Workaudiobook plaintext to subtitles

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Workaudiobook plaintext to subtitles

Postby bombobuffoon » Sat Nov 30, 2024 1:46 pm

Is it possible using Workaudiobook, to use a plaintext line (or several) to correspond an audio segment? Assuming I have 50 lines of text and 50 audio segments with one audio file I want to be able to use each line as a subtitle.

I don't want to manually create these subtitles as I have thousands more.

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Re: Workaudiobook plaintext to subtitles

Postby tritiumoxide » Sun Dec 01, 2024 11:45 pm

While I haven't used that particular tool, I looked at the docs just now and it seems like, with a little text manipulation and a forced alignment tool, you could get compatible subtitles (SRT) to feed into it. I have had great success with https://www.readbeyond.it/aeneas/ as a forced aligner. It's a Python package that uses espeak to quite quickly and accurately align lines of text to audio. This may or may not be a usable solution for you, depending on your comfort working with python or the command line, but I thought I would at least mention that such tools exist, and that they can be quite efficient to use once you've gotten them set up.
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Re: Workaudiobook plaintext to subtitles

Postby bombobuffoon » Tue Dec 03, 2024 5:42 pm

tritiumoxide wrote:While I haven't used that particular tool, I looked at the docs just now and it seems like, with a little text manipulation and a forced alignment tool, you could get compatible subtitles (SRT) to feed into it. I have had great success with https://www.readbeyond.it/aeneas/ as a forced aligner. It's a Python package that uses espeak to quite quickly and accurately align lines of text to audio. This may or may not be a usable solution for you, depending on your comfort working with python or the command line, but I thought I would at least mention that such tools exist, and that they can be quite efficient to use once you've gotten them set up.


Thanks. Thats too complicated for me, but I see theres some other programs that might do something similar, maybe.
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