YouTube has introduced a set of latest options for YouTube Shorts, a few of which can be found now, like a brand new text-to-speech video narration that allows you to add a synthetic voiceover. On TikTok, these are the typically startlingly robotic voices that you simply hear loads on movies with one thing to advertise.
The method for including them is loads like TikTok’s, actually: after you create some textual content, you’ll faucet a brand new “add voice” icon that, in Shorts, sits within the upper-left nook of the display and decide the voice you need. YouTube solely provides 4 voices to select from in the mean time, whereas TikTok has… fairly just a few extra.
YouTube says it’s additionally rolling out auto-generated captions you may add to a video with out switching to a different app like CapCut. Like the prevailing YouTube Shorts handbook textual content overlay characteristic, you may change the captions’ type utilizing a collection of fonts and colours.
The corporate has additionally added a brand new set of Minecraft results — a inexperienced display game-themed background and a minigame known as Minecraft Rush.