Support for .ass lyrics/subtitle files

Feature description:

I want to use symfonium for my abogen generated audiobooks, since symfonium now supports karaoke style lyrics I think it should be possible to display highlighted subtitles while the audiobook is playing

the format of the files looks something like this:

[Script Info]
Title: Generated by Abogen
ScriptType: v4.00+

[V4+ Styles]
Format: Name, Fontname, Fontsize, PrimaryColour, SecondaryColour, OutlineColour, BackColour, Bold, Italic, Underline, StrikeOut, ScaleX, ScaleY, Spacing, Angle, BorderStyle, Outline, Shadow, Alignment, MarginL, MarginR, MarginV, Encoding
Style: Default,Arial,24,&H00FFFFFF,&H00808080,&H00000000,&H00404040,0,0,0,0,100,100,0,0,3,2,0,5,10,10,10,1

[Events]
Format: Layer, Start, End, Style, Name, MarginL, MarginR, MarginV, Effect, Text
Dialogue: 0,0:00:00.10,0:00:00.31,Default,,90,90,0,karaoke,{\an5}{\kf16}1 {\kf4}.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:00.31,0:00:04.38,Default,,90,90,0,karaoke,{\an5}{\kf12}And {\kf9}we {\kf7}are {\kf14}here {\kf7}as {\kf9}on {\kf5}a {\kf25}darkling {\kf19}plain {\kf17}Swept {\kf9}with {\kf30}confused {\kf22}alarms {\kf7}of {\kf22}struggle {\kf11}and {\kf32}flight{\kf3}, {\kf12}Where {\kf25}ignorant {\kf25}armies {\kf19}clash {\kf10}by {\kf38}night{\kf6}.

Problem solved:

currently .ass files are not recognised as lyrics of files with identical names

Brought benefits:

it would enable users to listen to audiobooks with subtitle highlighting in symfonium

Other application solutions:

 

 

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Sorry no plans for that, it’s the worst format possible and if I start touching that people will want support for all the extensions and format and positioning and and and and.

There’s plenty of tools to convert those to ttml or srt that you can keep alongside your ass files.

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