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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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[–] Mr_Blott@feddit.uk 1 points 2 weeks ago

I will be impressed only when it can get through a single episode of Still Game without making a dozen mistakes

[–] EVERGREEN@lemmy.one 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Wonderful! Now we need descriptive audio for the visually impaired!

[–] WalnutLum@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago

This is already implemented on windows

Tools > Preferences > Show settings=All > Video \ Subtitles/OSD: Text rendering module [Speech synthesis for Windows]

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