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VLC AI-Generated Subtitles: VLC Media Player, the popular open-source media player from VideoLAN, is about to introduce a feature that will change the way you interact with the media player with the help of Artificial Intelligence. Revealed at CES 2025, this new tool will allow VLC to generate subtitles automatically and offer real-time translations in multiple languages. The best part? It works offline, using open-source, local AI models, so you won’t need to rely on cloud services.

AI-generated subtitles are the new up-and-coming trend in the tech industry lets take for instance the Vision AI tech unveiled by Samsung, which can create subtitles on the fly, while Google has rolled out its "Expressive Captions" feature for Android devices running version 14 and above in the U.S.

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Jean-Baptiste Kempf, president of VideoLAN, gave a sneak peek of the new feature on X (formerly Twitter), explaining that the subtitles are powered by open-source AI models, making the entire process local and completely offline. The AI models being used are from public sources, such as Meta’s Llama 3.1, Mixtral 8x22B, and Alibaba’s DeepSeek, which are available without any licensing fees.

What’s even better is that the team behind VLC is making sure the new feature doesn’t require expensive cloud operations. They’ve made it a priority to keep things local so users won’t face performance hiccups.

During the demo at CES, VideoLAN showed off the AI-generated subtitles in a variety of languages, including English, French, Hebrew, German, and Japanese. VideoLAN is aiming towards supporting over 100 languages in the time to come, which would make VLC even more approachable for the global audience.

Although an official date of release is yet to be confirmed, these upgrades in AI-powered subtitles are definitely something worth looking forward to.

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