When Apple launched iOS 17.4 on March 5, the replace introduced bug fixes and new options, like new emoji and extra Stolen Gadget Safety choices to iPhones. The replace additionally made Apple Podcasts extra accessible by letting individuals view full transcripts of podcasts within the app.
“Introducing transcripts on Apple Podcasts builds on Apple’s dedication to creating services for everybody,” Sarah Herrlinger, Apple’s senior director of worldwide accessibility coverage and initiatives, mentioned in a information launch. “We’re thrilled to make transcripts broadly obtainable for all, including a further layer of accessibility to the Podcasts expertise.”
This is the place to search out podcast transcripts and what to know concerning the function.
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Discovering a podcast’s transcript
This is methods to allow transcripts to learn alongside whereas your podcast performs in actual time.
1. Open your Podcast app.
2. Begin taking part in a podcast.
3. Faucet the media participant throughout the underside of your display screen.
4. Faucet the image close to the underside left-hand nook of your display screen that appears like a speech bubble with citation marks inside it.
Whereas listening to a podcast, faucet this button to view the transcript and observe alongside in actual time.
Now you may observe together with the transcript because the podcast performs. You can too scroll all through the transcript whereas it performs — however watch out. If you happen to faucet a phrase or phrase when you scroll, your podcast will both fast-forward or rewind to that time. There’s additionally a Search bar on the backside of your display screen, which you’ll faucet and seek for phrases or phrases all through the podcast.
When this function is enabled, it additionally carries over to different podcasts you hearken to. So everytime you open the media participant whereas listening to a podcast sooner or later, you may mechanically view the transcript. To show the transcript off on this view, although, faucet the podcast’s art work within the top-left nook of your display screen and the function might be disabled.
If you wish to learn a transcript like an article and do not need to, or cannot, hearken to the podcast, this is how.
1. Open your Podcast app.
2. Beneath Up Subsequent, faucet the three dots within the nook of a podcast’s title card.
3. Faucet View Transcript.
From right here, you may learn the transcript at your personal pace. If you happen to faucet the magnifying glass within the top-right nook of your display screen, you may as well seek for phrases and phrases from the Podcasts.
How good are Apple Podcast’s transcripts?
Whereas I solely listened to podcasts in English, the transcripts are pretty good. The transcript ignores most cases of a number or visitor stuttering, which is good, and in my expertise, it did not confuse homonyms. The function additionally transcribed English-based accents and dialects nicely.
Some correct nouns is perhaps misspelled in your podcast’s transcript.
Most correct nouns, like names and firms, are capitalized and spelled accurately. There have been cases the place names, like Yvette Pierpaoli, or sicknesses, just like the Bubonic plague, had been misspelled in episodes of Cool Folks Who Did Cool Stuff and Rip-off Goddess, respectively.
The principle concern I’ve with transcripts is there is no indicator of who says what at any time. When one other individual begins speaking, the transcript skips a line, however it would not say who’s talking. If you happen to’re counting on a podcast’s transcript and there are two or extra audio system, it is perhaps troublesome to observe who’s saying what. If three or extra friends are speaking without delay, good luck determining who’s talking in actual time.
The search operate is a pleasant contact. I’ve used the search function a number of instances to search out quotes and guide titles as a substitute of skipping round within the podcast and hoping to listen to them once more.
General, the transcripts are principally spelled accurately and are simple to go looking by way of, however it might be good if there have been one thing to point who’s talking throughout the transcript.
For extra on iOS 17, this is what could possibly be coming in iOS 17.5 and our iOS 17 cheat sheet. You can too take a look at what to learn about Apple’s upcoming shock occasion in Could.