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

They technically already do with Project Bergamot.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I know they do, but it's lacking so many languages.

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

And it takes forever. I'm using the TWP plugin for Firefox (which uses external resources, configurable to google, bing and yandex translate respectively), and it's near instantaneous. The local one from Mozilla often takes 30 seconds, and sometimes hangs until I refresh the page.

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

Weird, I can translate with FF even on my phone and it's not a strong one.