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lutusp ◴[29 Jun 25 16:26 UTC] No.44414293[source]▶

> ... The voice generators used by YouTube sound extremely robotic and are sometimes accelerated to 1.5 times the original speed

This might only apply to German, notorious for requiring more syllables to convey a given idea than, say, French or English.

Nevertheless, it's absurd that YouTube doesn't provide an easier way to disable this "feature".

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1. zihotki ◴[29 Jun 25 17:28 UTC] No.44414776[source]▶

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I noticed the same with German. And often generators have to wait because some important piece of the sentence has to be at the end in German. It's happening less in Dutch videos

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