AutoDub vs YouTube Auto Dubbing Two Different Things

AutoDub has no switch for it. As a creator you turn YouTube's auto dubbing off, or back on, in YouTube Studio on a computer: Settings, then Channel, then Advanced settings, where you uncheck Allow automatic dubbing and click Save. If you would rather approve each dub than stop them all, keep it on and check Manually review dubs before publishing.

The step-by-step with screenshots of the menu names, the YouTube Studio app path and the viewer side (a preferred audio language, switching the dub off on one video) are in our YouTube auto dubbing explainer, linked above and in the related pages below, which also lists the languages YouTube dubs from and into.

Source: YouTube Help, “Use automatic dubbing” (support.google.com/youtube/answer/15569972), checked 4 November 2026.

AutoDub is an AI dubbing web app at autodub.ai. You upload a MP4, MOV, M4V or WebM file of up to 30 minutes and 2 GB, or paste a public YouTube, TikTok or Instagram link, and pick the language to dub into from 70+. AutoDub transcribes and translates the speech, re-voices it in a clone of the speaker's own voice, matches the lips to the new words and gives you back an MP4 with SRT and VTT subtitles. Each dub is one language; on a paid plan you can pick up to five languages in one submission, and each becomes its own dub. Most dubs are ready in 5–15 minutes. You watch every dub in your dashboard first, and downloading it takes a plan or a one-time unlock. AutoDub has no script editor, so watch the dub before you publish it.

Searched for “AutoDub extension” or “AutoDub Chrome”? This AutoDub has nothing to install: it runs in your web browser like any website. A browser extension also called AutoDub, offered at autodub.net, describes itself as an extension “that dubs YouTube videos with AI voice”. It is a different product, and it is not ours.

Source: autodub.net home page, checked 4 November 2026.

Yes. The two never talk to each other, so you can leave YouTube's auto dubbing on and still dub videos with AutoDub. A sensible split is to let YouTube cover the languages it offers for your video and to use AutoDub where it offers none. YouTube Help lists English as the only target for a French, Japanese or Turkish video, and its list of 20 targets for an English video has no Chinese, Turkish or Vietnamese.

There are two ways to put an AutoDub dub on YouTube. You can upload it as its own video, for example on a channel in that language, and viewers see the lip-synced picture. Or you can add it to the original video as an extra audio track. YouTube says multi-language audio “is currently available to creators with access to Advanced features”, that files “must be in a supported audio-only file format and roughly the same length as your video”, and that “If an automatic dub already exists for a language, you must delete it before uploading your own version.” As an audio track the dub keeps your cloned voice, but not the lip-sync, because viewers see the original picture.

Source: YouTube Help, “Add Multi-language features to your videos” (support.google.com/youtube/answer/13338784) and “Use automatic dubbing” (support.google.com/youtube/answer/15569972), checked 4 November 2026.