Create timestamps for subtitles in audibook
<p>I want to add timestamps to book sentences, fitting the relevant audiobook.
In various languages ideally.</p>

<p><strong>Here's an example:</strong><br>
<em>Pride and prejudice</em><br>
<a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1342/pg1342.txt" rel="nofollow">text from gutenberg project</a><br>
<a href="http://ia700408.us.archive.org/8/items/pride_prejudice_1102_librivox/prideandprejudice_01_austen_64kb.mp3" rel="nofollow">audio from Librivox</a></p>

<p>My idea was to find a voice recognition tool that puts timestamps on sentences (step 1), and then map the messy transcription to the original text using levenshtein distances (step 2).</p>

<p>The website <a href="https://speechlogger.appspot.com/" rel="nofollow">https://speechlogger.appspot.com/</a> offers a solution to the 1st step, but it's limited in character output. I could theoritically use web automation to get the job done, by starting a new recording every minute or so, but it's really dirty.</p>

<p>I scripted step 2 in R and tested it on a sample I got from speechlogger and it works okayish, but this could be greatly improved if the program knew the text, like when you read to train a speech recognition software. I'm not using all my information here by transcribing first.</p>

<p>So my questions are, what alternative ways could i have to timestamp audio files, and is there a way i can make my process smarter by letting the recognition engine know what it's supposed to recognize ?</p>