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.
@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 🎧
@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 👍