Another possibly-too-deep dive from me! I took a week off from work recently to reimplement Storyteller's forced alignment algorithm. Storyteller is an open source, self hosted platform for...
Another possibly-too-deep dive from me! I took a week off from work recently to reimplement Storyteller's forced alignment algorithm. Storyteller is an open source, self hosted platform for creating, managing, and reading/listening to "readaloud" books — books that have audiobook narration built in and can highlight each sentence (and/or word, with this new algorithm!) as it's read aloud. Forced alignment is the process of determining where each piece of text starts and ends in the audiobook.
Anyway, I am really pleased with how the new algorithm turned out! Hopefully someone else finds it interesting as well.
A very enjoyable read! The animated/stepped diagrams were very helpful. Though I have to say, "forced alignment"is a pretty ominous name for an otherwise interesting and useful tool.
A very enjoyable read! The animated/stepped diagrams were very helpful. Though I have to say, "forced alignment"is a pretty ominous name for an otherwise interesting and useful tool.
Thanks! I put a lot of time into those graphics — the piece felt very hard to follow without them I think. I'm glad to hear they were helpful! Yeah I "forced alignment" is the technical term — it...
Thanks! I put a lot of time into those graphics — the piece felt very hard to follow without them I think. I'm glad to hear they were helpful!
Yeah I "forced alignment" is the technical term — it has always felt very... aggressive? to me. :shrug:
Another possibly-too-deep dive from me! I took a week off from work recently to reimplement Storyteller's forced alignment algorithm. Storyteller is an open source, self hosted platform for creating, managing, and reading/listening to "readaloud" books — books that have audiobook narration built in and can highlight each sentence (and/or word, with this new algorithm!) as it's read aloud. Forced alignment is the process of determining where each piece of text starts and ends in the audiobook.
Anyway, I am really pleased with how the new algorithm turned out! Hopefully someone else finds it interesting as well.
A very enjoyable read! The animated/stepped diagrams were very helpful. Though I have to say, "forced alignment"is a pretty ominous name for an otherwise interesting and useful tool.
Thanks! I put a lot of time into those graphics — the piece felt very hard to follow without them I think. I'm glad to hear they were helpful!
Yeah I "forced alignment" is the technical term — it has always felt very... aggressive? to me. :shrug: