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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. 

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[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 49 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (13 children)

As vlc is open source, can we expect this technology to also be available for, say, jellyfin, so that I can for once and for all have subtitles.done right?

Edit: I think it's great that vlc has this, but this sounds like something many other apps could benefit from

[–] QuadratureSurfer@lemmy.world 22 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)
[–] lukewarm_ozone@lemmy.today 3 points 2 weeks ago

Note that openai's original whisper models are pretty slow; in my experience the distil-whisper project (via a tool like whisperx) is more than 10x faster.

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