Joshua LetoJan 26, 2024
Jason Snell

Just posted on Six Colors: Full, automatic podcast transcripts coming to iOS 17.4

https://sixcolors.com/post/2024/01/full-automatic-podcast-transcripts-coming-to-ios-17-4/

Full, automatic podcast transcripts coming to iOS 17.4

We didn’t upload this. Apple just… did it. Among the changes in iOS 17.4 is one that’ll be an enormous improvement in podcast accessibility: transcripts in the Podcasts app. When …

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Jan 25, 2024 at 9:26pmWeb
Show threadDerek 🌈Jan 25, 2024
@jsnell @leo is going to love this!
Show threadDan MisenerJan 25, 2024
@jsnell This feels like great news. And I’m honestly quite surprised by the support for <podcast:transcript>. Curious for @nathan‘s take!
Show threadNathan GathrightJan 26, 2024
@misener @jsnell huge win for the Podcasting 2.0 project! We’ve solved the chicken/egg problem for transcripts. The other top 10 apps have much more incentive to support the <podcast:transcript> tag, and podcasters that care about listeners in those apps will be incentivized to produce their own.
Show threadAlex PadillaJan 25, 2024
@jsnell How does it know how to spell @imyke’s name?!?
Show threadSouthpawJan 25, 2024
@alexpadilla @jsnell @imyke Perhaps it infers it because he is listed as one of the hosts.
Show threadJason SnellJan 25, 2024
@Southpaw1496 @alexpadilla @imyke I doubt the model works like that, but it's not impossible!
Show threadJason SnellJan 25, 2024
@alexpadilla @imyke I assume we’re training data in the Apple LLM!!!!
Show threadBrianJan 25, 2024
@jsnell Wait, how did the transcript spell @imyke ‘s name correctly?! That’s kinda wild if it just knows (because of tags or something)!