YouTube announces new features in 13 languages

YouTube has announced new audio features, with additional improvements rolling out in the coming months, including automatic translation in supported languages ​​on Android and iOS.

Creators can now enable live auto-captions for any live stream in English to make the live stream easier to access. This feature was previously only available to content creators with more than 1,000 subscribers, according to Techcrunch.

YouTube plans to expand the auto-captions feature to include all 13 supported caption languages ​​in the coming months, which are Dutch, English, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, and also Russian, Spanish, Turkish, and Vietnamese.

The company is also currently testing the ability to add multiple audio tracks to videos to help provide multilingual audio to an international audience along with descriptive audio for people with visual impairments. The feature is currently available to a small group of content makers, and YouTube plans to roll out the feature more widely in the next quarter of the year.

YouTube will also roll out automatic subtitles in supported languages ​​on Android and iOS later this year. The feature is currently only available on the desktop version.

Moreover, YouTube plans to give users the option to search through text on Android and iOS, while later this year YouTube will test the ability for users to search for specific keywords within text on mobile. .

In September, Google started to stop a number of its most popular apps, including Gmail, Calendar, Google Maps, and YouTube, from working on some older Android smartphones.

A Google report revealed, according to Russia Today, quoting the Express newspaper, that anyone with a smartphone running Android 2.3 will be affected by the change.

The mobile operating system, which launched under the "Gingerbread" brand, was first introduced in December 2010. Google says it is now withdrawing support for the platform "as part of our efforts to keep our users safe."

According to the report, starting tomorrow, Monday, September 27, Google is taking another step forward by confirming plans to prevent all users from logging into these tools with a Google account.

To continue using these apps, you will need to update your smartphone to Android 3.0. However, since not all devices running Android 2.3 can move to the next version of the operating system, some users will not be able to use these apps again.

If you cannot purchase a new device, Google offers an alternative solution, using a web browser on Android, where it will be possible to access some of these Google services. However, the apps will be permanently blocked on your phone.