Recently, I’ve spent quite a lot of time working on Storyteller. It’s an open source, self-hostable platform for automatically syncing audiobooks and ebooks. You give Storyteller the ebook and audiobook files for the same book, and it spits out a new ebook file with the audio embedded, such that the text can be highlighted while the audio is playing. In order to do this, Storyteller has to answer a pretty challenging question: How do you automatically align the text with the corresponding...
