Matching a script with a transcript 2025-01-09-01

• script
• record on my phone
• WhisperX transcript (with false starts and recognition errors)

My current implementation is totally unoptimized (n²) but it's fine for short videos.

Process:

• While there are transcript words to process
  • Find the script line that has the minimum distance to the words left in the transcript. restart after oopses
• Script
• Transcript: min. distance between script phrase & transcript
• Restarting after oops: find script phrase with minimum distance
• Ex. script phrase: The Emacs text editor
• Transcript: The Emax text editor is a...
• Bar graph of distance decreasing, and then increasing again
• Minimum distance
• Oops?
  • N: Use transcript words, or diff > threshold?
    • Y: Add script words as comment
    • N: Correct minor errors
  • Y: Mark caption for skipping and look for the previous script line with minimum distance.

Result:

• Untimed captions with comments
• Aeneas
• Timed captions for editing

This means I can edit a nicely-split, mostly-corrected file.