METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING SCRIPTS AND RELATED DATA

Provided in some embodiments is a method including receiving ordered script words are indicative of dialogue words to be spoken, receiving audio data corresponding to at least a portion of the dialogue words to be spoken and including timecodes associated with dialogue words, generating a matrix of the ordered script words versus the dialogue words, aligning the matrix to determine hard alignment points that include matching consecutive sequences of ordered script words with corresponding sequences of dialogue words, partitioning the matrix of ordered script words into sub-matrices bounded by adjacent hard-alignment points and including corresponding sub-sets the script and dialogue words between the hard-alignment points, and aligning each of the sub-matrices. The alignment of the sub-matrices including: matching script and dialogue words of the sub-subsets, assigning timecodes for matched ordered script words, and interpolating timecodes for the unmatched script words based on the timecodes of the matched script words.