Apple launched its Podcasts transcription feature in March as part of its massive iOS 17.4 update. Here's why Apple took six years to perfect it, and make it a reality. If you're one of the 15% of ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. The transcript feature will expand to more podcasters on the platform and include time-synced text. The ...

There is no shortage of great third-party podcast clients on the App Store, such as Castro, Overcast, and Pocket Casts. But when Apple Podcasts introduced transcripts in iOS 17.4, the app immediately ...

I switch to Apple system apps every summer to test the latest versions of the company’s OSes. I usually return to my favorite third-party apps over time, but Apple Podcasts has been an outlier since ...

It just became a lot easier to read along with a podcast, or pull an interesting quote out of one. The Apple Podcasts app now automatically generates transcripts for series and episodes. Here’s how to ...

Apple Podcasts is hardly the best podcast app for your iPhone, but it is the one that comes preinstalled. For many of us, that means it's the only podcast app we'll ever bother with, which means the ...

Podcasts are at their peak of popularity, with 504.9 million listeners worldwide, the most listeners since 2019, according to a report. To optimize the podcast listening experience, Apple is now ...

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People usually listen to podcasts on one of the big audio streaming platforms. Spotify, iHeartRadio, and Apple Podcasts are all popular spots to house a podcast. But, one place people don’t often ...

When the majority of podcast-listening iPhone owners go to listen to a new episode of their favorite show, they do it via the Apple Podcasts app. So any changes to that app are a huge deal for the ...