Systems and methods for aligning text and multimedia content

A machine-implemented method for providing real-time automated logging of broadcast content, comprising:

• receiving, from a multimedia content database, multimedia content comprising a plurality of multimedia content portions of the multimedia content;
• receiving, from a transcript database, text data corresponding to words spoken in the multimedia content, wherein the text data comprises a plurality of text data subdivisions of the text data, wherein each of the plurality of text data subdivisions comprises a plurality of secondary subdivisions;
• aligning the multimedia content and the text data by determining, for each of the plurality of secondary subdivisions, a corresponding portion of a multimedia content portion of the plurality of multimedia content portions, by:
• performing a first pass by:
• generating, from the text data, a first phrase search list for each of the plurality of text data subdivisions, wherein the first phrase search list comprises a first plurality of phrases each comprising a first number of words;
• and
• determining whether each phrase of the first plurality of phrases corresponds to the multimedia content by determining whether the words of each phrase correspond to a portion of the words spoken in the multimedia content and performing a second pass, by:
• generating, from the text data, a second phrase search list for each of the plurality of secondary subdivisions for which the corresponding portion of a subdivision of the plurality of multimedia content portions was not identified during the first pass, wherein the second phrase search list comprises a second plurality of phrases each comprising a second number of words;
• and
• determining whether each phrase of the second plurality of phrases corresponds to the multimedia content by determining whether the words of each phrase of the second plurality of phrases correspond to a portion of the words spoken in the multimedia content;
• and
• causing display of the multimedia content aligned to the text data.

A multimedia content and text alignment system, comprising:

• a multimedia content database comprising multimedia content, wherein the multimedia content comprises a plurality of multimedia content portions of the multimedia content;
• a transcript database comprising text data corresponding to words spoken in the multimedia content, wherein the text data comprises a plurality of text data subdivisions of the text data, wherein each of the plurality of text data subdivisions comprises a plurality of secondary subdivisions;
• an alignment system comprising processing circuitry configured to:
• receive, from the multimedia content database, the multimedia content;
• receive, from the transcript database, the text data;
• and
• align the multimedia content and the text data by determining, for each of the plurality of secondary subdivisions, a corresponding portion of a multimedia content portion of the plurality of multimedia content portions, by:
• performing a first pass by:
• generating, from the text data, a first phrase search list for each of the plurality of text data subdivisions, wherein the first phrase search list comprises a first plurality of phrases each comprising a first number of words;
• and
• determining whether each phrase of the first plurality of phrases corresponds to the multimedia content by determining whether the words of each phrase correspond to a portion of the words spoken in the multimedia content and performing a second pass, by:
• generating, from the text data, a second phrase search list for each of the plurality of secondary subdivisions for which the corresponding portion of a subdivision of the plurality of multimedia content portions was not identified during the first pass, wherein the second phrase search list comprises a second plurality of phrases each comprising a second number of words;
• and
• determining whether each phrase of the second plurality of phrases corresponds to the multimedia content by determining whether the words of each phrase of the second plurality of phrases correspond to a portion of the words spoken in the multimedia content.