CES 2025 | VLC media player previews AI-generated offline subtitles
VideoLAN, the parent company of open-source media player VLC, recently celebrated hitting 6 billion downloads and over 500 million monthly active users. To mark this feat, the organization has announced a new feature of its video player at CES 2025: AI-powered automatic subtitles.
President of VideoLAN, Jean Baptiste-Kempf, showed a demo of the feature in a video shared on X. The AI subtitles are generated locally and completely offline, with automatic translations occuring in real-time into over 100 possible languages. This ambitious feature seems to involve Whisper, an open-source neural net developed by OpenAI for speech recognition. Only the demo is available for now, although implementation is already underway.
At the time of this writing, there has been no mention of a deadline for the public rollout of AI subtitles and the accompanying translations on the media player. Download the latest version of VLC here.
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VideoLAN via X, LinkedIn
