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.
This sounds like a great thing for deaf people and just in general, but I don’t think AI will ever replace anime fansub makers who have no problem throwing a wall of text on screen for a split second just to explain an obscure untranslatable pun.
It’s unlikely to even replace good subtitles, fan or not. It’s just a nice thing to have for a lot of content though.
They are like the * in any Terry Pratchett (GNU) novel, sometimes a funny joke can have a little more spice added to make it even funnier
Bless those subbers. I love those walls of text.
Translator’s note: keikaku means plan