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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] 70 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Now I want some AR glasses that display subtitles above someone's head when they talk à la Cyberpunk that also auto-translates. Of course, it has to be done entirely locally.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 days ago (4 children)

I guess we have most of the ingredients to make this happen. Software-wise we're there, hardware wise I'm still waiting for AR glasses I can replace my normal glasses with (that I wear 24/7 except for sleep). I'd accept having to carry a spare in a charging case so I swap them out once a day or something but other than that I want them to be close enough in terms of weight and comfort to my regular glasses and just give me AR like overlaid GPS, notifications, etc, and indeed instant translation with subtitles would be a function that I could see having a massive impact on civilization tbh.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

I believe you can put prescription lenses in most AR glasses out there, but I suppose the battery is a concern..

I'm in the same boat, I gotta wear my glasses 24/7.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

It'd be incredible for deaf people being able to read captions for spoken conversations and to have the other person's glasses translate from ASL to English.

Honestly I'd be a bit shocked if the AI ASL -> English doesn't exist already, there's so much training data available, the Deaf community loves video for obvious reasons.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

I think we're closer with hardware than software. the xreal/rokid category of hmds are comfortable enough to wear all day, and I don't mind a cable running from behind my ear under a clothes layer to a phone or mini PC in my pocket. Unfortunately you still need to byo cameras to get the overlays appearing in the correct points in space, but cameras are cheap, I suspect these glasses will grow some cameras in the next couple of iterations.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

soon

Breaking news: "WW3 starts over an insult due to a mistranslated phrase at the G7 summit. We will be nuked in 37 seconds. Fuck like rabbits, it's all we can do. Now over to Robert with traffic."

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

There are plenty mistranslations in politics done by humans already.