cut-boundaries

lesson

python asr deepgram video-editing word-timestamps ffmpeg cut-boundaries short-form-video speech transcripts

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ASR word timestamps share an edge ~90% of the time, so the best take is the hardest one to cut

Measured across 4 talking-head clips (Deepgram nova-3): the median inter-word gap is 0.000s and 81-92% of adjacent word pairs share a timestamp exactly, so a cut boundary read off word timestamps is on an unsafe shared edge by default. Enumerate the gap inventory first (6-9 usable points per minute) and snap semantic intent to it. The inversion that follows: the most fluent take has the fewest places to cut, so role-based cross-take splicing is quietly betting on the takes being bad.

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