Probably the most common third-party podcast apps, Pocket Casts, now helps creator-made transcripts. Should you’re producing your personal transcripts on a supported podcast host, they’ll now robotically seem inside Pocket Casts on each Android and iOS. Transcripts are searchable and present speaker names the place offered.
- Pocket Casts is utilizing the Podcasting 2.0 transcript function, additionally utilized by Apple Podcasts and different apps. Extra particulars in The Tech Stuff, beneath.
Acast has partnered with /influx, a French podcast producer. “Collectively, they’ll maximize the attain and profitability of content material created by /inflow skills, by integrating tailored audio and video options.”
Hear Me Out, a podcast from Slate, publishes its final episode at the moment. Its title, “Podcasting Is Lifeless”, means that “most hosts and producers now are struggling to remain afloat or they’re getting laid off.” The host, Celeste Tedley, is joined by Nick Hilton, who “freelances as somebody who writes about what a horrible state the trade is in.”
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The podcast argues that costly exhibits like Serial are dying, whereas low cost superstar chatcasts usually are not; {that a} small variety of exhibits get disproportionate quantities of cash, and that issues just like the “BBC Sounds” proprietary app or the NYT Audio app try to kill open RSS. You’ll be able to read a transcript here. (Slate, or its host Megaphone, doesn’t comply with the open normal so the transcript isn’t within the podcast feed).
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Station is a new “engagement platform for podcasts”, studies a tech web site.
“Podcasts are a liberating platform for creatives,” say Armchair Expert’s Dax Shepard and Monica Padman. The pair received the “Inventive Impression in Podcasting” Award from Selection.
The upcoming NAB Present in New York may have a bookable podcast studio.
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