Uhhh…. Yes it does. I live in Spain and speak English, I’m not signed in, it’s down at the bottom of their page under settings or it will ask you like you see below. No vpn needed. And for apps on your phone it uses the regional setting, but most you can choose the default language in app settings.
I do live in Spain and speak English too and it mixes English and Spanish. I have it set for both interface and results in English.
It is most egregious when looking for video games and products as their names appear in Spanish websites.
Adding the word “review” doesn’t always filter out the Spanish pages as it is adopted in tech websites.
EDIT: Typos
My current problem with Google (and a problem that I never thought I would have wtfuck) is when I watch some YouTube videos in French the AI auto translates the goddamn audio to English. I don’t want an AI audio translation of the fucking audio and there is no way to set the default not to do that. I have to manually go into the video EVERY TIME IT DOES IT to put it back to the original sound. It’ll create new audio but I can’t get half the videos to show the in language subtitles for non-english videos. SO DUMB.
This is one of the stupidest “features” in the history of computing. It’s like google doesn’t believe in bilingual people. “If you speak English, there’s no way you could also understand French!”
Which is extra ironic since it’s all programmed by bi+lingual Indians lol.
If you’re watching on mobile, YouTube Morphe has the option to disable the audio translation. You can even make a dedicated button for it in the player in case it gets toggled on again. The app also blocks ads and has SponsorBlock, DeArrow, and an AI slop filter built right in.
solution: newpipe/freetube
I wonder if anyone’s made an extension to automatically disable AI auto dub?
Does the “app language” not do this for you?
Lol! You can literally set your preferred language in “settings”.
You understood it wrong. The setting is in the browser itself. Just use anything except google. Maybe one day they will see the 0.001% dip in search and change it
Because even for that multi billion dollar company their developers still don’t understand that country isn’t equal to language preference. This has been an issue since the 90’s that still isn’t solved.
DuckDuckGo
Click on your profile bubble. On Mobile it’s in the top right hand corner. Go to settings. Go to other settings. Language and region can be set manually.
I use a plugin for that:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/stay-in-my-language-google/
How about https://www.google.com/preferences?lang=1 ???
You still use google?
I use it to make life harder for anyone trying to collect my data out of sheer spite.
yup. most things dont have this. try buying an audio book in another language other than english. heck just buying a reading book is hard enough. or getting one that is both without having to buy it twice or not available in both.
I just bought a recent ebook on Kobo. Two listings for different prices with EVERYTHING on the listing identical except the more expensive one had 2 authors. I had to look up separately that the second author is actually a translator and the more expensive book was a translation. The store listing didn’t even have the language! I had to guess by the ethnicity of the translator’s name 🤦🤦🤦
Some streaming services only offer translation subtitles related to the primary language of where you are.
So if I’m in Germany and want to watch a Swedish crime drama all i can get are German subs.
But if i use a vpn to say I’m in England… the English subs are magically available.
(Provided they also have the license to play the show in England).
Seems like a good workaround. Why is the superior tone necessary?
Yeah! Fuck!
