Scripted digital media message generation

A non-transitory computer readable medium including one or more sequences of instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the processors to perform operations comprising:

• presenting, by a computing device, a graphical user interface for generating a digital media message comprising a plurality of audio segments;
• presenting, by the computing device in the graphical user interface, a plurality of graphical elements each representing a respective one of the audio segments in the digital media message, the graphical elements arranged according to an order in which the corresponding audio segments will be presented when the digital media message is played, each of the plurality of graphical elements operable to select a visual content to associate with a respective one of the audio segments;
• presenting, by the computing device in the graphical user interface, a plurality of text segments simultaneously, each text segment representing speech in a respective one of the audio segments in the digital media message, the text segments arranged according to an order in which the corresponding audio segments will be presented when the digital media message is played;
• receiving, by the computing device, user input with respect to a first graphical element of the plurality of graphical elements presented on the graphical user interface, the user input selecting a first visual content;
• and
• responsive to the user input with respect to the first graphical element:
• presenting, by the computing device, a first thumbnail image representing at least a portion of the first visual content in association with a first text segment corresponding to the first graphical element.

A system comprising:

• one or more processors;
• and
• a non-transitory computer readable medium including one or more sequences of instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the processors to perform operations comprising:
• presenting, by a computing device, a graphical user interface for generating a digital media message comprising a plurality of audio segments;
• presenting, by the computing device in the graphical user interface, a plurality of graphical elements each representing a respective one of the audio segments in the digital media message, the graphical elements arranged according to an order in which the corresponding audio segments will be presented when the digital media message is played, each of the plurality of graphical elements operable to select a visual content to associate with a respective one of the audio segments;
• presenting, by the computing device in the graphical user interface, a plurality of text segments simultaneously, each text segment representing speech in a respective one of the audio segments in the digital media message, the text segments arranged according to an order in which the corresponding audio segments will be presented when the digital media message is played;
• receiving, by the computing device, user input with respect to a first graphical element of the plurality of graphical elements presented on the graphical user interface, the user input selecting a first visual content;
• and
• responsive to the user input with respect to the first graphical element:
• presenting, by the computing device, a first thumbnail image representing at least a portion of the first visual content in association with a first text segment corresponding to the first graphical element.