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Google-owned YouTube has announced the introduction of an artificial intelligence (AI) dubbing tool that will make it easier for creators to dub their videos into other languages.
The company announced Thursday at VidCon, an annual convention for fans, creators, executives and online brands, that it will bring in a team from Google’s Area 120 incubator’s AI-powered dubbing service, Aloud, according to The The Verge reported.
According to Aloud’s website, the tool will transcribe the video and provide the transcription for creators to review and edit.
Then translate and generate the dubbing.
Amjad Hanif, YouTube’s vice president of creator products, said in a statement that the video-sharing platform is already testing the tool with “hundreds” of creators.
Hanif also said that Aloud currently supports “a few” languages, but that “more languages” will be supported in the future.
The AI-powered dubbing service is currently available in English, Spanish and Portuguese, said spokeswoman Jessica Gibby.
YouTube is “working on adding more expressions and lip-syncing to make the translated audio tracks sound like the creator’s voice,” Hanif said.
However, Gibby said those features are slated for next year.
Meanwhile, the video-sharing platform announced in February that it would begin supporting multilingual audio tracks, allowing creators to dub new and existing videos in different languages. – IANS
