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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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[–] lukewarm_ozone@lemmy.today 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Really? This is the opposite of my experience with (distil-)whisper - I use it to generate subtitles for stuff like podcasts and was stunned at first by how high-quality the results are. I typically use distil-whisper/distil-large-v3, locally. Was it among the models you tried?

[–] Nalivai@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago

I unfortunately don't know the specific names of the models, I will comment additionally if I will not forget to ask people who spun up the models themselves.
The difference might be that live vs recorded stuff, I don't know.