Subtitles and timed texts
27 Mar 2015I am currently working on a Swift parser for various types of subtitles and timed texts. As always the Xcode Playground makes it very useful to try things out, although I would like a way of adding some sort of unit tests.
At the moment my aim is on trying to see what sort of resources are available online; my interest is in working with foreign languages to help teach students or to improve my own knowledge.
The following is some code that as a way of trying to identify what type of timed text the user has given us. It uses a NSScanner to try and look for features and although it doesn’t work with everything that I found1, it seems to work well most of the time.
Obviously this code is for when the user pastes text that they have found online.
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I found some .lrc files that have extra/invalid text at the start ↩