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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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[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

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"

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 weeks ago

Or they can get OK ones with this tool, and fix the errors. Might save a lot of time

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 weeks ago

Regular old live broadcast closed captioning is pretty much 'good enough' and that is the standard I'm comparing to.

Actual subtitles created ahead of time should be perfect because they have the time to double check.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago

I have a feeling that if you care enough about subtitles you're going to look for good ones, instead of using "ok" ai subs.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Derp. You're right, I've added an edit to my comment.