YouTube’s auto-captioning serves 10 Northern languages, excluding billions of speakers

Evidence

CC capability only stretches to 10 languages, predominantly spoken in the Global North: English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. This sidelines audiences speaking some of the world’s most widely spoken languages, such as Arabic, Hindi, and Mandarin Chinese. — Crystal Abidin and Megan Lindsay Brown (eds.), Microcelebrity Around the Globe, 261

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to broader work on algorithmic bias and Global North platform defaults; parallels CVE/blog moderation material.
• QUESTION: Has YouTube expanded caption languages since 2017 to include Arabic, Hindi, or Mandarin?
• recurring: this claim recurs 2 times within its source