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AI Podcast Transcript Converter

Upload an episode and the talk returns as text, both hosts labelled, with the passages worth clipping kept easy to find in a long episode.

  • Both hosts labelled throughout the hour
  • Guest names corrected once
  • Quotes for show notes
  • A written version for every listener
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What a Podcast Transcript Is For

An hour of talk that nobody wants to transcribe by hand.

A podcast is the least structured thing anyone records. Two people talk for an hour, interrupt each other, follow three tangents and reach a point eventually. The value is real, but it is buried in a format that cannot be skimmed, searched or quoted from. A podcast transcript is what makes an episode usable after the fact. The audio is read from the file or the episode link as it stands, and both speakers come out labelled.

What the Podcast Transcript Converter Keeps

Six things that make an episode quotable.

Start from the episode

Hand over the audio file or the address of a published episode, and nothing has to be played back.

Keep the hosts apart

Two voices in one conversation are separated and labelled, so an exchange still reads as an exchange.

Flag the passages worth clipping

Every segment keeps its position in the episode, so a good thirty seconds can be found in the podcast transcript without hunting.

Correct a guest name once

A name that arrives as a sound can be repaired in the podcast transcript, and the repair holds everywhere it appears.

Search an hour for one exchange

A phrase remembered from the middle of an episode can be located in seconds rather than by listening.

Return text or a timed file

Take plain prose for show notes, or a caption file for the audio itself.

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A podcast is a conversation, so nothing is planned

Nobody hands out an agenda before a podcast. Two people start talking, one interrupts the other to disagree, and a question asked at minute ten is answered at minute forty after a long detour through something else entirely. A podcast transcript is the only version of that hour that can be navigated. Nothing in the audio helps you skip to the part you want.
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Some listeners cannot use audio at all

A transcript is not a convenience for people who prefer reading. For anyone who is deaf or hard of hearing, it is the difference between having an episode and not having one. Search engines, people in noisy places and listeners working in a second language all benefit from the same podcast transcript. That is the whole argument, and it needs no embellishment.
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An episode made readable
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Show notes should quote, not paraphrase

Most show notes are a paragraph written from memory that tells a listener the episode was interesting without saying what was in it. A quotation taken from the transcript does the opposite job: it shows a prospective listener exactly what they would be getting, in the voice of the person who said it. A podcast transcript is the best possible description, since the words came from the speaker.
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Chapter marks are guesses made from sound

Automatic chapters place a break where the audio changed, which is not always where the subject changed. A conversation can move to a new topic mid-sentence and return to the old one twice. Working from text lets the chapters describe what was actually being discussed rather than where the levels shifted. A podcast transcript does not have to guess.
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Topic breaks marked by hand
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Guest names arrive as sounds, not spellings

Introductions happen fast and nobody spells their own name out. Written down, a name can be fixed once and the fix holds, which matters when the same guest appears in a series and the misspelling would otherwise be repeated in every episode. A podcast transcript makes that a one-time correction.
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A guest name spelled correctly
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The advertising is inside the recording

A host-read advert sits in the middle of the episode and in the middle of any transcript made from it, which surprises people who expected only the conversation. It is easier to remove knowingly than to have a tool quietly decide which parts of an episode were content and which parts were paid for. A podcast transcript shows the advert for what it is.
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An advert inside the episode

How to Get a Podcast Transcript

Three steps, taken once the episode is already published.

Step 1

Hand over the episode

Upload the audio file, or paste the address of the episode as it was published online.

Step 2

Let the conversation be written

The talk is written down in order, with the hosts kept separately, so a podcast transcript keeps the back and forth intact.

Step 3

Use the words

Lift a quotation into the show notes, search for a passage, or publish the text for listeners who cannot use the audio.

Who Asks for a Podcast Transcript

Four roles that need the episode in writing.

MO

Miriam Osei

Podcast Producer

Show notes are written an hour before publication and it shows. Working from a podcast transcript means the description quotes the episode itself.

EL

Erik Lindholm

Accessibility Lead

Publishing the text alongside the audio is the single change that opens a catalogue to deaf listeners. It also turns up in search, which no audio file ever did.

PR

Priyanka Rao

Transcript Editor

Guests say their names quickly and rarely spell them. Fixing a spelling once in the text is a minute of work; fixing it in every episode description is a chore.

CF

Callum Fraser

Show Host

I have been quoted in three articles from one episode, and all three came from someone reading the podcast transcript rather than listening through.

Questions About Podcast Transcripts

What comes back, what stays in and who it is for.

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Hand over an episode and the words come back, both voices labelled and the quotable parts easy to find.

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An Hour, Made Readable

Conversation is a poor format for finding anything again. Written out, the episode can be searched, quoted and read by people who never had the audio.