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You are welcome. Using a forced aligner usually improves the results a lot when compared to using an automatic speech recognition system --- because adapting the language model to …

Another possibility is to just run an automatic speech recognition system (e.g. Sphinx or PocketSphinx can read from the mic input), and align its output with the ground truth text…

For sure aeneas is not suitable, since it requires all the text and all the audio in advance. But ASR-based tools in theory would allow such an operation mode, but I have not seen …

To elaborate a bit further, as indeed the closed captioning applications are very important, from hearing-impaired people to the dyslexic, to second language learners. Let's think …

I have used aeneas myself to do it, with mixed results. You will probably need to increase the DTW margin. Also note that you will need a lot of RAM --- say 16 GB if you plan to wo…

I would like to note once again that aeneas is not based on automatic speech recognition techniques, but on MFCC + DTW, which is an even older approach, with pro's and con's. Inter…

Thank you. Indeed, while aeneas was created for ebook-audiobook synchronization, several of its current users are producing closed captions --- because, in most cases, they already…

I agree on most of your observations. However, please note that other tools are better suited than aeneas if one wants to align at phoneme level: gentle, Kaldi, SPPAS, etc. aeneas'…

> Might also be possible to look at the spectrum at any time to possibly identify areas of the file to skip. I would say yes and no. Currently you can add a switch that makes aenea…

Definitely. Actually, aeneas can be used as a Python library (rather than just a CLI tool), and you can definitely provide an audio file, a list of audio intervals where the spoken…

Yes, there are several other open source aligners out there, mostly from academic research or derived from academic projects. In my personal GitHub page I have a repo with an annot…

Several users of aeneas interested in producing caption files for videos told me that it does. And considering how DTW works, it is plausible. Unfortunately, I have not had the tim…

Hi, thank you. Having it on conda would be great ( https://github.com/readbeyond/aeneas/issues/158 ), so if you feel like it, it would be wonderful! The two points that proved diff…

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aeneas is not based on ASR (i.e., it does not try to "recognize" words and align them with the input text), but on the "older" MFCC + DTW approach. Hence, it is difficult to give y…

Thank you. Indeed several users of aeneas adopted it for producing SRT/TTML files, i.e. captions, for videos, both online and offline --- and many of them start with an existing tr…