skip=translated_subs hides subs that are auto-translated from normal subtitles. These are just auto-generated subs of different languages. Use --list-subs to see all the available subs

skip=translated_subs hides subs that are auto-translated from normal subtitles. These are just auto-generated subs of different languages.

It feels somewhat counterintuitive to me because initially I thought skip=translated_subs would skip everything in Auto-translate:

I wonder if there is a way to achieve that.

There is always only one "original" auto-subs. This is labeled as (Original) (lang ends with -orig) in --list-subs

Thank you for your explanation. My use case is to download all non auto-subs + English (auto-generated). Now I am able to do that with:

yt-dlp --write-subs --sub-langs all "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOXCLR3Wric"
yt-dlp --write-auto-subs --sub-langs en-orig "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOXCLR3Wric"

skip=translated_subs hides subs that are auto-translated from normal subtitles. These are just auto-generated subs of different languages. Use --list-subs to see all the available subs

But the contents of "auto-generated" subs are still the same as the content of "skiped translated_subs".

Could yt-dlp add an option to avoid all machine-translated subs?

Don't use --write-auto-subs? All auto-subs are machine generated

The "auto-generated" speech-to-text sub/caption (e.g. English sub of English video) is a special case. Because non-native speakers or accent problems in some videos, It makes it easier for many audiences to watch.
Therefore the "auto-generated speech-to-text sub/caption" could be an exception from "-auto-subs".

The both "en-orig" and "en".
Because the former contains additional: "sound effects, relevant musical cues, and other relevant audio information", and any missing sentence in the latter.

I usually only saw one "auto-generated" sub, which is usually english on youtube web, so what is the "Spanish Speech to text" while there already a english Speech to text sub?

My use case is to download all non auto-subs + English (auto-generated).

@1sixth : Your use case is handled by this feature request: #2262

[info] Available automatic captions for xxx:
Language        Name                                               
en-orig         English                                            Speech to text, in spoken language
es              Spanish                                            Speech to text
es-en           Spanish from English                               Auto-translated from en subs

[info] Available subtitles for xxx:
Language Name                    
en       English                 Uploaded by creator

@pukkandan : Did you manually add the annotations (3rd column) or can yt-dlp output it?
--print subtitles_table and --print automatic_captions_table didn't include this column in my tests.

I wrote it to explain

Excuse me, but I really want to know that if the problem has been solved?
For me I want to download all normal subs and all (actually there is only one for each video) auto-sub from speech to text which labeled "orig" no matter which language it is. That means I don't need any auto-trans subs, either from normal subs or auto-gen subs.
I've read #2262 #4090 as well, if I didn't miss something, for now I still have to use two lines to do that as 1sixth said above:

yt-dlp --write-subs --sub-langs all https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOXCLR3Wric
yt-dlp --write-auto-subs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOXCLR3Wric

Issues are closed when solved. Which means, #2262 is not yet implemented and running 2 commands is your best workaround for now

Issues are closed when solved. Which means, #2262 is not yet implemented and running 2 commands is your best workaround for now

Thank you for your reply. I'm sorry, but I think there's another problem. The auto-sub's default language is english, which means if I don't choose --sub-langs es-orig, then it will download en-sub (trans from es-orig), even if the orig-auto-sub is another language like spanish. For example:

yt-dlp https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8A4FW0NV95M --write-auto-subs

When using --list-subs, it shows:

es-orig  Spanish (Original)

The orig-auto-sub is spanish, but after downloading there's only an en.vtt.

So the command should be modified as: (using regex)

yt-dlp https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8A4FW0NV95M --write-auto-subs --sub-langs .+-orig

Though it can solve the problem, it's still strange, cause for each video there's only one orig-auto-sub, which may not be en. Downloading the original language is more reasonable.