We're doing forced alignment with audio recordings i.e. podcasts. Here's an example from a test client: https://www.withfanfare.com/p/seldon-crisis/search-by-the-fo...
Grateful for any feedback you might have.
Also, if you run a knowledge-dense podcast, or know somebody that does, I would love to talk to you/them. I'm for example considering to link places, people and things in a transcript.
You're doing cool work, good luck with your service! It looks very useful and if someone I know is running a podcast I'll recommend it for sure; it looks really well-done and polished (at least the example you shared).
We know the start and end timestamps on a word level and we know the current player time. So all we do is set a CSS class on the words that are currently playing. We not only highlight the current word, but also the words that are close in time. This is what generates the effect.
We just released autoscroll, which is something that was requested often.
Excuse the question, but "forced alignment" is when you don't have timestamps, like in webvtt?
Yes, exactly. We do forced alignment when you edit your transcript. The new words don't have any timestamps, so we need to align them. For short sections we use interpolation. If we need align whole sections we use Gentle[^1].