this post was submitted on 09 Jan 2025
488 points (99.2% liked)

Opensource

2621 readers
60 users here now

A community for discussion about open source software! Ask questions, share knowledge, share news, or post interesting stuff related to it!

CreditsIcon base by Lorc under CC BY 3.0 with modifications to add a gradient

⠀

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
pylapp@programming.dev
488
VLC tops 6 billion downloads, previews AI-generated subtitles (techcrunch.com)
submitted 3 months ago by neme@lemm.ee to c/opensource@programming.dev
130 comments fedilink hide all child comments
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] TheImpressiveX@lemm.ee 94 points 3 months ago (25 children)

Et tu, Brute?

VLC automatic subtitles generation and translation based on local and open source AI models running on your machine working offline, and supporting numerous languages!

Oh, so it's basically like YouTube's auto-generatedd subtitles. Never mind.

[–] neme@lemm.ee 68 points 3 months ago (17 children)

Hopefully better than YouTube's, those are often pretty bad, especially for non-English videos.

load more comments (15 replies)
load more comments (22 replies)