VLC media player, the popular open source software developed by nonprofit VideoLAN, has topped 6 billion downloads worldwide and teased an AI-powered VLC media player, the open-source video software developed by nonprofit VideoLan, has topped 6 billion downloads.
I know AI has some PR issues at the moment but I can’t see how this could possibly be interpreted as a net negative here.
In most cases, people will go for (manually) written subtitles rather than autogenerated ones, so the use case here would most often be in cases where there isn’t a better, human-created subbing available.
I just can’t see AI / autogenerated subtitles of any kind taking jobs from humans because they will always be worse/less accurate in some way.
We started doing subtitling near the end of my time as an editor and I had to create the initial English ones (god forbid we give the translation company another couple hundred bucks to do it) and yeah…the timestamps are the hardest part.
I can type at 120 wpm but that’s not very helpful when you can only write a sentence at a time
I know AI has some PR issues at the moment but I can’t see how this could possibly be interpreted as a net negative here.
In most cases, people will go for (manually) written subtitles rather than autogenerated ones, so the use case here would most often be in cases where there isn’t a better, human-created subbing available.
I just can’t see AI / autogenerated subtitles of any kind taking jobs from humans because they will always be worse/less accurate in some way.
Autogenerated subtitles are pretty awesome for subtitle editors I’d imagine.
even if they get the words wrong, but the timestamps right, it’d still save a lot of time
We started doing subtitling near the end of my time as an editor and I had to create the initial English ones (god forbid we give the translation company another couple hundred bucks to do it) and yeah…the timestamps are the hardest part.
I can type at 120 wpm but that’s not very helpful when you can only write a sentence at a time
Yeah this is exactly what we should want from AI. Filling in an immediate need, but also recognizing it won’t be as good as a pro translation.
Not judging this as bad or good, but for sure if it’s offline generated it will bloat the size of the program.