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VLC player demos real-time AI subtitling for videos (www.theverge.com)
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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 16 points 6 months 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.

[-] Scrollone@feddit.it 6 points 6 months ago

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

[-] TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

is your goal to rely on it, or to have it as a backup?
For my purpose of having backup nearly anything will be better than nothing.

[-] Nalivai@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

When you do live streaming there is no time for backup, it either works or not. Better than nothing, that's for sure, but also maybe marginally better than whatever we had 10 years ago

[-] Petter1@lemm.ee 3 points 6 months ago

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

Like how should you know?!

[-] Nalivai@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months 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.

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