YouTube Shorts Adds TikTok-Style Artificial Voiceovers

YouTube has announced a slew of new features for YouTube Shorts, some of which are already available, like a new text-to-speech video narration that lets you add an artificial voiceover. On TikTok, it’s those sometimes-surprising robotic voices you often hear in videos that have something to promote.

In fact, the process of adding voices is very similar to TikTok’s: after creating text, tap on a new “add voice” icon that, in Shorts, is located in the upper left corner of the screen and choose the voice you want. YouTube only offers four voices to choose from at the moment, while TikTok offers… many more.

YouTube has announced that it’s also rolling out automatically generated captions that you can add to a video without having to switch to another app like CapCut. Like YouTube Shorts’ existing manual text overlay feature, you can change the style of the captions using a selection of fonts and colors.

The company has also added a new set of Minecraft effects — a game-themed green screen background and a mini-game called Minecraft Rush.