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.

    • TheMachineStops@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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      16 hours ago

      You said that with training data it will be able to understand. I mean that even with training data it will take years and it also has other problems like hallucinations. I admit, I didn’t word it correctly.

      • Petter1@lemm.eeEnglish
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        16 hours ago

        *would, not will.

        It is not know if the needed training data will ever even exist. But if it did, training an AI with that data would result in great, cultural subtitle generation.

          • Petter1@lemm.eeEnglish
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            14 hours ago

            Will is future tense in a way that it is definitely gonna happen. Would just means there is the possibility.

            And yes, I am sure, that one could brute force a solution with having enough computing power and learning data. If it would make sense (ethical and sustainably wise) is a whole other question.

            I am sure it can, because LLM are statistically systems as humans are as well for a great factor (just not as strict as a machine). If you have enough data with action and response to such cultural traditions, there is nothing that would suggest that a LLM would fail to replicate that.