In this guide, we will show you the steps to turn off YouTube’s automatic translation. There’s no brownie point in guessing that the streaming service from the Silicon Valley giant is right there at the top, enjoying the kind of dominance [and monopoly] that is hardly seen in any other domain. While it manages to checkmark most of the useful prerequisites with ease, there are a few infuriating ones that it simply refuses to address.
One such tweak is the automatic translation concerning video, titles, descriptions, and even audio dubbing. This is one feature over which users have no control whatsoever but at the end of the day, it’s the users [content creators to be more specific] only who end up as the suffering party. For instance, here’s what one user had to say [LargeSun on Reddit]
YouTube’s AI is replacing my carefully written video titles with auto-translated file names, and they don’t seem to care.
For example, one of my video file names is:
📁 “paneles solares en casa.mp4”But the actual video title I set is:
🎥 “NUESTROS PRIMEROS DÍAS EN GUATEMALA 🇬🇹💖 | Todo esto hicimos 😱😱🤭”Yet, when people see the video on YouTube, the public title shows up as:
⚠️ “Solar panel for the house”YouTube’s algorithm grabs the file name instead of the actual title, then translates it and displays it to viewers instead of what I actually wrote. This is affecting hundreds of thousands of potential viewers and completely misrepresenting my content.
If you are also in the same boat and are infuriated with the poor, misleading, and annoying translation that this AI is carrying out, then this guide is just tailor-made for you. Follow along with the steps to turn off this half-baked feature once and for all.
How to Turn off Automatic YouTube Video, Title, and Description Translation
To get this job done, simply download and install the YouTube No Translation extension from GitHub or via the Firefox/Chrome web store, depending on the browser you use. Once downloaded, launch it. It will automatically start running in the backend and will do its job. You can now open YouTube and stream without any hassle.
That’s it/ These were the steps to turn off YouTube’s automatic translation concerning video, titles, descriptions, and audio dubbing. If you have any queries concerning the aforementioned steps, do let us know in the comments. We will get back to you with a solution as soon as possible.
