Let's discuss an exciting announcement from Apple Podcasts - the introduction of automatically generated transcripts!
This feature is a lazy girl's dream, given that Apple Podcasts will provide you with AI automatically generated transcripts on your episodes for free.
Not only does this new feature make podcast content more accessible, but it also helps you as a podcaster to effortlessly widen your audience reach.
But what does this mean for those who are already paying for transcriptions? How and where can these transcriptions be downloaded? And how can you leverage this feature for generating show notes? Tune in to get all your questions answered and more! Plus, join me for my take on this new feature, as well as podcasting tips to figure out if this feature will suit your workflow or not.
[00:00:15] Verity Sangan: Before we get started with this episode, I wanted to give a shout out to rain who left me a message on Twitter for one of our previous saying great episode.
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[00:00:30] Verity Sangan: Rain.
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[00:00:33] Verity Sangan: So glad that you consider the content to be useful and that you are enjoying the episode.
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[00:00:53] Verity Sangan: Now what I absolutely love about this is that it is right up a lazy girl's street because it provides it.
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[00:01:12] Verity Sangan: Not only is it lazy, but it's also free and we've got to love that.
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[00:01:33] Verity Sangan: So with transcripts, your audience can read the full text of an episode, search the episode for a specific word or phrase, and tap the text to play from that point in the episode.
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[00:01:47] Verity Sangan: Transcripts can also be accessed from the episode details page.
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[00:01:55] Verity Sangan: Apple automatically generates transcripts after a new episode is published.
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[00:02:06] Verity Sangan: And later in the page it actually says that you could be waiting up to 24 hours for the transcript to go live.
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[00:02:17] Verity Sangan: If portions of your episode change with dynamically inserted audio, Apple podcasts will not generate the segments of the audio that are changed.
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[00:02:31] Verity Sangan: This is currently only going to be available on iOS 17.4 and higher and in the languages of English, French, German and Spanish.
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[00:02:47] Verity Sangan: However, Apple Podcast does say that over time it will be working on creating these transcripts for your back catalog of episodes.
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[00:03:01] Verity Sangan: So I don't know whether or not that's going to be in up to a year.
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[00:03:07] Verity Sangan: But I have to say I do really like this feature.
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[00:03:13] Verity Sangan: If you are somebody in particular who has not started going down the transcript route for your episodes now, if you are already paying a service or already get transcriptions for your episodes, then this is potentially not going to actually affect you at all, or it's going to be a feature that you're probably not going to bother with.
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[00:03:39] Verity Sangan: But if you are somebody who you are not creating transcripts for your episodes, then you don't really need to do anything except for log on to your Apple Connect account, accept the new terms and conditions because your settings will automatically be set, that your episodes will be automatically transcribed by Apple Podcasts once the episode goes live.
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[00:04:15] Verity Sangan: But I think that's really cool that if you just don't have the energy or the want or the will or whatever, it will do it for you.
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[00:04:29] Verity Sangan: I probably will at some point or another run a little bit of an experiment on this.
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[00:04:42] Verity Sangan: You'll know that I use summarize for my transcripts, and personally I have found summarize to produce more accurate transcripts than descript.
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[00:04:56] Verity Sangan: So in all fairness, that could have been overtaken.
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[00:05:02] Verity Sangan: So I will probably run a little experiment at some point just to see what the quality of the transcription is like, just as a bit of a comparison.
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[00:05:17] Verity Sangan: As I said, I pay for summarize.
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[00:05:23] Verity Sangan: The other reason why I'm not going to be too fussed about using this feature as well is because I've got a large amount of my audience that doesn't use Apple podcasts to listen to this podcast.
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[00:05:46] Verity Sangan: But that then means that I've got up to 55% of my listenership who are listening through Spotify primarily is the second biggest.
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[00:06:01] Verity Sangan: So because of that, I am still going to be uploading my transcripts that I generate from summarize to my hosting platform and then they will be going out on the RSS feed with my episodes.
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[00:06:33] Verity Sangan: So then in all fairness, if you wanted to, you could then download that transcription, copy paste it, whatever, go across to your podcast hosting platform and as long as they support having transcripts, you could upload that transcript to your hosting platform and then it will push the transcript out with your episode via the RSS feed.
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[00:07:02] Verity Sangan: And for me, that's a little bit pointless.
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[00:07:08] Verity Sangan: So for me, it doesn't make sense for my workflow to go into Apple Podcasts, get the transcription, download it, go back to my hosting platform where I've already published the episode, replay with the back end of things to put the transcript in and then have the RSS feed to push out again.
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[00:07:30] Verity Sangan: However, if you are somebody who you want to dabble in using transcripts, or maybe you're somebody who the vast majority of your listenership is on Apple Podcasts, or even if you just want to use free transcription service and you're not that bothered about the additional step, then that is really useful to know.
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[00:08:00] Verity Sangan: Like I said, you do have to wait up to 24 hours, the website says, but then you can download the transcription and then put it on your RSS feed.
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[00:08:16] Verity Sangan: Like I said, the only backward bit about that is that you are going to have to do that like a day or two after the episode has actually gone live.
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[00:08:31] Verity Sangan: So on that note, as I said, it's not going to be a feature that I'm using at the moment.
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[00:08:43] Verity Sangan: I am going to put a link to the website, to the official webpage on Apple podcasts down in the show notes for this information.
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[00:09:00] Verity Sangan: And it's really, really easy.
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[00:09:02] Verity Sangan: It was so, so easy.
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[00:09:07] Verity Sangan: And equally, if you just want to explore this new feature of Apple podcasts, of putting transcripts on your Apple podcast episodes, then you can dive into that a little bit more.
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[00:09:22] Verity Sangan: Make sure that you hit those five stars.
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[00:09:26] Verity Sangan: You know I always appreciate it.
