AI Subtitles Are Coming to VLC— Get Ready!
AI Subtitles Are Coming to VLC— Get Ready!
VLC is adding the ability to generate subtitles with the help of AI.
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If youtube transcriptions is anything to go by this won't be great. But I'm optimistic
Youtube transcriptions are suprisingly abysmal considering what technology google already has at hand.
I find them pretty good for English spoken by native speakers. For anything else it's horrible.
I actually disagree.
I'm consistently impressed whenever I have auto-subtitles turned on on Youtube.
I'm not impressed by the subtitles themselves (they're just ok) but rather by how accessible it is. Like it being an option rather than it being a "tool for creators" or limited to premium or something
Or maybe youtube has added so much dogshit features recently (like ai overviews, automatically adding info cards for anyone mentioned, and highlighting seemingly random words in comments to search it outside of context) that it makes me appreciate these things more lol
They're helpful to my deaf ears, even when they're wrong (50% of the words) they do give me a solid idea of what is being said together with what the audio sounds like.
With it, I get almost everything correct. Without it, I understand near to nothing.
This only goes for English spoken by Americans and sometimes London Britons, sadly, nothing else get detected nearly as good enough, so I can't enjoy YouTube in my native language (Dutch), but being able to consume English YouTube already helps a lot!
That is very true. It's hard to find local subtitles to a lot of stuff. And the whole deaf angle :)
I've been messing with more recent open-source AI Subtitling models via Subtitle Editor which has a nice GUI for it. Quality is much better these days, at least for English. It still makes mistakes, but the mistakes are on the level of "I misheard what they said and had little context for the conversation" or "the speaker has an accent which makes it hard to understand what they're saying" mistakes, which is way better than most YouTube Auto Transriptions I've seen.