I'm experimenting with the new SpeechTranscriber in macOS/iOS 26, transcribing speech from a prerecorded mp4 file. Speed and quality are amazing!
I've told the transcriber to include time indexes. Each run is always exactly one word, which can be very useful. When I look at the indexes the end of one run is always identical to the start of the next run, even if there's a pause.
I'd like to identify pauses, perhaps to generate something like phrases for subtitling. With each run of text going into the next I can't do this, other than using punctuation - which might be rather rough.
Any suggestions on detecting pauses, or getting that kind of metadata from the transcriber?
Here's a short sample, showing each run with the start, end, and characters in the run:
105.9 --> 107.04 I
107.04 --> 107.16 think
107.16 --> 108.0 more
108.0 --> 108.42 lighting
108.42 --> 108.6 is
108.6 --> 108.72 definitely
108.72 --> 109.2 needed,
109.2 --> 109.92 downtown.
109.98 --> 110.4 My
110.4 --> 110.52 only
110.52 --> 110.7 question
110.7 --> 111.06 is,
111.06 --> 111.48 poll
111.48 --> 111.78 five,
111.78 --> 111.84 that
111.84 --> 112.08 you're
112.08 --> 112.38 increasing
112.38 --> 112.5 the
112.5 --> 113.34 50,000?
113.4 --> 113.58 Where
113.58 --> 113.88 exactly
