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
    11•7 hours ago

    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.

    • @[email protected]English
      3•4 hours ago

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

      • @[email protected]English
        4•3 hours ago

        This is already trivial. Bazarr has been doing it for all my subtitles for almost a decade.

    • @[email protected]English
      3•4 hours ago

      You were not able to test it yet calling it nowhere near good 🤦🏻

      Like how should you know?!

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

        Relax, they didn’t write a new way of doing magic, they integrated a solution from the market.
        I don’t know what the new BMW car they introduce this year is capable of, but I know for a fact it can’t fly.