request to developers

[poibuklo]

Hello. I have a request to the developers. Please add the ability to create automatic subtitles for videos and translate them into different languages. I think it will be useful for people with hearing loss. Thank you

[fkuehne]

You mean VLC should listen to the audio and transcribe to text automatically?

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

That doesn't seem to be really practical during real time playback yet. Speech to text technology requires processing the audio many seconds ahead, which is a major problem to integrate it in a media player.

I'm pretty sure that YouTube does it offline on their cloud.

So this is going to require a lot of work, and as is unfortunately usual for accessibility-related feature requests, there does not seem to be much of any funding for it.