Abstract: In an aspect, in general, method for aligning an audio recording and a transcript includes receiving a transcript including a plurality of terms, each term of the plurality of terms associated with a time location within a different version of the audio recording, forming a plurality of search terms from the terms of the transcript, determining possible time locations of the search terms in the audio recording, determining a correspondence between time locations within the different version of the audio recording associated with the search terms and the possible time locations of the search terms in the audio recording, and aligning the audio recording and the transcript including updating the time location associated with terms of the transcript based on the determined correspondence.

Abstract: In an aspect, in general, method for aligning an audio recording and a transcript includes receiving a transcript including a plurality of terms, each term of the plurality of terms associated with a time location within a different version of the audio recording, forming a plurality of search terms from the terms of the transcript, determining possible time locations of the search terms in the audio recording, determining a correspondence between time locations within the different version of the audio recording associated with the search terms and the possible time locations of the search terms in the audio recording, and aligning the audio recording and the transcript including updating the time location associated with terms of the transcript based on the determined correspondence.

Abstract: Some general aspects relate to systems, software, and methods for media processing. In one aspect, a script associated with a multimedia recording is accepted, wherein the script includes dialogue, speaker indications and video event indications. A group of search terms are formed from the dialogue, with each search term being associated with a location within the script. Zero or more putative locations of each of the search terms are identified in a time interval of the multimedia recording. For at least some of the search terms, multiple putative locations are identified in the time interval of the multimedia recording. The time interval of the multimedia recording and the script are partially aligned using the determined putative locations of the search terms and one or more of the following: a result of matching audio characteristics of the multimedia recording with the speaker indications, and a result of matching video characteristics of the multimedia recording with the video event indications.