How to review or remove an automatic dub from your YouTube video

If you manage a channel and find an automatic dub you do not want on one of your videos, listen to it before choosing what to do. Open YouTube Studio on a computer to review the track, unpublish it so viewers cannot access it, or delete it. You can also correct the original language if it was set incorrectly.

Listen to and review the dub

In YouTube Studio, open Content and select the video. Go to Languages and click the language for the dub you want to check. In the Preview menu below the video, select that language and play the video.

To view the transcript, find the language in the Audio row below the description. Open the audio options menu and select Review. YouTube does not let you edit automatic dubs directly. If you find an error, you can hide the track or correct the original language when it was set incorrectly.

YouTube’s automatic dubbing help documents previewing a dub and reviewing its transcript on a computer.

Unpublish or delete the dub

In Content, open the video and go to Languages. Hover over the language for the dub and open the menu in the Audio column. Choose based on what you want to happen:

• Unpublish hides the track from viewers. You can publish it again later.
• Delete removes the track, and you cannot publish that track again. Treat this as an irreversible action.

Each action applies to one track. If the video has dubs in several languages, manage each language you want to change. YouTube’s help explains how to unpublish or delete a dub.

Correct the original language if it is wrong

If the video’s source language was set incorrectly, automatic translations may be wrong. YouTube says automatic dubs cannot be edited directly. If a dub was mistranslated, updating the video’s original language causes the dubs to be generated again automatically.

In YouTube Studio, open Content and select the video. Scroll down to Show more. Under Language and captions certification, choose the video’s actual language and save. YouTube’s help for changing the language of an uploaded video describes this path.

When the new track appears, return to Languages and listen before leaving it published. YouTube notes that dub quality can vary by language and that automatic dubs may contain errors.

Set how future dubs are published

To review future dubs before publication, open Settings in YouTube Studio, select Channel, then Advanced settings. Under automatic dubbing, check Manually review dubs before publishing and save. Allow automatic dubbing must remain on for this review option.

To turn off automatic dubbing for the channel, uncheck Allow automatic dubbing in the same settings and save. This changes the channel setting; manage tracks that already exist separately in Content → video → Languages.

The YouTube Solution for translating video titles and descriptions covers localized text. That task does not change audio tracks. This page is for managing videos you uploaded to your channel; switching tracks while watching a video is a viewer action.

If you are watching another channel’s video and only want to change what you hear, follow the steps to hear original audio on YouTube and set your preferred languages.

If the video’s source language was set incorrectly, see change a video’s original language in YouTube Studio.