This is why badly done lip synching is disturbing, and even offensive. It's the reason that accurate lip synching is so important. The quality of the Lip Synch Machine is similar to that of the most careful and detailed work by professional and highly experienced human track readers, at the level of accuracy expected in feature film production. The Lip Synch Machine can synchronize the transcription of the speech or the news segment with the audio record. This gives you the information of exactly what piece of audio contains the spoken form of any selected piece of the text, from words to paragraphs to whole segments.
Audio indexing becomes a matter of text processing.
Science Linguists, phoneticians, speech scientists, speech recognition and synthesis engineers, psychologists, etc., can use the LSM to study human, spoken language. They use it to locate acoustic events of interest from either experimental or naturalistic studies. With the LSM's timing information, they can look at just the relevant parts of the signal, saving time and often improving accuracy in an otherwise tedious, painstaking, and error-prone manual process of making signal measurements. These make a running commentary or dialog about the events in the game. Segmenting the words is an important and otherwise painstaking task in this process.