#!/usr/bin/env python3 import argparse import logging import re import textwrap from dataclasses import dataclass from pathlib import Path # lowercase tokens (en, tr) whose trailing period does not end a sentence ABBREVIATIONS = {"mr", "mrs", "ms", "dr", "prof", "e.g", "i.e", "vs", "etc", "doç", "av", "sn", "vb", "bkz"} # Finds candidate sentence boundaries: end punctuation, optional closers, then whitespace. # Matches in "He left. Then" -> ". " and in 'He said "no." Then' -> '." '. SENTENCE_END = re.compile( r""" [.!?…]+ # one or more end marks: "." "?!" "..." or the ellipsis character [\"'”’)\]]* # closing quotes or brackets that belong to the finished sentence \s+ # whitespace after it; one or more, so double spaces work too """, re.VERBOSE, ) # Matches an SRT time line such as "00:01:02,345 --> 00:01:04,000" and captures the 8 time fields. TIMELINE_PATTERN = re.compile( r""" (\d+):(\d{2}):(\d{2})[,.](\d{3}) # start: hours, minutes, seconds, milliseconds (comma or dot) \s*-->\s* # arrow, with optional spaces around it (\d+):(\d{2}):(\d{2})[,.](\d{3}) # end, same layout """, re.VERBOSE, ) # Matches a whole cue that is only a sound description or music, e.g. "[Music]", "(laughing)", "♪ la la ♪". NONSPEECH_PATTERN = re.compile( r""" ^( \[[^\]]*\] # [ ... ] | \([^)]*\) # ( ... ) | ♪[^♪]*♪? # ♪ ... ♪, closing note optional | ♫[^♫]*♫? # ♫ ... ♫, closing note optional )$ """, re.VERBOSE, ) # Matches inline markup to strip: HTML tags like and , and ASS/SSA overrides like {\an8}. MARKUP_PATTERN = re.compile( r""" <[^>]+> # < ... > | \{[^}]*\} # { ... } """, re.VERBOSE, ) MIN_CUE_DURATION = 0.2 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__) @dataclass class Cue: """A subtitle cue or piece of one; times in seconds. `dialogue` marks cues holding several '- ' speaker lines.""" start: float end: float text: str dialogue: bool = False def parse_args() -> argparse.Namespace: """Parse command-line arguments.""" parser = argparse.ArgumentParser( description="Re-time and re-segment an SRT file mechanically: merge by sentence, split long cues, wrap lines, enforce reading speed.", formatter_class=argparse.ArgumentDefaultsHelpFormatter, ) parser.add_argument("subtitle", type=Path, help="Input SRT file") parser.add_argument("--output", "-o", type=Path, help="Output SRT path (default: .rewritten.srt)") parser.add_argument("--max-line-length", type=int, default=42, help="Max characters per line") parser.add_argument("--max-lines", type=int, default=2, help="Max lines per cue") parser.add_argument("--max-cps", type=float, default=17.0, help="Max characters per second before a cue's end is extended") parser.add_argument("--min-duration", type=float, default=1.0, help="Cues shorter than this (seconds) are merged into a neighbour") parser.add_argument("--max-duration", type=float, default=7.0, help="Cues longer than this (seconds) are split") parser.add_argument("--min-gap", type=float, default=0.04, help="Minimum gap between cues in seconds") parser.add_argument("--drop-nonspeech", action="store_true", help="Remove cues that are only [..], (..) or music notes") return parser.parse_args() def parse_timestamp(hours: str, minutes: str, seconds: str, milliseconds: str) -> float: """Convert the four captured time fields of TIMELINE_PATTERN to seconds.""" return int(hours) * 3600 + int(minutes) * 60 + int(seconds) + int(milliseconds) / 1000 def parse_srt(content: str) -> list[Cue]: """Parse SRT text into cues sorted by start time. Tolerates CRLF line endings and a missing index line. Text lines are flattened into one line and markup is stripped. A cue with two or more lines starting with '- ' is flagged as dialogue. Empty cues are dropped. """ cues = [] # \n\s*\n = a blank line (possibly containing spaces) separates SRT blocks for block in re.split(r"\n\s*\n", content.replace("\r\n", "\n").replace("\r", "\n").strip()): lines = block.split("\n") match = next((found for line in lines[:3] if (found := TIMELINE_PATTERN.search(line))), None) if match is None: raise ValueError(f"Invalid SRT block: {block[:80]!r}") position = next(position for position, line in enumerate(lines[:3]) if TIMELINE_PATTERN.search(line)) body = [line.strip() for line in lines[position + 1 :] if line.strip()] # \s+ -> " " collapses runs of whitespace (including the gaps left by removed markup) to one space text = re.sub(r"\s+", " ", MARKUP_PATTERN.sub("", " ".join(body))).strip() if text: cues.append( Cue( start=parse_timestamp(*match.group(1, 2, 3, 4)), end=parse_timestamp(*match.group(5, 6, 7, 8)), text=text, dialogue=sum(line.startswith("- ") for line in body) >= 2, ) ) if not cues: raise ValueError("SRT contains no cues") cues.sort(key=lambda cue: cue.start) return cues def format_timestamp(seconds: float) -> str: """Format seconds as an SRT timestamp, HH:MM:SS,mmm.""" total_milliseconds = round(seconds * 1000) hours, remainder = divmod(total_milliseconds, 3_600_000) minutes, remainder = divmod(remainder, 60_000) secs, milliseconds = divmod(remainder, 1000) return f"{hours:02d}:{minutes:02d}:{secs:02d},{milliseconds:03d}" def split_sentences(text: str) -> list[str]: """Split text into sentences at SENTENCE_END matches. A boundary is kept only if the next character starts a sentence (uppercase, digit, opening quote/bracket or a '- ' speaker dash) and the word before a period is not a known abbreviation or a single-letter initial. Decimals such as "3.5" never match because no whitespace follows the period. """ sentences = [] start = 0 for match in SENTENCE_END.finditer(text): following = text[match.end() : match.end() + 1] starts_sentence = following.isupper() or following.isdigit() or following in "\"'“‘([" or text.startswith("- ", match.end()) if not following or not starts_sentence: continue punctuation = match.group().strip() # (\S+)$ = the last whitespace-delimited word before the punctuation, e.g. "Dr" in "... Dr." word = re.search(r"(\S+)$", text[start : match.start()]) token = word.group(1).lower().lstrip("\"'“‘([") if word else "" if punctuation.startswith(".") and (token in ABBREVIATIONS or (len(token) == 1 and token.isalpha())): continue sentences.append(text[start : match.start() + len(match.group().rstrip())].strip()) start = match.end() sentences.append(text[start:].strip()) return [sentence for sentence in sentences if sentence] def wrap_text(text: str, width: int, max_lines: int) -> list[str] | None: """Wrap text to at most `max_lines` lines of at most `width` characters, preferring balanced lines. Text of the form "- a - b" is split into one line per speaker when each fits. Returns None if no wrapping fits. """ if len(text) <= width: return [text] if text.startswith("- ") and " - " in text: # \s+(?=- ) = whitespace followed by a dash-space (lookahead, not consumed): splits before each speaker dash speakers = re.split(r"\s+(?=- )", text) if len(speakers) <= max_lines and all(len(line) <= width for line in speakers): return speakers for count in range(2, max_lines + 1): lines = textwrap.wrap(text, width=-(-len(text) // count), break_long_words=False, break_on_hyphens=False) if len(lines) <= max_lines and all(len(line) <= width for line in lines): return lines lines = textwrap.wrap(text, width=width, break_long_words=False, break_on_hyphens=False) return lines if len(lines) <= max_lines and all(len(line) <= width for line in lines) else None def wrap_dialogue(text: str, width: int) -> list[str]: """Wrap a dialogue cue, one or more lines per speaker. The number of lines is not limited.""" lines = [] # \s+(?=- ) = whitespace followed by a dash-space (lookahead, not consumed): splits before each speaker dash for speaker in re.split(r"\s+(?=- )", text): lines.extend(textwrap.wrap(speaker, width=width, break_long_words=False, break_on_hyphens=False)) return lines def time_at(spans: list[tuple[int, Cue]], offset: int, is_end: bool) -> float: """Map a character offset in the joined text to a time, interpolating linearly inside the cue that holds it. `spans` are (offset of cue text in the joined text, cue). For an end offset the cue boundary belongs to the earlier cue, for a start offset to the later one. Offsets in the joining gap snap to the nearest cue edge. """ for span_offset, cue in spans: length = len(cue.text) inside = span_offset < offset <= span_offset + length if is_end else span_offset <= offset < span_offset + length if inside: return cue.start + (cue.end - cue.start) * (offset - span_offset) / length span_offset, cue = min(spans, key=lambda span: min(abs(offset - span[0]), abs(offset - span[0] - len(span[1].text)))) return cue.start if offset <= span_offset else cue.end def sentences_with_times(cues: list[Cue]) -> list[Cue]: """Join the cues' text, split it into sentences and give each sentence a start and end time. A sentence spanning several cues starts where its first character is spoken and ends where its last one is. """ joined = " ".join(cue.text for cue in cues) spans = [] offset = 0 for cue in cues: spans.append((offset, cue)) offset += len(cue.text) + 1 pieces = [] cursor = 0 for sentence in split_sentences(text=joined): position = joined.index(sentence, cursor) cursor = position + len(sentence) pieces.append( Cue( start=time_at(spans=spans, offset=position, is_end=False), end=time_at(spans=spans, offset=cursor, is_end=True), text=sentence, ) ) return pieces def fits(text: str, duration: float, args: argparse.Namespace) -> bool: """Whether one cue can hold `text`: within --max-duration and wrappable into --max-lines lines.""" return duration <= args.max_duration and wrap_text(text=text, width=args.max_line_length, max_lines=args.max_lines) is not None def merge_short(pieces: list[Cue], args: argparse.Namespace) -> list[Cue]: """Merge a piece into the previous one when either is shorter than --min-duration and the result still fits.""" merged: list[Cue] = [] for piece in pieces: if merged: previous = merged[-1] short = piece.end - piece.start < args.min_duration or previous.end - previous.start < args.min_duration text = f"{previous.text} {piece.text}" if short and fits(text=text, duration=piece.end - previous.start, args=args): previous.end = piece.end previous.text = text continue merged.append(piece) return merged def find_split(text: str) -> int | None: """Pick the index at which to cut `text` in two, or None if it is a single word. Prefers the start of the word after a comma, semicolon or colon if it is within 25% of the length from the middle; otherwise the word start nearest the middle. """ middle = len(text) / 2 # \s+ = any whitespace run; match.end() is where the next word starts (interior only, not at either edge) word_starts = [match.end() for match in re.finditer(r"\s+", text) if 0 < match.start() and match.end() < len(text)] if not word_starts: return None # [,;:]\s+ = a clause mark followed by whitespace; match.end() is the start of the next clause clause_starts = [match.end() for match in re.finditer(r"[,;:]\s+", text) if match.end() < len(text)] if clause_starts: best = min(clause_starts, key=lambda index: abs(index - middle)) if abs(best - middle) <= len(text) * 0.25: return best return min(word_starts, key=lambda index: abs(index - middle)) def split_piece(piece: Cue, args: argparse.Namespace) -> list[Cue]: """Recursively split a piece until every part fits, dividing its time in proportion to character length.""" if fits(text=piece.text, duration=piece.end - piece.start, args=args): return [piece] index = find_split(text=piece.text) if index is None: return [piece] left, right = piece.text[:index].strip(), piece.text[index:].strip() middle = piece.start + (piece.end - piece.start) * len(left) / (len(left) + len(right)) return split_piece(piece=Cue(start=piece.start, end=middle, text=left), args=args) + split_piece( piece=Cue(start=middle, end=piece.end, text=right), args=args ) def retime(pieces: list[Cue], args: argparse.Namespace) -> list[int]: """Fix timing in place: remove overlaps, keep --min-gap, and extend a cue's end to meet --max-cps. An end is only extended into free time before the next cue and never beyond --max-duration. Returns the 1-based numbers of cues still above --max-cps. """ over_budget = [] for index, piece in enumerate(pieces): if index and piece.start < pieces[index - 1].end: piece.start = pieces[index - 1].end limit = pieces[index + 1].start - args.min_gap if index + 1 < len(pieces) else float("inf") wanted = piece.start + len(piece.text) / args.max_cps ceiling = min(piece.start + args.max_duration, limit) if wanted > piece.end: piece.end = max(piece.end, min(wanted, ceiling)) if piece.end > limit: piece.end = max(limit, piece.start + MIN_CUE_DURATION) if piece.end <= piece.start: piece.end = piece.start + MIN_CUE_DURATION if len(piece.text) / (piece.end - piece.start) > args.max_cps + 0.01: over_budget.append(index + 1) return over_budget def rewrite(cues: list[Cue], args: argparse.Namespace) -> tuple[list[Cue], list[int]]: """Run the full pipeline. Dialogue and non-speech cues act as barriers and pass through unchanged; the speech between them is merged into sentences, short pieces are merged, long ones split, then retimed. Returns (pieces, numbers of cues still above --max-cps). """ pieces: list[Cue] = [] run: list[Cue] = [] def flush() -> None: if run: pieces.extend( part for piece in merge_short(pieces=sentences_with_times(cues=run), args=args) for part in split_piece(piece=piece, args=args) ) run.clear() for cue in cues: if cue.dialogue or NONSPEECH_PATTERN.match(cue.text): flush() if cue.dialogue or not args.drop_nonspeech: pieces.append(Cue(start=cue.start, end=cue.end, text=cue.text, dialogue=cue.dialogue)) else: run.append(cue) flush() return pieces, retime(pieces=pieces, args=args) def build_srt(pieces: list[Cue], args: argparse.Namespace) -> str: """Render the pieces as SRT, wrapping each to --max-line-length (dialogue cues one speaker per line).""" blocks = [] for index, piece in enumerate(pieces, start=1): if piece.dialogue: lines = wrap_dialogue(text=piece.text, width=args.max_line_length) else: lines = wrap_text(text=piece.text, width=args.max_line_length, max_lines=args.max_lines) or [piece.text] blocks.append(f"{index}\n{format_timestamp(piece.start)} --> {format_timestamp(piece.end)}\n" + "\n".join(lines) + "\n") return "\n".join(blocks) def main() -> None: """Read the SRT, rewrite it and write the result next to it, refusing to overwrite the input.""" logging.basicConfig(level=logging.INFO, format="%(asctime)s %(levelname)s: %(message)s") args = parse_args() if min(args.max_line_length, args.max_lines) < 1 or args.max_cps <= 0: raise SystemExit("--max-line-length, --max-lines and --max-cps must be positive") output = args.output or args.subtitle.with_name(f"{args.subtitle.stem}.rewritten.srt") if output.resolve() == args.subtitle.resolve(): raise SystemExit("Refusing to overwrite the input file") cues = parse_srt(content=args.subtitle.read_text(encoding="utf-8-sig")) pieces, over_budget = rewrite(cues=cues, args=args) output.write_text(build_srt(pieces=pieces, args=args), encoding="utf-8") logger.info("Wrote %d cues (from %d) to %s", len(pieces), len(cues), output) if over_budget: logger.warning("%d cue(s) still above %.1f chars/s (text is not shortened): %s", len(over_budget), args.max_cps, over_budget[:20]) if __name__ == "__main__": main()