# YouTube Expands Textual content-to-Speech for Shorts, Publicizes New Teen Security Initiative

YouTube has introduced an expanded launch of its text-for-speech function for Shorts, whereas it’s additionally launching a brand new collection to assist promote safer web use amongst teenagers for Safer Web Day as a part of its newest function replace.

First off, YouTube’s bringing text-to-speech to extra Shorts creators, with YouTube’s model of the favored audio overdub choice now obtainable on iOS, along with Android.

YouTube launched text-for-speech on Android final July, offering one other choice to current key particulars in your clips. And now, extra Shorts creators will be capable of embrace an automatic voiceover on their movies. 

As per YouTube:

“With text-to-speech, creators can add textual content, have it narrated, or spoken out loud within the brief, and select the beginning and endpoint of the visible textual content. There are 4 voices creators can select from when choosing a narration.”

You’ve little question heard many robot-voiced clips, with a well-recognized stiff voice that can (typically awkwardly) learn out no matter textual content you embrace. And now, you should utilize the identical in Shorts on each Android and iOS.

YouTube affords 4 voice choices for its automated voiceovers at this stage.

YouTube’s additionally introduced a brand new partnership with the JED Basis (JED), which is a nonprofit group that goals to supply life-skills to assist teenagers take care of stress and nervousness.

“Along with JED and the staff at Room 1041, we’ve developed a collection of participating and evidence-based psychological well being movies for teenagers that includes high YouTube creators, with the objective of equipping them with the data and instruments to know their psychological well being, deal with challenges, and search assist when wanted.”

As a part of Safer Web Day, YouTube’s launching the primary two movies within the new collection on the JED Basis’s YouTube channel.

Lastly, YouTube’s additionally updating its profile playing cards on Studio cell, in an effort to “give them the identical feel and appear as different updates throughout the app.”

As you’ll be able to see on this instance, YouTube’s up to date profile playing cards provides you with a fast overview of that person by way of a pop-up throughout the Studio show. YouTube says that the performance of the playing cards stays the identical, however the format will higher align with the broader Studio presentation.

You’ll be able to study extra about YouTube’s newest function updates right here, and its partnership with the JED Basis right here.