example-usage-align-stt.js

// const alignSTT = require('@bbc/stt-align-node').alignSTT;
const alignSTT = require('../src/index.js').alignSTT;
const fs = require('fs');

// file path relative to root
const transcriptText = fs.readFileSync('./sample/data/ted-talk/ted-talk-kate.txt').toString();
// file path relative to this file.
const transcriptStt = require('../sample/data/ted-talk/ted-talk-kate-kaldi.json').retval;
// const transcriptStt = { 
//     words: [
//         { start: 13.05, end: 13.21, word: 'there' },
//         { start: 13.21, end: 13.38, word: 'is' },
//         { start: 13.38, end: 13.44, word: 'a' },
//         { start: 13.44, end: 13.86, word: 'day' },
//         { start: 13.86, end: 14.13, word: 'about' },
//         { start: 14.13, end: 14.37, word: 'ten' },
//         { start: 14.37, end: 14.61, word: 'years' },
//         { start: 14.61, end: 15.15, word: 'ago' },
//         { start: 15.44, end: 15.67, word: 'when' },
//         { start: 15.67, end: 15.82, word: 'i' },
//         { start: 15.82, end: 16.19, word: 'asked' },
//         { start: 16.19, end: 16.27, word: 'a' },
//         { start: 16.27, end: 16.65, word: 'friend' },
//         { start: 16.65, end: 16.74, word: 'to' },
//         { start: 16.74, end: 17.2, word: 'hold' },
//         { start: 17.23, end: 17.32, word: 'a' },
//         { start: 17.32, end: 17.63, word: 'baby' },
//         { start: 17.63, end: 18.13, word: 'dinosaur' },
//         { start: 18.17, end: 18.61, word: 'robot' },
//         { start: 18.72, end: 19.17, word: 'upside' },
//         { start: 19.17, end: 19.56, word: 'down' }
//     ]
// }

const result = alignSTT( transcriptStt, transcriptText);
// do something with the result
console.log(JSON.stringify(result,null,2));

fs.writeFileSync('./sample/output/ted-talk-kate-aligned.json',JSON.stringify(result,null,2));