ASR-generated subtitles vs forced alignment: why script-first captions fail less

A mistake I keep seeing in subtitle tools is simple but expensive: someone already has an approved script, but the workflow still starts by transcribing the audio again. I ran into this while working with scripted voiceovers. The script was already reviewed, but the subtitle tool still wanted to guess the words from audio. That sounds reasonable at first. Most captioning tools are built around speech-to-text. Upload audio, get words, split them into captions, export an SRT or VTT file. But sc...