Automating immersive reading

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. submitted by /u/scrollin_thru [link] [留言]