Systems and methods for interrelating text transcript information with video and/or audio information

A method performed by a computing device for manipulating audiovisual data using transcript information, the method comprising:

• creating a computer-generated transcript of audio data from the audiovisual data, the computer-generated transcript includes a plurality of words, at least some words of the plurality of words are associated with a respective timestamp and a confidence score;
• receiving a traditional transcript of the audio data, the traditional transcript includes a plurality of words that are not associated with timestamps;
• identifying one or more words from the at least some words of the plurality of words of the computer-generated transcript that match words from the plurality of words of the traditional transcript;
• associating the timestamp of the one or more words of the computer-generated transcript with the matching word of the traditional transcript to produce an aligned transcript;
• and
• after producing the aligned transcript:
• presenting at least one of the aligned transcripts and the traditional transcript to a user so the user may identify one or more portions for redaction;
• detecting in the aligned transcript the one or more portions selected by the user;
• and
• responsive to detecting, removing, with no human intervention, the one or more portions of the audiovisual data at a time of the respective timestamp associated with the one or more portions in the aligned transcript.

A method performed by a computing device for redacting an audiovisual data, the method comprising:

• after an aligned transcript is produced:
• receiving the aligned transcript;
• receiving the audiovisual data associated with the aligned transcript;
• detecting in the aligned transcript at least one of one or more words and one or more portions selected by a user;
• and
• responsive to detecting, removing from a playback of the audiovisual data, with no human intervention, the at least one of one or more words and one or more portions at a time of a timestamp in the aligned transcript associated with the at least one of one or more words and one or more portions.