YouTube has unveiled several new AI-powered tools to make video creation more seamless including an image generator, a mobile editing app and automatic dubbing.
The platform announced the features during its Made on Youtube show, explaining it is aiming to open up new forms of creative expression, reduce time-consuming and expensive tasks, and allow creators to reach more viewers.
Among the new tools, the experimental Dream Screen will focus on adding AI-generated image or video backgrounds into YouTube Shorts, the company’s short-form video content service which has climbed to over 70 billion daily views since being launched in 2020. Testing of the feature will begin later this year.
“With Dream Screen, creators will be able to generate new, fantastic settings for their Shorts that are only limited by what they can imagine. We’ll start to introduce Dream Screen to select creators before we roll out more broadly next year,” said Youtube’s Vice President, Emerging Experiences and Community Products, Toni Reid.
Through YouTube Create, a new editing and production app, creators can fine tune videos from their phone while AI insights will offer them video ideas based on what a creator’s audience is already watching on YouTube.
Assistive Search in Creator Music is another new AI-assisted tool. This is being introduced so creators can find the perfect soundtrack for any video. In addition, the company has added an automatic dubbing tool called Aloud that will enable content to be created in more languages.
“In the future, we’ll expand to features that will allow anyone to instantly reimagine their videos by simply typing in an idea to edit their content or remix existing YouTube videos and turn them into something entirely new,” Reid added.
