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YouTube Music Tests Real-Time Lyrics Translation for Select Premium Users

The experiment adds a one-tap Translate button that shows machine-translated lines beneath official lyrics for a small pool of Premium listeners.

Overview

  • Only a limited group of YouTube Music Premium subscribers currently sees the feature as part of an early test.
  • Tapping a new Translate button in the lyrics view displays translated lines directly under the original text.
  • The translation language follows the app or device language setting, and there is no manual language picker yet.
  • The system uses Google's machine translation, which can miss idioms or poetic phrasing even as it improves access to foreign-language songs.
  • Google has not shared a rollout timeline or supported languages, while Spotify already offers translations via Musixmatch and some users object to the Premium paywall.