What Is Dubbing vs Subtitling?
Dubbing replaces a video’s speech with a recording in another language; subtitling keeps the original voice and shows the translation as text on screen.
A dubbed video sounds as if it were made in the viewer’s language, which suits people who watch on a phone, children and viewers who do not like to read on screen. Subtitles keep the original voice and are cheaper and faster to make, but ask the viewer to read.
YouTube offers both. Its automatic dubbing generates translated audio tracks and labels them “auto-dubbed”, with some languages that copy the original speaker’s pitch and intonation. Its multi-language audio lets creators upload their own dubbed tracks to one video or Short; viewers hear their preferred language by default and can switch in the player.
For a creator, dubbing reaches viewers in another language with the same video, and subtitles reach them more cheaply. Clip-Short’s Dub speaks a clip again in English, Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic, French or German, one voice per speaker, with captions in the new language.
How to dub a video into another language
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