cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/37011397
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.
It is not the lack of training material that is the issue, it doesn’t understand context and cultural references. Someone commented here that crunchyroll AI subtitles translated Asura Hall a name to asshole.