Vlc Player Demos Real-time Ai Subtitling For Videos

The celebrated open-source VLC video subordinate was demonstrated connected nan level of CES 2025 pinch automatic AI subtitling and translation, generated locally and offline successful existent time. Parent connection VideoLAN shared a video connected Tuesday successful which president Jean-Baptiste Kempf shows disconnected nan caller feature, which uses open-source AI models to make subtitles for videos successful respective languages. 

“At nan aforesaid clip we personification automatic translator moving to construe nan subtitles to your ain language,” Kempf says, pinch overmuch than 100 languages planned for support. “What’s important is that this is moving connected your instrumentality locally, offline, without immoderate unreality services. It runs consecutive incorrect nan executable.”

AI-powered subtitling has been nether betterment for immoderate clip successful nan style of a plug-in utilizing OpenAI’s reside nickname strategy Whisper, but this caller demo appears to beryllium built consecutive into nan VLC app and generates translated subtitles successful existent time. There’s nary relationship connected erstwhile nan characteristic will rotation out.

This week, VideoLAN too celebrated hitting 6 cardinal downloads, pinch Kempf boasting, “The number of progressive users of VLC is really growing, moreover successful this spot of streaming services.”

With CES 2025 still successful afloat swing, we’ll measurement VideoLAN down connected nan show level to spot nan AI subtitling successful action for ourselves.