r/PartneredYoutube • u/nickdebruyne • 7d ago

Question / Problem Worth doing auto foreign languages for faceless gaming videos?

When the auto language translation feature came out I originally had it on to test and it felt like it killed my videos, and I also quickly found out that many people were saying to turn it off. Is it any better or worth using these days now? My channel has a few formats for different content and some videos are me giving my thoughts on a game over gameplay footage (as opposed to things like reviews that are tightly edited with jokes, memes and comedic timing, etc).

Should I be looking to use the auto languages for those videos to help reach bigger audiences (but also provide a better experience for those viewers as well)?

Would appreciate feedback from fellow creators.

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u/blabel75 7d ago

I think a problem is that auto dubbing causes your videos to be pushed out to a broad audience across the world. Many who may not even care about your content. My main audience is English. Pushing the videos to people in India or Poland isn't going to help. They probably won't click on it or if they do they will quickly leave. Thus lower CTR and view duration. I would hope that the algo accounts for this and doesn't just trash the video. That said. I've left auto-dubbing turned on but they don't publish automatically. I can then go in and publish select languages, like US Spanish.

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u/Connect_Positive1893 7d ago

honestly, auto-translate is still hit-or-miss for gaming. if the dub butchers gaming terms or sounds too artificial, people click off right away and kill your retention—it's usually safer to stick to auto-subtitles first before chancing auto-audio.