Storyteller's Shane Friedman explains the CTC aligner behind immersive reading
Storyteller aligns user-owned ebooks and audiobooks, then writes timing into EPUB 3 Media Overlays.
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Primary source: smoores.dev
Why it matters
Audible and Spotify offer features that connect reading with audiobook playback inside their services. Storyteller instead writes synchronization data into open EPUB files that readers can keep, copy and use with compatible software.
Shane Friedman has detailed the CTC-based forced-alignment system behind Storyteller, his self-hosted reading platform for synchronizing user-supplied ebooks and audiobooks.
Friedman published the explanation in an August 30th technical post. Storyteller is testing v3 releases, while the alignment algorithm remains the project's technical center.…