YouTube Shorts adds TikTok-style artificial voiceovers

YouTube Shorts adds TikTok-style artificial voiceovers
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YouTube has announced a set of new features for YouTube Shorts, some of which are available now, like a new text-to-speech video narration that lets you add an artificial voiceover. On TikTok, those are the sometimes startlingly robotic voices that you hear a lot on videos with something to promote.

The process for adding them is a lot like TikTok’s, in fact: after you create some text, you’ll tap a new “add voice” icon that, in Shorts, sits in the upper-left corner of the screen and pick the voice you want. YouTube only offers four voices to choose from at the moment, whereas TikTok has… quite a few more.

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