The video player is testing a new AI tool to create subtitles in over 100 languages.

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.

  • @[email protected]English
    -17•9 hours ago

    No such comment yet? I’ll be the first then.

    Oh no, AI bad, next thing they add is cryptocurrency mining!

    • katy ✨English
      16•8 hours ago

      ai for accessibility is nowhere near the same thing as crypto mining