The video player is testing a new AI tool to create subtitles in over 100 languages.

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.

  • @[email protected]English
    2•15 hours ago

    I imagine it would be not-exactly-simple-but-not- complicated to add a “threshold” feature. If Ai is less than X% certain, it can request human clarification.

    Edit: Derp. I forgot about the “real time” part. Still, as others have said, even a single botched word would still work well enough with context.

    • snooggumsEnglish
      1•16 hours ago

      That defeats the purpose of doing it in real time as it would introduce a delay.