Show HN: I made an extension to watch Netflix films with screenplays in sync

Post by AriaMinaei » Mon, Aug 17, 2020, 8:43 AM UTC

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I'd definitely be interested to read more about the tech. I wonder if it can be used to time-sync audiobooks to their ebooks counterparts. This is my use-case: Kindle has a feature called "Audible Narration." You buy a Kindle book, and the Audible audio book, which allows you to play the audio book while it highlights the words on the Kindle book as you're listening. This effortless switching between audio and text e…

The task is called 'forced alignment', take a look at aeneas and other projects at https://www.readbeyond.it/ :) IIRC, Aeneas has some features for handling extra text and the beginning/end of the book, while abridgement etc. isn't handled.

Post by matt-attack » Mon, Aug 17, 2020, 2:56 PM UTC

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I watched a video recently that touched on this subject when talking about the TV show House. If you read the script for a regular House episode, there's no conclusion to be had besides House being an insufferable, racist prick. Instead, Hugh Laurie delivers the obviously racist lines so sarcastically that it makes them work very well (which is obviously what the writers were going on).

I've recently watched House and I found this more uncomfy than I did the first time. House (the character) is often being plainly racist and sexist. The fact that he presents it as sarcasm is a vehicle for him, used to make his racism more difficult to challenge.

Post by learnstats2 » Tue, Aug 18, 2020, 9:56 AM UTC

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I've recently watched House and I found this more uncomfy than I did the first time. House (the character) is often being plainly racist and sexist. The fact that he presents it as sarcasm is a vehicle for him, used to make his racism more difficult to challenge.

But can’t shows be about racist people? I mean there’s shows about murderers all day. Do people critique shows (think Dexter) as “uncomfy”? You can laugh at, and even find endearing, racists characters. It’s part of being a grown up I believe.

Post by mapgrep » Thu, Aug 20, 2020, 5:29 PM UTC

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Very cool. I have been fascinated by this whole area of what I call “media stapling” since I spent about two years obsessively watching the Big Lebowski as a stress reliever. This film has no commentary track so people have recorded their own and you have to sort of just manually sync up the mp3. I also do a lot of interview transcription where text is stapled to audio. Anyway I see you have a comment here where you…

Sounds like Rifftrax, the successor to Mystery science Theater 3000