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.

  • GreenKnight23@lemmy.worldEnglish
    171·
    10 hours ago

    crunchyroll is currently using AI subtitles. it’s obvious because when someone says “mothra. Funky…” it captions “mother fucker”

    • Alexstarfire@lemmy.worldEnglish
      14·
      10 hours ago

      That explains why their subtitles have seemed worse to me lately. Every now and then I see something obviously wrong and wonder how it got by anyone who looked at it. Now I know why. No one looked at it.

      • GreenKnight23@lemmy.worldEnglish
        151·
        10 hours ago

        my wife and I love laughing at the dumbass mistakes it makes.

        some characters name is Asura Halls?

        instead of “That’s Asura Halls!” you get “That asshole!”

        but if I was actually hearing impaired I’d be really pissed that I’m being treated as second class even though Sony still took my money like everyone else.