YouTube integrates Aloud, an AI-based dubbing tool developed by Google’s Area 120, into its platform. This innovative feature assists content creators in dubbing their videos into various languages by using artificial voices. The announcement was made during the VidCon event on June 23, 2023.
Aloud is currently in beta testing and invites creators to sign up for early access. If you are interested in trying out Aloud, you can visit their website at and fill out a form. You can use Aloud to dub your English videos into Spanish or Portuguese. More languages will be available soon.
According to Google, 80% of the world doesn’t speak English, but many people use videos for education (46% of global viewers), entertainment, and information.
Subtitles can bridge this language gap, but not all videos have subtitles or captions, and even if they do, they may not be accurate or easy to follow.
That’s why Google created Aloud, a new product that helps you dub your videos into different languages with artificial voice. YouTube intends to make translated audio tracks resemble the creator’s voice, with more expression and lip sync.
Aloud is a user-friendly and affordable tool. All you have to do is upload your video, make any necessary adjustments to the transcript and translation, and let Aloud handle the rest.
Aloud uses AI to transcribe the user’s video into text and displays it on the screen for the user to review and edit. Aloud dubs your video quickly in minutes, unlike traditional methods that are slow and take hours or days (see the picture below).
Aloud also lets you edit the text and translation of your videos to make sure they are correct. You can also pick the voice of the narrator from different options.
The tool is integrated with YouTube, so you can publish your dubbed videos directly on the platform. YouTube hopes that this will help creators to expand their community and monetize their content.
Conclusion
Aloud is an AI tool that helps you dub your videos into different languages using artificial voices helping you reach more audiences and overcome the language barrier in videos.
It uses AI to transcribe, translate, and dub videos into different languages using artificial voices.
There’s no charge to dub videos with Aloud.
Learn more:
- News source: “YouTube is getting AI-powered dubbing” (on The Verge)
- “Overcoming the language barrier in videos with Aloud” (on The Keyword by Google)
- Project page
