[D] Speech to Text Word Level Timestamps Accuracy Issue

I've had a lot of success with Whisper when it comes to transcriptions, but word level timestamps seems to be slightly inaccurate. From my understanding ("Whisper cannot provide reliable word timestamps, because the END-TO-END models like Transformer using cross-entropy training criterion are not designed for reliably estimating word timestamps." [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H576iCWt1Co&t=192s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H576iCWt1Co&t=192s)) For my use case, I need precise word level timestamps, because I'm doing audio insertion after specific words. This becomes problematic when I do an insertion and the back part …

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