VLC player demos real-time AI subtitling for videos

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

“At the aforesaid clip we person automatic translator moving to construe the subtitles to your ain language,” Kempf says, pinch much 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 straight wrong the executable.”

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

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

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