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Auto Translate Now Available For Videos With Captions
The YouTube Team, YouTube Blog, 2008
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- What it is
- YouTube's launch post for auto translate, which applies Google Translate to the caption tracks that uploaders add to a video.
- How much weight it carries
- The company's own announcement from November 2008. The feature has changed since, and today's menus may differ, so the post shows how the feature was designed, not its current steps.
Facts taken from this source
- YouTube's 2008 launch post says auto translate adds machine translation to the caption tracks that uploaders add to a video.
“Google Translate adds real-time machine translation to any caption tracks you upload.” (Launch post, paragraph on auto translate)