YouTube tests automatic translation feature to scroll through videos in native languages

YouTube's automatic translation feature appeared for some users as a pop-up notification, for both desktop as well as the mobile app version. These users saw the translations for video titles, descriptions and closed captions.

YouTube is testing an automatic translation feature that will let users scroll through in their native language. The feature appeared for some users as a pop-up notification, for both the web interface on the desktop as well as the mobile app version. These users saw the translations for video titles, descriptions and closed captions. The automatic translation feature translates the titles and descriptions on YouTube videos into regional languages. The automatic translation feature is a server-side update and so far the translations have taken place from English to Portuguese and Turkish, according to a report by Android Police. Last year in September, YouTube discontinued community captions citing spam and abuse. The community captions enabled users to contribute translations for video titles or submit descriptions, closed captions, or subtitles. Users had to rely on video creators for manually uploaded captions. YouTube had also noted that it would not disable the auto-generated captions.