My first update with transcripts is now in the App Store!

It's a phased rollout that will auto-update over the next week for everyone, or you can update manually from the App Store app whenever you'd like.

More details: https://www.reddit.com/r/overcast/comments/1sg7epz/version_20264_released_transcripts/

@overcastfm Thanks and congrats for getting this over the finish line.
@overcastfm I still can't get it to work in French, but I'm starting to wonder: Does it detect languages automatically or does it use the language set for the UI in iOS? It would explain why it only works in English for me.
@overcastfm @marcoarment Congratulations. On Device Transcripts work really well and quickly too (and would have been sufficient for me).
@overcastfm Where do I turn it off?
@virek @overcastfm ?? Just don't use it.
@overcastfm awesome; I’ve been so excited for this feature!

@overcastfm Congrats!

Transcription for Portuguese works, but sentence breaks are nonexistant (likely not your fault). It appears to force a break after 60–100 words — is that your doing, or the model’s? If it’s you, a few suggestions:

• The algorithm appears to add breaks immediately after the letter sequence ends, even there’s punctuation afterwards — would be better to break at whitespace instead
• In fact, why not scan for a recent sentence break (period, exclamation or question mark followed by whitespace) rather than breaking mid-sentence? To avoid excessively short lines, it could limit to the second half of the excessively-long line (e.g. most recent 30–50 words)
• The extra effort solution: if you have timings for individual words, find the longest pause after the end of a sentence, and break there (or, if you have voice change information, break when the speaker changes)

@dluz @overcastfm I'm seeing the same thing with the transcripts of French podcasts. It must be the model being better at English and optimised for speed.

Your suggestion of reformatting for sentence breaks and line length would be a good fix to make the transcript easier to scan, but that way not be so simple to fit with the rest of the functionality.

@overcastfm the water closet at Overcast headquarters.
@overcastfm Down the road: "Clip-sharing with captions" I can't wait!
@overcastfm You didn't mention the spiffy new icon option.
@Spaceman_Spiff @overcastfm that’s been an option for a while, but it is indeed a cool icon!
@hchorey @overcastfm Can't believe I missed it.
@overcastfm really cool and works great from my limited use! 👊🏻
@overcastfm Congrats! May your Mac Mini’s not meltdown!
@overcastfm congrats on the release, Marco! Looks great from my initial use 😍
@overcastfm How does it cope when the podcast supplies a .SRT file? I edit my file to correct obvious mistakes and would prefer people to see that version.
@etp @overcastfm seems like Overcast ignores your SRT file for now. #Castamatic and #Metacast use your provided transcripts 🎧
@LonelyBob @overcastfm Thanks for letting me know. Still wondering how this will play out.
@overcastfm Great new feature, thank you very much! Two questions: Is the transcript always generated by default? What about episodes that already come with a finished (and perhaps even edited) transcript?
@overcastfm Wow! By first impression it seems to work really, really well 👍
@overcastfm @marcoarment Seemed to be working great for the first handful of podcasts I listened to, but just ran into one where the transcript seems to be for an ad but the audio is podcast’s intro (latest episode of The Filmcast if it matters/helps)
@overcastfm Quick bug report/clarification: podcasts with chapters don’t show the three little “page” dots , while podcasts without chapters do show the dots. If this is “works as intended” then cool, but I don’t understand it.

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Great! The transcript highlighting and synch with the podcast is smooth and looks perfect to me.

The Apple transcript quality is very good, and its music markers are icing on the cake! 🍰

@overcastfm great work. Just one minute using this and it’s a game changer. Cant wait for generated chapters.

@overcastfm Congrats on the release. The feature is awesome!

Suggestion: add an option to locally re-transcribe episodes (ignoring your datacenter transcription).

Sometimes the transcript is unsynced (usually because a misdetected dynamic ad) and it would be a useful plan B.

@overcastfm transcripts seem to be struggling with the thick British accents in the BBC 13 Minutes podcast https://overcast.fm/+AARkppU67p8