Checking caption timing by skimming with Emacs Lisp or JS

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Sometimes automatic subtitle timing tools like Aeneas can get confused by silences, extraneous sounds, filler words, mis-starts, and text that I've edited out of the raw captions for easier readability. It's good to quickly check each caption. I used to listen to captions at 1.5x speed, watching carefully as each caption displayed. This took a...