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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] 282 points 1 week ago (16 children)

Finally, some good fucking AI

[–] [email protected] 169 points 1 week ago (13 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 67 points 1 week ago (12 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.

[–] vvv 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'd like to see this fix the most annoying part about subtitles, timing. find transcript/any subs on the Internet and have the AI align it with the audio properly.

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

YES! I can't stand when subtitles are misaligned to the video. If this AI tool could help with that, it would be super useful.

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