TikTok-style artificial voiceovers added to YouTube Shorts

Youtube has announced A set of new features for YouTube ShortsSome of these are available now, such as a new text-to-speech video narration that lets you add an artificial voiceover. On TikTok, those are the sometimes shocking robot-like voices you often hear on certain videos to promote something.

The process for adding them is actually pretty similar to TikTok’s: after creating some text, you’ll tap a new “Add voice” icon that sits in the top-left corner of the screen in Shorts and choose the voice you want. YouTube only offers four voices to choose from at the moment, while TikTok has… a lot more.

YouTube says it is also introducing auto-generated captions that you can add to videos without switching to another app like CapCut. Like the existing YouTube Shorts manual text overlay feature, you can change the style of captions using a selection of fonts and colours.

The company has also added a new set minecraft Effects – A green screen game-themed background and a minigame called Minecraft Rush.