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OpenNewsLabs / autoEdit_2

Fast text based video editing, node Electron Os X desktop app, with Backbone front end.
https://opennewslabs.github.io/autoEdit_2/
MIT License
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Sparse timecode button and function #78

Closed bfasenfest closed 5 years ago

bfasenfest commented 5 years ago

Create function to make more human readable timecoded transcripts

pietrop commented 5 years ago

ok, thanks for the PR @bfasenfest !

Happy to merge as you got an immediate need for it.

The only thing I can think of that is good to think about for future improvements, is that the line segmentation is dependent on the lines provided by the STT service. and therefore for services such as assemblyAI where at the moment we get no lines, it would not segment. see below.

[00:00:00]
Moby dick or the whale by herman melville one looming call me ishmael some years ago. Never mind how long precisely having little or no money in my purse. Nothing particularly. Interesting on. Sure. I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world. It's a way I have of driving off the spleen and regulating the circulation whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth whenever it's a damp drizzly november in my soul. Whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me that it requires a strong moral pr..

In future could consider adding some logic to do line segmentation based on sentences / punctuation. to make this less arbitrary and not dependent on STT service.