Weekend, so catching up on CES 2025 news.
If you are at CES, be sure to go visit the VideoLAN booth in Eureka Park to witness what I think is likely the most important CES 2025 AI news:
[Wayback/Archive] VideoLAN on X: “VLC automatic subtitles generation and translation based on local and open source AI models running on your machine working offline, and supporting numerous languages! Demo can be found on our #CES2025 booth in Eureka Park.”
In my opinion, though a remarkable statistic, their 6-billion downloads gimmick is just a teaser for the way more important news what this AI LLM is:
- free / open-source
- off-line
- subtitles plus translations
- 100 languages
Whisper already ran circles around the YouTube automatic subtitle generator, and their automatic translations are far below par (see video below), so having new contender is great!
VideoLAN tremendously raises the bar for all commercial vendors, and at the same time makes:
The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 