Word-level timing explained

Word-level timing makes the transcript move with the sound, word by word. This page shows what it gives you.

Before you start

• A video with a transcript from an AI run. Only an AI run gives word-level timing.

Steps

1. Open the video in the annotator. The header of the transcript panel shows a small word sync badge.
2. Press the play button. Each word lights up as it is said. The words behind it turn gray.
3. Click any word in the panel. The video jumps to that word.

Check it worked

The panel shows one long run of words, not a list of boxes. That is the word view.

Text from a file has line times only. The panel then shows a box for each segment, and the foot of the panel reads Word-level sync available after AI transcription.

Word times matter for your analysis too. With them, a concordance module can place a hit at the exact word. Without them it can only place it at the line.

To gain word times on old text, run Transcribe again.

If something goes wrong

• The text shows sentences, not words
• Words stop lighting up as the video plays

Related

• Transcribe a video with AI
• Transcribe again
• Transcript panel