it in one language, and then, when recording the other, I had to make sure it would end up at around the same duration.
It may not look like it, but that was a ton of work. And this is as basic as a video can get. The amount of work it would take to do this on one of my how-to videos, for example, is too much compared to just recording two separate videos. And that’s what I believe YouTube should be doing.
Creators who speak and record in more than one language should be able to upload entire videos in different languages. Depending on the settings of who’s watching, YouTube would play the better-matching video. That would be a game changer.
For now, I’ll only be dubbing just some of my videos - most likely the ones where I’m sharing the screen most of the time.
Nevertheless, this is one more important step towards making creators' content reachable by people from anywhere in the world.
My YouTube channel currently has 7373 followers, which is cool because I love round numbers, sequences, and repetition. And 73 has a special meaning for me, but don’t let that stop you. If you haven’t subscribed yet, and you like what I do, please subscribe.
It’s November 4th, and I published four videos. Based on the numbers, it appears that my December challenge is doing well. The problem is the current production pace. Each video is taking me a long time to finish. But I’m not giving up so easily.
I’ve been keeping the original Final Cut files of all of my YouTube videos, and I do occasionally need and use them for future projects. However, storage for this is starting to become a little too expensive, and I came up with an idea.
Keep the originals for a few months, then delete them and only archive the final video and thumbnail. The question I’ve been asking myself for the last couple of days is: how many months is a few months? Three? Six? One year?
Today, I woke up to a milestone message sent by YouTube. It took me a while to do what big channels do in a day or a single video, but it means a lot to me. You guys are absolutely outstanding. Thank you for being there and helping me grow my channel.
Hi there! If you like what I share on my YouTube channel, kindly subscribe to it. We are just a hair away from 7K subscribers.: https://youtube.com/@vladcampos
Thank you to all 5K of you! 🎉
A few days ago, my YouTube channel reached a milestone of 5K subscribers. That would never be possible without you. Thank you so much!
My first channel, in Portuguese, has already crossed 100K subscribers a good while ago, but what keeps me going on both channels is always the community.
You are absolutely amazing and I hope you’re still here at 10K.