import argparse import os import re import subprocess from pathlib import Path SRT_BLOCK_RE = re.compile( r"\s*(\d+)\s+([\d:,]+)\s+-->\s+([\d:,]+)\s+(.+?)(?=\n\s*\d+\s+\d\d:|\Z)", re.S, ) def to_seconds(timestamp: str) -> float: h, m, rest = timestamp.split(":") s, ms = rest.split(",") return int(h) * 3600 + int(m) * 60 + int(s) + int(ms) / 1000 def read_srt(path: Path) -> list[tuple[float, float, str]]: text = path.read_text(encoding="utf-8-sig") captions = [] for _, start, end, body in SRT_BLOCK_RE.findall(text): clean_text = " ".join(line.strip() for line in body.strip().splitlines()) captions.append((to_seconds(start), to_seconds(end), clean_text)) if not captions: raise ValueError(f"No captions found in {path}") return captions def resolve_path(value: str) -> Path: return Path(value).expanduser().resolve() def media_duration(path: Path) -> float: result = subprocess.run( ["ffprobe", "-v", "error", "-show_entries", "format=duration", "-of", "default=noprint_wrappers=1:nokey=1", str(path)], check=True, capture_output=True, text=True, ) return float(result.stdout.strip()) def run(command: list[str]) -> None: print("Running:", " ".join(command)) subprocess.run(command, check=True) def main() -> None: parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="Create a timed voiceover WAV/MP3 from an SRT file on macOS.") parser.add_argument("--srt", required=True, help="Input SRT file") parser.add_argument("--voice", default="Daniel", help="macOS voice name, e.g. Daniel or Reed (English (US))") parser.add_argument("--rate", type=int, default=185, help="Speech rate. Higher is faster. Example: 180-200") parser.add_argument("--wav", required=True, help="Output WAV file") parser.add_argument("--mp3", default=None, help="Optional output MP3 file") args = parser.parse_args() srt_path = resolve_path(args.srt) wav_output = resolve_path(args.wav) mp3_output = resolve_path(args.mp3) if args.mp3 else None work_dir = Path(__file__).resolve().parent / "voice_parts" if not srt_path.exists(): raise FileNotFoundError(f"SRT not found: {srt_path}") work_dir.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True) wav_output.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True) if mp3_output: mp3_output.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True) captions = read_srt(srt_path) segment_files = [] for i, (start, end, text) in enumerate(captions, 1): duration = end - start raw_aiff = work_dir / f"raw_{i:03d}.aiff" segment_wav = work_dir / f"seg_{i:03d}.wav" run(["say", "-v", args.voice, "-r", str(args.rate), "-o", str(raw_aiff), text]) spoken_duration = media_duration(raw_aiff) if spoken_duration > duration: print(f"Warning: caption {i} speech is {spoken_duration:.2f}s but slot is {duration:.2f}s; it will be trimmed.") run([ "ffmpeg", "-y", "-i", str(raw_aiff), "-af", f"apad,atrim=0:{duration}", "-ar", "44100", "-ac", "2", str(segment_wav), ]) segment_files.append(segment_wav) concat_list = work_dir / "list.txt" concat_list.write_text("".join(f"file '{os.path.abspath(file)}'\n" for file in segment_files), encoding="utf-8") run(["ffmpeg", "-y", "-f", "concat", "-safe", "0", "-i", str(concat_list), "-c:a", "pcm_s16le", str(wav_output)]) print(f"Done: {wav_output}") if mp3_output: run(["ffmpeg", "-y", "-i", str(wav_output), "-codec:a", "libmp3lame", "-b:a", "192k", str(mp3_output)]) print(f"Done: {mp3_output}") if __name__ == "__main__": main()