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I hadn’t set the video language on YouTube, so automatic subtitles weren’t generated. Adding the correct language (English) enables YouTube’s auto‑captioning, which helps non‑native speakers and viewers watching at faster speeds. It’s a simple fix that improves accessibility and can boost growth.
Yes, I watch anime with subtitles 100% of the time. It takes work, but it's interesting. I learned to read by playing Pokémon as a kid, where the game used subtitles instead of audio, forcing me to read quickly. Since then I've read everything with subtitles my whole life, which I think makes me a faster and better reader because the text only appears briefly, training my mind to read fast. When I watch anime in Japanese with subtitles, I have to focus and can read subtitles quickly, which likely contributes to my fast reading speed. I also find dub voices annoying and think it would be cool to have AI clone the original voice actors.
We use an AI agent to automatically publish these videos, and it looks like the agent failed to process the audio for this segment. We’re also hiding the user from that channel as a precaution. I’m not entirely sure what went wrong, but I apologize for the glitch.
I'm introducing dubbing to my videos; I've done it on my main channel with success. YouTube doesn't let you dub yourself—you need to reach a certain channel size first—but I will definitely be dubbing these videos soon.
YouTube native dubbing is unfortunately not very good. You can't really do it for long-form courses automatically, so you have to do it yourself, and that's what I've been doing. I've been using ElevenLabs. It's been okay. The issue is obviously it's all flagged as AI because I'm using an AI voice dubbing tool, but it's not the end of the world. We've also experimented with specific dubbing channels like Mix Ride Bengali, for instance, where I dub and do some lip sync stuff. These are all being flagged as AI and there's like zero performance on them, which fucking blows. So I'm probably going to redo that. I'm not 100% sure.