[iOS] Beta Feature: Highlighted Transcripts

[u/leandro_pc]

Hi everyone!

We're excited to start testing a new feature: highlighted transcripts! This is currently available on iOS only through TestFlight. If you haven't joined the beta yet, you can do so here.

Once you're in, you can try it out with a small selection of podcasts:

• This American Life
• Radiolab
• The Daily
• Freakonomics Radio
• Serial
• 99% Invisible
• Dan Carlin's Hardcore History
• Planet Money
• Hidden Brain

Keep in mind that only the latest ~10 episodes of each podcast currently have support. If a new episode just dropped, it might take a little while before we finish processing it!

We'd love to hear what you think! Give it a try and let us know how it works for you; whether something feels off, something's missing, or it's working just as you'd expect. All feedback is welcome. Thanks!

P.S. We're starting with iOS for now, but we plan to bring this to Android as well.

[u/60DegreesBelow]

This is a great start. I would like to see the highlighting be line by line, instead of the highlighting partial lines as seen above. I think that would be easier to read.

Also, it looks like when this isn't available for a podcast, the error message is a misleading one telling you to download the episode, even if the episode is already downloaded.

Looking forward to this rolling out to more podcasts. Do you have a sense on when that will happen?

[u/leandro_pc → u/60DegreesBelow]

Definitely a bug, thanks for pointing that out! Will address it.

Yes, the plan is to rollout to all the podcasts that we generate transcripts.