The opensource video player VLC presents a more than welcome new accessibility option at CES 2025.
VLC is a French media player popular around the world. This is evidenced by the six billion downloads celebrated by the VideoLAN association present at CES 2025. For the occasion, the president of the association Jean-Baptiste Kempf unveils a new option for rendering content ever more accessible.
Breaking the language barrier
The strength of VLC, unlike other media players, is in its ability to read everything, for free. With its many options, the application has made a name for itself since its creation in 2001 and benefited in 2021 from an overhaul of its interface. Present at CES 2025, the teams behind VLC unveiled a new option of subtitles and automatic translations in real time for all videos played by the player.
To work, this feature uses artificial intelligence while remaining respectful of user data. Indeed, this AI will be completely local and will not need a cloud service or an internet connection. True to its values, VideoLAN indicated on LinkedIn that all models used are open source.
Although VideoLAN did not specify when this option will be available, Jean-Baptiste Kempf, the president of VideoLAN took advantage of the event to emphasize that “the number of active VLC users is actually growing, even in the age of streaming services.”
