The final trim pass changes the artifact after validation, so I would validate the returned script again. A sentence cut to meet the word budget can lose a negation, a required transition, or the referent needed by the next scene while still having the right JSON shape.
For pacing, word count is a useful early budget, but the selected voice’s synthesized duration is the closer test. Numbers, abbreviations and punctuation can make equal word counts speak differently. A short pilot render could catch those cases before the episode enters the unattended production stages.
Ahmet Özel
AI Engineer. Computer Vision, RAG and LLM agents.
The final trim pass changes the artifact after validation, so I would validate the returned script again. A sentence cut to meet the word budget can lose a negation, a required transition, or the referent needed by the next scene while still having the right JSON shape.
For pacing, word count is a useful early budget, but the selected voice’s synthesized duration is the closer test. Numbers, abbreviations and punctuation can make equal word counts speak differently. A short pilot render could catch those cases before the episode enters the unattended production stages.