YouTube has announced a major expansion of its auto-dubbing capabilities, signaling a strong push towards making content more accessible and discoverable across global audiences. The latest updates focus on wider language support, improved speech realism, and enhanced controls for both creators and viewers.

Auto-dubbing on YouTube is now available in 27 languages, significantly broadening the reach of creator content beyond native-language audiences. The feature is already seeing strong traction, with the platform reporting over six million daily viewers in December who watched at least 10 minutes of auto-dubbed videos. This highlights a growing appetite for multilingual content consumption.

To improve viewing quality, YouTube has introduced Expressive Speech across eight languages, including English, Hindi, Spanish and French. Unlike basic translations, this feature aims to better capture a creator’s tone, emotion and energy, making dubbed content feel more natural and engaging.

On the viewer side, YouTube has rolled out a new Preferred Language setting. While the platform previously selected languages automatically based on watch history, users can now choose whether they want to watch dubbed videos or stick to the original audio, offering greater personalization and control.

YouTube is also piloting Lip Sync technology, which aligns translated audio with a speaker’s lip movements. This is designed to reduce the disconnect often felt in dubbed videos and create a more seamless viewing experience.

For creators, YouTube has introduced smart filtering to identify videos unsuitable for dubbing, such as music-heavy or silent content. Importantly, the platform clarified that auto-dubbing does not hurt discoverability and may even help videos reach new markets. Creators retain full control, with the option to upload custom dubs or disable the feature altogether.

With these updates, YouTube is clearly positioning auto-dubbing as a core tool for global storytelling at scale.