YouTube Shorts, the Google-owned video platform’s TikTok rival, was launched in September 2020 and is now out there in over 100 international locations. YouTube Shorts permits creators to make video clips as much as 60 seconds lengthy and share on the platform. At launch, it supplied primary options reminiscent of including texts to particular components of the clip, automated captions, filters, and color correction. The firm is now reportedly growing a devoted voiceover characteristic for Shorts. As of now, the YouTube app on Android lets creators add audio from YouTube’s library to Shorts.

The leak on Shorts voiceover characteristic comes from XDA Developers, who reportedly noticed new strings of code in the course of the teardown of the Android model of YouTube. The alleged code was discovered within the 17.04.32_beta model. These strings of code reportedly recommend that the YouTube app will get a devoted button for the voiceover characteristic. As talked about earlier, YouTube creators can solely use the audio from YouTube’s library whereas making Shorts. Currently, they’ve to make use of third-party video editors so as to add customized audio clips to their Shorts. The voiceover characteristic just isn’t but stay on the newest beta model of the YouTube app for Android. Furthermore, YouTube is but to share any official info relating to the rollout of the voiceover characteristic. So, the reported particulars needs to be thought of with a pinch of salt.

YouTube seems to be trying to make an area for itself within the quick clips development popularised by TikTok. Other social media platforms have provide you with related options like Meta-owned Instagram Reels and Snapchat’s Spotlight characteristic. These platforms are attracting younger creators to their platform, who’re growing an enormous fan following by making quick comedy skits and viral dance movies. Last yr, in May, YouTube introduced a $100-million (roughly Rs. 735 crore) fund for creators who make fashionable clips on Shorts. The fund is claimed to pay creators all through 2022. TikTok has additionally launched an analogous fund with a funding of over $1 billion (roughly Rs. 7,350 crore) within the United States over three years.