YouTube Shorts adds TikTok-style artificial voiceovers

YouTube announced a set of new features for YouTube Shorts, some of which are already available, like a new text-to-speech video narration that lets you add artificial narration. On TikTok, these are the sometimes surprisingly robotic voices you hear a lot in videos with something to promote.

The process for adding them is very similar to TikTok, in fact: after creating some text, you’ll tap a new “add voice” icon which, in Shorts, is in the top left corner of the screen and it will choose the voice you want. he wants. YouTube only offers four voices to choose from at the moment, while TikTok has… a few more.

YouTube says it’s also rolling out auto-generated captions that you can add to a video without having to switch to another app like CapCut. Just like YouTube Shorts’ existing manual text overlay feature, you can change the style of your subtitles using a selection of fonts and colors.

The company also added a new set of Minecraft effects – a green screen gaming-themed background and a minigame called Minecraft Rush.