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Conditions: WebVTT per the W3C Candidate Recommendation Draft of 20 May 2026. Method: one cue block per readable chunk; cue start must be greater than or equal to every earlier cue's start and end must be greater than start; cues may overlap, which suits simultaneous speakers; speaker names go in voice spans (<v Name>), which need no closing tag when they cover the whole cue; word-level timing inside a cue uses cue timestamps, each greater than any previous one in the cue, greater than the cue start and less than the cue end; the spec's own guidance is to write cues on one line except where a break is definitely needed, since user agents insert wrapping breaks. WhisperX's CLI can also write word-highlighted SRT. Failure modes: Inference: word times from an aligner that equal the cue start or end, or that decrease, produce invalid timestamps; clamp to the open interval and drop duplicates; a mislabeled speaker puts the wrong name inside the voice span. Dubbing and lip-sync use: Inference: the same word spans give per-word durations that can be compared with a dub script's syllable timing; this source says nothing about dubbing. Limitations: line-length and reading-speed limits are not in WebVTT (see prior Netflix/BBC/EBU findings). 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