1. In a computer-based system, a method of editing a time-based media program that includes recorded speech, the method comprising: receiving an augmented transcript of the recorded speech in a mark-up language format, wherein the augmented transcript includes text of a transcript of the recorded speech and timing information that, for each of a plurality of words of the text within the transcript, associates that text word with a temporal location of recorded speech within the time-based media program that corresponds to that text word; in a user interface displaying a transcript text view of the augmented transcript, editing the transcript text of the augmented transcript, wherein the editing comprises reordering the transcript text by moving a selected span of the transcript text from a first position within the transcript text to a second position within the transcript text, wherein the association of the tinting information with each of the plurality of words within the transcript is preserved during the editing, and wherein the editing of the augmented transcript does not involve playback of the time-based media; and outputting the edited augmented transcript, wherein the edited augmented transcript, when received and processed by a time-based media editing system, is capable of causing the time-based media editing system to generate an edited version of the time-based media program that includes time-based media in a reordered temporal sequence that corresponds to the reordered transcript text of the edited augmented transcript.
1. In a computer-based system, a method of editing a time-based media program that includes recorded speech, the method comprising: receiving an augmented transcript of the recorded speech in a mark-up language format, wherein the augmented transcript includes text of a transcript of the recorded speech and timing information that, for each of a plurality of words of the text within the transcript, associates that text word with a temporal location of recorded speech within the time-based media program that corresponds to that text word; in a user interface displaying a transcript text view of the augmented transcript, editing the transcript text of the augmented transcript, wherein the editing comprises reordering the transcript text by moving a selected span of the transcript text from a first position within the transcript text to a second position within the transcript text, wherein the association of the tinting information with each of the plurality of words within the transcript is preserved during the editing, and wherein the editing of the augmented transcript does not involve playback of the time-based media; and outputting the edited augmented transcript, wherein the edited augmented transcript, when received and processed by a time-based media editing system, is capable of causing the time-based media editing system to generate an edited version of the time-based media program that includes time-based media in a reordered temporal sequence that corresponds to the reordered transcript text of the edited augmented transcript. 6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the time-based media program is not accessible by the computer-based system during the editing step.