YouTube videos come in all kinds of languages, although thankfully there are those in the community who are more than happy to help create subtitles in various languages so that we can enjoy foreign language videos and still understand what’s going on. However titles and descriptions are still for the most part left out of this translation process.
Sure, there are YouTubers out there who do it themselves or hire others to do it for them, but the good news is that YouTube is now allowing users to use Community Contributions to translate video titles and descriptions. This means that you should in theory be able to search for videos in other languages using your native language.
According to YouTube, “Today, we’re excited to announce that you can now use Community Contributions to translate your video’s titles and descriptions in addition to your captions. This means you’re only a few clicks away from having viewers translate your videos so more people around the world easily discover, understand, and ultimately fall in love with your content.”
Ultimately this should open the door to more videos from content creators around the world, and videos that you might have never found simply because of the language barrier, although we guess the onus now falls on the contributors to help translate videos on behalf of their creators.
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