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by symstym 2669 days ago
Nice! Have you seen this similar project? If not sure if there are any ideas to be borrowed, but it sounds like it achieved excellent accuracy: https://github.com/AlbertoSabater/subtitle-synchronization
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Interesting! I was not aware of that project before. It looks like it could be worthwhile to incorporate their neural net-based VAD, if it's not too slow. At a first glance, it looks like the main difference is the postprocessing step -- they use some heuristics to avoid trying all possible alignments, while subsync uses FFT as its secret sauce to get away with trying out all of them. :)

I should include in the readme that for >1 hour movies, it usually finishes the synchronization in ~20 seconds, which compares favorably to the project linked in your comment (13 minutes unoptimized, 2 minutes optimized).