How to Turn OFF Auto Dubbing on YouTube Videos

When watching a YouTube video, you may have noticed that it occasionally plays with a robotic-sounding dubbed voice. That’s because YouTube has released a new auto-dubbing feature that automatically dubs the audio to your regional audio.

This feature is a nightmare for bilingual people. For example, my native language is Hindi, but I don’t want to consume English videos with Hindi auto-dubbing. It just sounds odd. Fortunately, there’s a way to disable this feature.

Here’s how to turn off auto dubbing on YouTube videos.

Disable auto dubbing on YouTube videos

This tutorial has two sections. In the first section, I will show you how to turn off YouTube auto dubbing as a viewer.

1. To turn off auto dubbing on YouTube, play a video and then tap the settings icon.

2. Tap the Audio Track option and choose the original track option.

That’s it. While there doesn’t seem to be a global option, I have noticed that once you set the original audio version for a video, the setting applies to all your future videos.

Turn off auto dubbing for your videos from YouTube Studio

If you are a YouTube creator and you don’t want the auto-dubbing feature activated on your videos, you can turn it off.

1 Open YouTube in a browser on your computer, click on the profile icon, and open YouTube Studio.

2. Click the Settings icon and open the Upload Defaults settings.

3. Open the Advanced settings page.

4. Scroll down to the Allow Automatic Dubbing feature and click the checkbox next to it to turn off the auto-dubbing feature.

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