The efficient way to do this is to break the audio up into phrases and make each phrase a separate comp. Trying to put a couple of hundred lines of text in a five-minute video can get extremely complicated, very difficult to edit, and almost always ends up being a huge time waster.
I usually start with Adobe Illustrator and design the text that will accompany each phrase there. All elements that I'm going to animate are on a separate layer and they are in their "here" position. That's the position where they come to rest. You can set up an individual artboard for each phrase or sentence, then when you save the AI file you check the option to save each artboard as a separate file.
The AI files are imported as compositions, the appropriate audio clips are added to each comp, the text is already in the hero position so you animate forward and backward. When the comp for each phrase or sentence is complete you send it off to render to a production format, then you edit the final video using an NLE like Premiere Pro.
That's an efficient way to do it. It sounds like more work than just starting at the beginning and putting everything in one composition, but it is actually a lot faster way to work and it gives you the opportunity to do more precise work and tell a better story.
If you are unfamiliar with After Effects animation tools you are going to have to spend some serious time figuring out the basics of animation, the user interface, and probably shape layer and text animators. An experienced After Effects artist can turn out some pretty good work at the rate of about 10 or 15 seconds of copy per hour. A beginner can easily spend 8 to 10 hours on a single sentence. There is no plug-in or script that will automate this process, but if you are up to learning expressions and saving animation presets you can build a library of movements that will greatly speed up your work.
When you start poking around the internet looking for tutorials make sure that your trainers know what they are talking about. There are more lousy tutorials on YouTube presented by amateurs that promote poor techniques or explain things so badly that they just confuse you than there are good ones that teach efficient workflows and decent animation techniques.
Let us know exactly what you are having problems with and we can probably help. In the meantime, if you are serious about learning how to create interesting animations start with a little homework. Anyone doing this kind of work should have this book in their library: The Illusion of Life: Disney Animation. It won't help you learn how to use After Effects, but if you don't learn the principals in that book you'll waste a ton of time trying to tell a story with moving pictures.
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