WinCaps Q4 Pro

Automatic text-to-speech alignment – speeds up timecoding by assigning timecodes automatically based on phonetic alignment of the (known) subtitle text with the spoken words in the audio track. The alignment process is augmented by the timing rules also used in the standard version (e.g. reading speed, shot-changes, gaps) to ensure well timed subtitles, which can be manually adjusted when required.

Alignment accuracy depends on the audio quality and is less reliable where there are intrusive sound effects, simultaneous speakers or long periods without dialogue for instance – for most programming we therefore recommend timecoding in sections rather than an entire program and the UI is designed with that in mind.

The aligner can be used with a script or transcript, regular keyboard input or with respeaking (see below). Indeed, when used with respeaking a fairly accurate subtitle file can be produced very quickly indeed, with only a minimal amount of subsequent editing needed. This enables offline captioning of fast turnaround material that would otherwise have to be live captioned (avoiding the inevitable latency and occasional inaccuracy associated with that).

This feature currently supports the following languages only: Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Spanish and Swedish.

Watch our Walk Through video of the Aligner below.