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.
I hope Mozilla can benefit of a good local translation engine that could come out of it as well.
They technically already do with Project Bergamot.
I know they do, but it’s lacking so many languages.
And it takes forever. I’m using the TWP plugin for Firefox (which uses external resources, configurable to google, bing and yandex translate respectively), and it’s near instantaneous. The local one from Mozilla often takes 30 seconds, and sometimes hangs until I refresh the page.