Pocket Casts looking at supporting transcripts

• Pocket Casts is looking to add transcripts to their popular podcast app, according to Ellie Rubenstein in an interview today in the Podnews Weekly Review. “We’re tailoring the UI and overall experience to make sure that transcripts feel natural and intuitive within Pocket Casts,” she told us. The app is also going to add “podrolls”, showing creator recommendations for other shows to listen to. Transcripts are also supported by Apple Podcasts and 17 others.

• Podcast hosting at micro.blog is now available at the base $5/month plan. The bare-bones service lets you upload an audio file up to 75MB.

• Podcast app Podcast Guru has been updated with three new features. “Smart Playlists” automatically track and update a group of podcasts as new content becomes available. There are also configurable skip buttons in the app settings for personalised control, and (on Android only for now), a new per-podcast silence trimming setting to enhance your listening experience.

• Edison Research, SiriusXM Media and GroupM will release the Sports Audio Report in a webinar on June 13.

• In Australia, LiSTNR has partnered with DataCo Technologies to allow advertisers to integrate their own databases with LiSTNR’s 1.95mn first-party database, while respecting privacy. The country has had a number of well-documented data leaks in the last few years, including a health insurer and a cellular phone company.

• Another daily newsletter? About podcasts? Podcast Discovery's Podcast Rex has launched Election Daily, a daily newsletter showing how all the UK’s news and political podcasts are covering the election each day.

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• It’s easier than ever to get your own, free, transcripts. If you don’t mind getting your hands dirty with the terminal window on Mac OS, then here’s how to install Whisper.cpp, like we use.

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