You can only change the language of a video that you uploaded. Learn how to check for available captions when watching videos in different languages.
The video language setting is a feature used to help YouTube and contributors understand the original language of your video. This feature helps when adding subtitles and captions to YouTube videos. It’s also used to help viewers find videos in their language.
Change video language
You can change the language of your uploaded video if it's been incorrectly set:
- Sign in to YouTube Studio
.
- From the left menu, select Content
.
- Click a video’s title or thumbnail.
- Scroll down and click SHOW MORE.
- Under "Language and captions certification," choose the intended language of your video, its title and description.
- You can also change the subtitles of your video. Learn how to change the language of your video's subtitles.
- To save the changes you made, click the SAVE button at the top of the page.
Note: If you change the setting for the original language of your video, the future translated subtitles will use the new language as the source for translations. Your published and draft subtitles and closed captions won't be affected.
Set dubbing language preferences for your channel
You can turn automatic dubbing on or off for your entire channel and choose how your translated audio tracks are published.
- Sign in to YouTube Studio
- In the left menu, go to Settings
Channel.
- Select the Advanced settings tab.
- Scroll to Automatic dubbing and choose your preferences:
- To enable or disable: Check or uncheck Allow automatic dubbing.
- To manage publication: Select Manually review dubs before publishing if you want to preview and approve audio tracks before they go live for viewers.
- Click Save.