{"id":51332,"date":"2026-03-20T14:16:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T18:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=51332"},"modified":"2026-04-10T15:27:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T19:27:26","slug":"overcast-transcripts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/20\/overcast-transcripts\/","title":{"rendered":"Overcast Transcripts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/overcast\/comments\/1rxf5br\/testflight_build_1151_first_beta_with_transcripts\/\">Marco Arment<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@marcoarment\/116252042922555146\">Mastodon<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/overcast\/comments\/1rxf5br\/testflight_build_1151_first_beta_with_transcripts\/\">\n<p>What&rsquo;s in this beta:<\/p><ul>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Transcripts of most podcasts<\/strong> (swipe on the episode art during playback, it&rsquo;s a new page past the info screen)<\/p>\n<\/li><li>\n<p><strong>Live-scrolling<\/strong> of transcripts during playback<\/p>\n<\/li><li>\n<p><strong>Tap to seek<\/strong> on any line of text<\/p>\n<\/li><li>\n<p><strong>Music detection<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul><p>All of this should work even with dynamic ad insertion&#8230; and <strong>even with private\/membership podcasts!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>And if you play an episode that isn&rsquo;t transcribed yet, you can transcribe it right on your iPhone (if you&rsquo;re running iOS 26+).<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This is really impressive, and I think it will be transformative for podcast listening and triage. There&rsquo;s a long discussion with more technical details in the latest <a href=\"https:\/\/atp.fm\/683\">Accidental Tech Podcast<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ptujec.github.io\/podcast-transcripts-are-table-stakes\/\">Christian Bender<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/ptujec.github.io\/podcast-transcripts-are-table-stakes\/\">\n<p>The way you can follow along as the audio plays, or jump to a place in the episode by tapping a paragraph in the transcript, is just so convenient. It made me seriously consider using Apple Podcasts. And of course, I immediately tested the Overcast implementation.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s the kind of feature that fits how I use podcasts. Like chapters, it supports choice. It lets you cut through the noise and get straight to the topics that interest you.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/18\/official-overcast-reddit\/\">Official Overcast Reddit<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/13\/generated-transcripts-in-pocket-casts\/\">Generated Transcripts in Pocket Casts<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/29\/apple-podcasts-transcripts\/\">Apple Podcasts Transcripts<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p id=\"overcast-transcripts-update-2026-04-10\">Update (<a href=\"#overcast-transcripts-update-2026-04-10\">2026-04-10<\/a>): <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/overcast\/comments\/1sg7epz\/version_20264_released_transcripts\/\">Marco Arment<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@overcastfm\/116371407005870950\">Mastodon<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/overcast\/comments\/1sg7epz\/version_20264_released_transcripts\/\">\n<p>The first update with transcripts is now in the App Store!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.curbcuts.co\/blog\/2026-4-10-hqs7rmsdifg87dy7ff1xjh4kyuidbs\">Steven Aquino<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marco Arment (Mastodon): What&rsquo;s in this beta: Transcripts of most podcasts (swipe on the episode art during playback, it&rsquo;s a new page past the info screen) Live-scrolling of transcripts during playback Tap to seek on any line of text Music detection All of this should work even with dynamic ad insertion&#8230; and even with private\/membership [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2026-03-20T18:16:12Z","apple_news_api_id":"6231f8c8-001a-40cf-bfce-314d9287c060","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2026-04-10T19:27:30Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAg==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AYjH4yAAaQM-_zjFNkofAYA","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,2741,26,557,647,112,787],"class_list":["post-51332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-ios","tag-ios-26","tag-iosapp","tag-macmini","tag-overcast","tag-podcasts","tag-speech-recognition"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51332"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51539,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51332\/revisions\/51539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}