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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/37011397

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The popular open-source VLC video player was demonstrated on the floor of CES 2025 with automatic AI subtitling and translation, generated locally and offline in real time. Parent organization VideoLAN shared a video on Tuesday in which president Jean-Baptiste Kempf shows off the new feature, which uses open-source AI models to generate subtitles for videos in several languages. 

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[–] Nalivai@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The technology is nowhere near being good though. On synthetic tests, on the data it was trained and tweeked on, maybe, I don't know.
I corun an event when we invite speakers from all over the world, and we tried every way to generate subtitles, all of them run on the level of YouTube autogenerated ones. It's better than nothing, but you can't rely on it really.

[–] Scrollone@feddit.it 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

No, but I think it would be super helpful to synchronize subtitles that are not aligned to the video.

[–] Telodzrum@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

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[–] asbestos@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Finally, some good fucking AI

[–] shyguyblue@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I was just thinking, this is exactly what AI should be used for. Pattern recognition, full stop.

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yup, and if it isn't perfect that is ok as long as it is close enough.

Like getting name spellings wrong or mixing homophones is fine because it isn't trying to be factually accurate.

[–] tja@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

Problem ist that now people will say that they don't get to create accurate subtitles because VLC is doing the job for them.

Accessibility might suffer from that, because all subtitles are now just "good enough"