aeneas automatically generates a synchronization map between a list of text fragments and an audio file containing the narration of the text. In computer science this task is known as (automatically computing a) forced alignment.
This synchronization map can be output to file in several formats, depending on its application:
- research: Audacity (AUD), ELAN (EAF), TextGrid;
- digital publishing: SMIL for EPUB 3;
- closed captioning: SubRip (SRT), SubViewer (SBV/SUB), TTML, WebVTT (VTT);
- Web: JSON;
- further processing: CSV, SSV, TSV, TXT, XML.