Apple Podcasts is hardly one of the best podcast app on your iPhone, nevertheless it is the one which comes preinstalled. For many people, which means it is the one podcast app we’ll ever trouble with, which suggests the extra enhancements Apple makes to Podcasts, the higher. Luckily, the corporate’s newest change, arriving with iOS 17.4, is definitely fairly nice.
With the brand new iOS replace, Apple has added a transcripts characteristic to Podcasts. The outcomes are actually spectacular: Not solely do transcripts help you learn together with any given podcast episode, they appear robotically obtainable on all new podcasts on the app—as long as the podcast is in English, French, Spanish, or German. Meaning, going ahead, Apple will add transcripts to episodes shortly after they drop. For older episodes, the corporate says transcripts will likely be added “over time.” For what it is value, The Day by day has transcripts on its episodes all the way in which again by way of Could 4, 2023, as of this writing.
Anecdotally, I’ve seen transcripts on all the podcasts I’ve checked for the characteristic, from massively fashionable exhibits like The Day by day, to extra area of interest podcasts like Segments. From what I can inform, the transcripts themselves are correct. The one points come up when a number of persons are speaking without delay: The transcript appears to lock onto one voice, and one voice solely, which suggests it’s possible you’ll miss out on some context if you happen to’re counting on the transcript alone.
Learn how to entry transcript in Apple Podcasts
Credit score: Jake Peterson
When you replace your iPhone to iOS 17.4 (obtainable on iPhone XS and newer), you will be greeted by a splash display promoting the launch of transcripts the primary time you open Podcasts. From right here, simply select a podcast and play it. Within the podcast participant, hit the transcript button within the backside left nook and the transcript will fill the display.
Transcripts work in a remarkably related approach as Apple Music’s stay lyrics characteristic. (The buttons are even the identical.) Apple Podcasts will spotlight the phrases within the transcript because the speaker says them, which makes it tremendous straightforward to comply with alongside. The transcript itself is damaged into smaller paragraphs, except the part spoken is simply a sentence or a phrase. You may faucet any of those moments within the transcript to leap to that time within the episode.
Use transcripts to seek for any phrase or phrase in a podcast episode
You may as well search any phrase or phrase within the transcript, simply as you’d a standard textual content file. As you scroll by way of a transcript, hit Search, then kind what you would like to seek out.
If you wish to share a part of the transcript to a different app, you may lengthy press on any part, then select Choose Textual content. This opens up the complete transcript in a special a part of Podcasts, the place you may copy the chosen textual content, or another a part of the transcript. (You may as well entry this web page by tapping the three dots within the prime proper of the participant window and selecting View Transcript. You will discover the search perform right here as effectively.)
