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VLC tops 6 billion downloads, previews AI-generated subtitles (techcrunch.com)
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[–] [email protected] 87 points 1 day ago (24 children)

Et tu, Brute?

VLC automatic subtitles generation and translation based on local and open source AI models running on your machine working offline, and supporting numerous languages!

Oh, so it's basically like YouTube's auto-generatedd subtitles. Never mind.

[–] [email protected] 62 points 1 day ago (16 children)

Hopefully better than YouTube's, those are often pretty bad, especially for non-English videos.

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