[Feature Request]: Please add an option to disable AI audio dubbing

[wurmtal868]

Describe the feature you'd like to request

I'm a native German speaker but also fluent in English.
I watch popular channels from German and English speaking countries.
Lately more and more videos get automatically audio dubbed by AI.
The only way to watch videos in the original version is switching the player's audio language between German and English.
Lately it feels like I have to switch for every video I watch, which is annoying like watching advertisements.
An option to pick the original video language would be nice.

Describe the solution you'd like

Please add an option to disable AI audio dubbing!

Describe alternatives you've considered

Enable multiple audio language picks in the player settings and switch to the original language when the video language matches one of the picks.

[Nadury16]

Yes please, it’s really annoying. I have it selected to None and it translates to french and I don’t even speak it

[bionictom]

Agreed. It is a big annoyance how that changed a couple of weeks ago.

[paull27]

What helped me was: settings - player - audio language - none

[Moscha666]

What helped me was: settings - player - audio language - none

Already tried that. Did Not Help for me (German First language, English second language).

An Option to quick select language in Player or much better: Disable use/selection of AI Translated Audio Tracks would be better.

Also tried to add English as a second language to Google Account, but was already there.

[lvfmc85]

I’m experiencing the same issue, and setting the audio language to 'none' produces strange results. I have channels in English, Portuguese, and Spanish, and I prefer to watch them in their original audio. When I select 'none' as the audio language, some of my English channels play German translations, and some Portuguese and Spanish channels play English translations. Ideally, the 'none' option would default to the original audio, but that doesn't happen. It’s annoying to deal with these automatic AI translations and have to manually change the audio every time I watch content in a different language.

[N3orun]

+1 for that. This feature is so annoying. Would love to see that option here.

[sbirulicchio95]

Same Here. It's really really annoying. We need a global feature to disable it once for all.

[totoro452]

And same here.
PLEASE :-)

[Section25]

Possibly not related but I didn't want to start a new feature request; I'd love to see a way to completely filter out AI and/or text-to-speech content.

I don't know how feasible this might be but there is an ad-blocker, SponsorBlock and DeArrow so maybe it could be achieved.

[M4SSK]

Indeed, this is getting really annoying.
I managed to minimize the problem for some time by choosing "Cherokee" as default audio language. As there was almost never an audio dubbing track for this language, Youtube played the original audio. But there seems to be a new trend of AI dubbing that defaults to English AI dubbing if anything other than the original language is selected !

One solution, if completely disabling AI dubbing is not possible, would be to add the option to remember the audio track selected for each channel (the same way you can already remember the subtitles languages for each channel individually)