@alyx tried this today with an Italian video, better than nothing.
I've seen really good AI dubs of videos, but I think those are too costly to run at scale for free. The YouTube one right now is not amazing, but being able to understand the content at all is good.
I imagine they're getting a transcript from the audio, translating that and then putting a text-to-speech on it. A paid app can do much better, and instead of working on some videos it would work on all videos you pick as a user.
@leo
Honestly, I'd be satisfied if they just gave people better translated captions. Last time I tried even just regular auto transcribed (not translated) captions, they were still bad. I don't need full dubbing if there's some foreign language thing I'm interested in. Good subtitles are more than enough.
@leo
Had a quick look just now, cause I haven't tested them in a while. I think English transcriptions have gotten noticeably better. Only tried 1 video right now, but it was on point. No complaints.
But I tried one in my native language too, and... not good enough to try to translate them. You kinda need perfect transcripts if you want to put into a translation model. Still, a bit better than I expected.
I expect more popular languages like German and French to be worked on more though, and they're probably at good enough level to do the dubbing. But I don't speak other languages to be able to make a judgement on how good things are.