YouTube has announced several new features for its Shorts videos. These are aimed at simplifying the creation of short videos and providing new opportunities for creative people. This makes it easier for content creators to convert their longer videos into short videos, and a new text-to-speech feature allows adding artificial language as a voiceover to short videos.
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These features make YouTube Shorts similar to the short video market leader, TikTok. On TikTok you often hear surprisingly robotic-sounding voiceovers in videos that are promoting something. The process of adding a voiceover to a video is also exactly the same as TikTok.
For Shorts, YouTube offers Create as an app with AI tools for video production. After the creative enters the text for the short video, an artificially generated voiceover is added using the “Add Voice” button in the top left corner of the screen. There are currently four different voices to choose from. However, TikTok offers more voices for its voiceover function.
New video shortening, subtitles and Minecraft effects too
In addition describes youtube The function of creating shorts from long videos. A new feature called “Auto Layout” helps automatically track the subject or main object of the video when converting it to a portrait video. This keeps it in focus when the video is zoomed and panned during conversion.
YouTube Shorts will soon roll out automatically generated subtitles in different designs, eliminating the need for an external app for this feature. Different fonts and colors can be chosen. The video service has also introduced new Minecraft effects for YouTube Shorts, such as backgrounds that match the game and a mini-game called “Minecraft Rush”. In this game, you have to remove blocks as quickly as possible. This can be recorded so you can compete with others for the best time.
Minecraft Rush in YouTube Shorts
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With the new features, YouTube Shorts wants to improve its position in the competition with TikTok. YouTube is taking over some functions from TikTok that are interesting from Google’s point of view, while in order to attack YouTube’s core business, TikTok is constantly increasing the length of videos, which were originally designed for 30 to 60 seconds. TikTok has now increased the length of videos to ten minutes.
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