Casey Liss

But if you want to supply your own, we will obey this tag.

If you use this tag in your feed, the podcast transcript tag, we will show that I think instead, I think not in addition to, but I haven't actually tested it.

And the reason I haven't actually tested it is that very, very few podcasts so far actually do this.

Not none, but not a lot.

So I didn't feel that it was necessary for my first beta release.

I am in the process of building in the architecture to support that.

So I do plan to show transcripts from people's podcast transcript tags from SRT and WebVTT files if they are present.

I haven't quite decided though.

So one of the problems is

If you include your own transcript, first of all, you then cannot use dynamic ad insertion because your timestamps will be all messed up.

And there is not a well-supported standard to embed a transcript in a file that any podcast app would include.

Now, there actually is an old MP3 ID3 tag, I think USLT off the top of my head.

But there actually is... Or no, that's unsynced.

I think SLT, whatever it is.

One of those tags is...

an ID3 tag to specify time-synced captions to be displayed.

So that feature exists in the MP3 ID3 spec, but I don't know of anything that uses it.

So if you were to support podcaster-supplied transcripts with dynamic ad insertion, something like that that comes with the file and therefore can be adjusted with the file whenever they insert and remove ads...

That would be the only way to really do that.

But given that these platforms don't even – like the DAI platforms don't even support chapters, which work the same way, I'm not holding my breath on that.