{"id":812430,"date":"2024-12-16T22:25:14","date_gmt":"2024-12-17T04:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/16\/youtube-is-testing-creator-voice-comment-replies-heres-how-it-works\/"},"modified":"2024-12-16T22:25:14","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T04:25:14","slug":"youtube-is-testing-creator-voice-comment-replies-heres-how-it-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/16\/youtube-is-testing-creator-voice-comment-replies-heres-how-it-works\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTube Is Testing Creator Voice Comment Replies \u2014 Here\u2019s How It Works"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"cb-outer-container\" role=\"main\">\n<article id=\"post-310305\" role=\"article\">\n<section itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<div id=\"attachment_310321\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-310321\" src=\"https:\/\/www.digitalmusicnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/youtube-comments-voice-replies-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"YouTube voice comments reply\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\"  ><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-310321\">Photo Credit: YouTube<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2>YouTube says it is testing a new feature that will allow video creators to respond to comments with their own voice. Here\u2019s how it works.<\/h2>\n<p>For starters, the <a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/youtube\/thread\/18138167?hl=en&#038;msgid=313609128\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" rel=\"nofollow external noopener noreferrer\">new feature<\/a> is only available to creators in the test group\u2014which is intentionally small while YouTube works on the feature. Only U.S. creators are eligible, with YouTube stating it hopes the voice reply feature will \u201cenable more meaningful relationships between <a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitalmusicnews.com\/2024\/12\/13\/youtube-easily-trumping-tiktok-among-teens\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" rel=\"follow\">creators and their audiences<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<h4>How to Enable Voice Replies for Creators on YouTube<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Click the sound wave icon when responding to a comment.<\/li>\n<li>Record the voice reply. (Requires YouTube iOS app)<\/li>\n<li>Post it as a comment.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>YouTube says while the feature is considered an experiment, creators can only leave voice replies on their own videos via the YouTube iOS app. Once the comment is posted, anyone who sees the comment can interact with it normally just like text comments. Where users can listen to these voice replies seems to be limited as well; only the YouTube mobile app (iOS | Android) seems to be able to listen to these new voice comments.<\/p>\n<p>The idea is to help creators foster a close knit community among those who frequently comment on their YouTube videos. But it also may be a feature that is intended to help YouTube\u2019s feel stay human\u2014after all hearing someone\u2019s voice reply to your comment is much more personable than reading the same reply as text.<\/p>\n<h4>There\u2019s also a transcript button that appears on voice comments, which may be helping YouTube\u2019s speech-to-text AI processing feature gather more examples of everyday speech, complete with accents and dialects.<\/h4>\n<p>One of the challenges of creating an AI capable of turning speech to text is gathering enough voice samples of various dialects to accurately translate what\u2019s being said to text. This feature would supply YouTube with plenty of training data from creators to help the company <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/youtubedrama\/comments\/1h8tjt7\/youtube_is_now_replacing_creators_original_voice\/\" rel=\"nofollow external noopener noreferrer\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">hone its speech-to-text AI<\/a> that currently exists for translating videos into other languages.<\/p>\n<\/section><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitalmusicnews.com\/2024\/12\/16\/youtube-testing-creator-voice-comment-replies\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo Credit: YouTube YouTube says it is testing a new feature that will allow video creators to respond to comments with their own voice. Here\u2019s how it works. For starters, the new feature is only available to creators in the test group\u2014which is intentionally small while YouTube works on the feature. 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