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.

  • LandedGentryEnglish
    5·
    8 hours ago

    Honestly though? If your audio is even half decent you’ll get like 95% accuracy. Considering a lot of media just wouldn’t have anything, that is a pretty fair trade off to me

    • TheMachineStops@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      31·
      4 hours ago

      From experience AI translation is still garbage, specially for languages like Chinese, Japanese, and Korean , but if it only subtitles in the actual language such creating English subtitles for English then it is probably fine.

      • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        50 minutes ago

        That’s probably more due to lack of training than anything else. Existing models are mostly made by American companies and trained on English-language material. Naturally, the further you get from the model, the worse the result.