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• Apple Podcasts is to add transcriptions for every podcast in the Apple Podcasts app on the next version of iOS and iPadOS, to be made available later in Spring, says the Californian company.
  • In the first major adoption of a Podcasting 2.0 feature by Apple, creators will be able to submit their transcripts via the established podcast:transcript feature, which is already supported by a number of podcast apps and hosts. Apple will also produce transcripts automatically for every episode released on the platform. Transcripts work for shows in English, French, German and Spanish.
  • We’ve spent the last twelve hours working on a full, detailed FAQ for the feature, including a video of it working, and all your questions answered.
• A case brought by the National Association of the Deaf against SiriusXM for a lack of transcripts in its app is scheduled to start in court on Feb 29, and will run into May. The legal action started in December 2021.
• Spotify announced “time-synched transcripts for more podcasts on the platform” at the end of September. While you can opt-in to this process within Spotify for Podcasters (and we have), we can only find it active for a few Gimlet shows. Podcasters can’t edit transcripts or supply their own.

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• Amazon Music announced that it was adding transcripts to its app in November 2021. It was limited at the time to Wondery shows; Amazon told us that podcasters couldn’t edit or supply their own transcripts. We can’t find transcripts for any shows in the Amazon Music app today (we tried a number of Wondery shows and other large shows on the platform).
• The Apple Podcasts Connect terms of service have been updated. There are two new clauses: 8b, which