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# 01 — FRAME-EXACT SENTENCE SEGMENTATION (Whisper word timings -> video segments)
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# MODULE: Salai > nlp (Natural Language / Segmentation layer)
# ARCHITECTURE: Multi-stage ingestion pipeline (metadata -> audio -> vision ->
# nlp -> relational/vector DB). This snippet is the NLP
# segmentation stage inside a modular, config-driven CLI app.
# State management is deliberately minimal: heavy ML resources
# (spaCy pipelines) are cached in module-level singletons, while
# all durable state lives in PostgreSQL (pgvector).
# PURPOSE: Convert word-level Whisper transcription timing into
# frame-exact, contiguous, non-overlapping video segments —
# one speech segment per spoken sentence, with every inter-
# sentence gap (plus head and tail) emitted as a tagged silence
# segment so ALL footage is indexed, including b-roll.
# DATA FLOW: Whisper words: [{text, start, end}, ...] (seconds, float)
# -> joined into one text + per-word char-offset map
# -> spaCy blank "sentencizer" splits into sentences
# -> sentence char spans mapped back to word indices
# -> word second-timings converted to integer frames
# -> monotonicity guard repairs Whisper timing glitches
# -> configurable tail-padding absorbs word releases
# -> silence segments interleaved to fill every gap
# INVARIANT: segments tile [0, total_frames) exactly once:
# segments[i].end_frame == segments[i+1].start_frame, with
# half-open [start_frame, end_frame) intervals throughout, so
# every frame belongs to exactly one segment and a keyframe
# can never be attributed to two segments.
#
# WHY THIS SAMPLE: demonstrates (1) span-mapping between two index spaces
# (character offsets vs. word timings vs. frame indices), (2) defensive
# handling of non-monotonic output from an external ML model, (3) a strict
# tiling invariant enforced by construction rather than by after-the-fact
# checks, and (4) the frozen-dataclass domain-model style.
#
# Extracted from: modules/nlp.py (Salai semantic video EDL generator)
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from dataclasses import dataclass
# --- External dependency -------------------------------------------------
# spaCy is used ONLY for punctuation-based sentence splitting. A blank
# pipeline with the rule-based "sentencizer" pipe needs no model download,
# which keeps this stage deterministic and offline-friendly.
import spacy
# --- Lightweight stubs ----------------------------------------------------
# In the real project these come from modules.errors (a shared error/UX
# module). `progress` emits a single '.' tick per call when the app is not
# running in verbose mode — a low-noise progress indicator for long ingests.
import functools
def progress(func):
"""STUB of modules.errors.progress: ticks '.' per call when not verbose."""
@functools.wraps(func)
def wrapper(*args, **kwargs):
cfg = kwargs.get('cfg')
if cfg is not None and not cfg.get('verbose', False):
print(".", end="", flush=True)
return func(*args, **kwargs)
return wrapper
# System tags use angle brackets so they can never collide with a spoken word.
SILENCE_TAG = "<silence>"
@dataclass(frozen=True)
class VideoSegment:
"""One contiguous slice of a video. Speech segments carry text; silence
segments have text=None and are tagged with SILENCE_TAG downstream.
Frames are half-open: [start_frame, end_frame), and consecutive segments
share boundaries — this is the contract the whole DB/pipeline relies on."""
start_frame: int
end_frame: int
text: str | None
is_silence: bool = False
# Module-level singleton: the sentencizer is identical for every call, so it
# is built once per process rather than per segment.
_sentencizer = None
def _get_sentencizer():
"""Lightweight punctuation-based sentence splitter (no model download needed)."""
global _sentencizer
if _sentencizer is None:
_sentencizer = spacy.blank("en")
_sentencizer.add_pipe("sentencizer")
return _sentencizer
@progress
def build_sentence_segments(words: list[dict], total_frames: int, fps: float,
cfg: dict = None) -> list[VideoSegment]:
"""
Builds frame-exact, contiguous, non-overlapping segments from timed Whisper words.
Strictly one sentence per speech segment. Gaps between sentences, the video head,
and the tail become silence segments tagged SILENCE_TAG downstream. Segments tile
[0, total_frames) exactly once: seg[i].end_frame == seg[i+1].start_frame.
Args:
words: Whisper word dicts — [{"text": str, "start": float_secs, "end": float_secs}]
total_frames: Total frame count of the source video.
fps: Frame rate used to convert word second-timings into frames.
cfg: App config dict (only 'verbose' and
segmentation.speech_tail_padding_frames are read here).
"""
if total_frames <= 0:
return []
if not words:
# No speech at all: the entire video is one silence (b-roll) segment.
return [VideoSegment(start_frame=0, end_frame=total_frames,
text=None, is_silence=True)]
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# STEP 1: Join words into one string and record each word's char span,
# so sentence char spans (produced by spaCy) can be mapped back onto
# word indices (which are the only things carrying timing data).
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full_text= " ".join(w["text"] for w in words)
word_offsets= []
cursor= 0
for w in words:
word_offsets.append((cursor, cursor + len(w["text"])))
cursor = len(w["text"]) + 1 # +1 for the space separator
doc= _get_sentencizer()(full_text)
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# STEP 2: For each sentence, find its first/last word indices by
# intersecting char spans, then convert the words' second-timings to
# integer frames, clamped to the video's frame range.
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speech_spans= [] # list of (start_frame, end_frame, sentence_text)
for sent in doc.sents:
first_word= last_word= None
for idx, (w_start, w_end) in enumerate(word_offsets):
if first_word is None and w_start >= sent.start_char and w_start < sent.end_char:
first_word= idx
if w_end > sent.start_char and w_end <= sent.end_char:
last_word= idx
if first_word is None:
continue
if last_word is None:
last_word= first_word
start_frame= max(0, min(int(round(words[first_word]["start"] * fps)), total_frames - 1))
end_frame= max(start_frame + 1, min(int(round(words[last_word]["end"] * fps)), total_frames))
# Guard against Whisper emitting non-monotonic word timings:
# if a sentence's start lands INSIDE the previous sentence's span,
# push it to the previous span's end so spans never overlap.
if speech_spans and start_frame < speech_spans[-1][1]:
start_frame= speech_spans[-1][1]
end_frame= max(start_frame + 1, end_frame)
speech_spans.append((start_frame, end_frame, sent.text.strip()))
if not speech_spans:
return [VideoSegment(start_frame=0, end_frame=total_frames,
text=None, is_silence=True)]
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# STEP 3: Pad each speech segment's tail into the following gap so word
# releases (plosives, breaths) aren't clipped into the silence segment.
# The pad is CAPPED at the next sentence's start, so boundaries stay
# monotonic and overall coverage stays gapless.
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tail_pad= int(cfg.get('segmentation', {}).get('speech_tail_padding_frames', 0)) if cfg else 0
if tail_pad > 0:
speech_spans = [
(start,
min(end + tail_pad,
speech_spans[i + 1][0] if i + 1 < len(speech_spans) else total_frames),
text)
for i, (start, end, text) in enumerate(speech_spans)
]
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# STEP 4: Interleave silence segments so every frame belongs to exactly
# one segment. A single cursor walks the timeline; any gap between the
# cursor and the next speech span becomes a silence segment (this covers
# the head gap, inter-sentence gaps, and — after the loop — the tail).
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segments= []
cursor_frame= 0
for start_frame, end_frame, text in speech_spans:
if start_frame > cursor_frame:
segments.append(VideoSegment(start_frame=cursor_frame,
end_frame=start_frame,
text=None, is_silence=True))
segments.append(VideoSegment(start_frame=start_frame,
end_frame=end_frame, text=text))
cursor_frame = end_frame
if cursor_frame < total_frames:
segments.append(VideoSegment(start_fram=cursor_frame,
end_fram=total_frames,
tex=None, is_silenc=True))
return segments
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# EXAMPLE (conceptual):
# words= [{"text": "Hello", "start": 2.0, "end": 2.4},
# {"text": "world.", "start": 2.4, "end": 2.9},
# {"text": "Cut", "start": 5.0, "end": 5.2},
# {"text": "here.", "start": 5.2, "end": 5.6}]
# build_sentence_segments(words, total_frame=180, fp=30)
# ->
# [VideoSegment(0, 60, None, True), # head silence [0f, 60f)
# VideoSegment(60, 87, "Hello world."), # sentence 1 [60f, 87f)
# VideoSegment(87, 150, None, True), # gap silence [87f, 150f)
# VideoSegment(150, 168, "Cut here."), # sentence 2 [150f, 168f)
# VideoSegment(168, 180, None, True)] # tail silence [168f, 180f)
# Every one of the 180 frames appears in exactly one segment.
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