I previously wrote about the new feature in Apple Podcasts that auto-generates transcripts, with mixed feelings about it. A great improvement, and a step forward for accessability, obviously, but the accuracy and layout of it weren’t exactly what I would have gone for. I said at the time:

As a creator, that’s all you actually have to do, read it and check it. You can opt out and provide your own transcripts if preferred, but this would at least be a great starting place to save some time. It’s not perfect, as you’d imagine, being a first release and relying on computer-generated text-to-speech that is so much better than it used to be but still has room for improvement. Because it is just transcribing the words, there is no differentiation between speakers, whereas I used to create my transcripts more like a script.

And I shared this screenshot of a manual transcript created for the episode.

Well, a recent look at the Podcasts app and it looks like Sidepodcast has had the auto-transcript treatment. In fact, the above episode has a transcript and it’s a) very exciting to see, b) better than I thought, but c) not perfect.

Love that famous driver, Terry Bottas.