Apple Podcasts is increasing its transcriptions into eight extra languages, making the textual content of podcasts robotically obtainable to extra worldwide exhibits.
The transcripts characteristic has been a implausible 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 characteristic is rolling out into a lot 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 shall be denoted by a speech bubble on the backside left of the display whereas it’s being performed.
Because the podcast performs, phrases and sections of the transcript shall be highlighted, permitting customers to learn together with the speech. They’ll additionally faucet on a phrase within the transcript to leap to that time within the recording.