Fast Forward Audio prototype, BBC R&D New News Team - Tristan

A new mobile interface to allow easier skimming and scrubbing of video and audio with subtitles or transcripts.

Collaborative notes

• https://bit.ly/2LprQFQ

• https://newnews.netlify.com/rd/fastforward/ (idk the password??)

• For alignment

  • Original transcript for show & clean up

  • Use kaldi to time align transcript

  • Custom script to find start/end times of sentences (a gist I can’t copy)

• Kaldi has speaker IDs — manually matches up IDs with pictures/people

• Kaldi is bad at punctuation, so uses original document to help with that

Slides https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1aQnhyp8oWomG-y2dwHH9dOLO4QnCwuPk5Vfql4GrniI/edit?usp=sharing