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VLC player demos real-time AI subtitling for videos
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this post was submitted on 12 Jan 2025
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The technology is nowhere near being good though. On synthetic tests, on the data it was trained and tweeked on, maybe, I don't know.
I corun an event when we invite speakers from all over the world, and we tried every way to generate subtitles, all of them run on the level of YouTube autogenerated ones. It's better than nothing, but you can't rely on it really.
No, but I think it would be super helpful to synchronize subtitles that are not aligned to the video.
This is already trivial. Bazarr has been doing it for all my subtitles for almost a decade.
is your goal to rely on it, or to have it as a backup?
For my purpose of having backup nearly anything will be better than nothing.
Really? This is the opposite of my experience with (distil-)whisper - I use it to generate subtitles for stuff like podcasts and was stunned at first by how high-quality the results are. I typically use distil-whisper/distil-large-v3, locally. Was it among the models you tried?
I unfortunately don't know the specific names of the models, I will comment additionally if I will not forget to ask people who spun up the models themselves.
The difference might be that live vs recorded stuff, I don't know.
You were not able to test it yet calling it nowhere near good 🤦🏻
Like how should you know?!
Relax, they didn't write a new way of doing magic, they integrated a solution from the market.
I don't know what the new BMW car they introduce this year is capable of, but I know for a fact it can't fly.