Apple Podcasts is increasing its transcriptions into eight extra languages, making the textual content of podcasts mechanically obtainable to extra worldwide exhibits.
The transcripts function has been a incredible addition to Apple Podcasts since iOS 17.4. Whereas initially solely obtainable for English, French, Spanish, and German exhibits, it is being enabled for much more languages now.
In response to iCulture, the function is rolling out into plenty of languages ranging from Wednesday. The brand new languages are:
- Dutch
- Danish
- Finnish
- Swedish
- Norwegian
- Italian
- Portuguese
- Brazilian Portuguese
The rollout will take a while to use to podcasts in these languages, however new episodes would be the first to get the transcriptions. Transcribed episodes will probably be denoted by a speech bubble on the backside left of the display screen whereas it’s being performed.
Because the podcast performs, phrases and sections of the transcript will probably be highlighted, permitting customers to learn together with the speech. They will additionally faucet on a phrase within the transcript to leap to that time within the recording.