Casey Liss

I think that's very unlikely for any of them to ever do.

So because DAI platforms generally won't or can't do that.

And because almost all podcasts of medium to large size now are monetized with DAI, I can't imagine that podcaster-supplied transcripts are ever going to be that big of a thing.

Now, this could be wrong.

And another thing they could do is they could supply a transcript with timestamps that just don't include any ads.

But then the real-time display of it will break it in the player.

Because if their transcript is just their content and doesn't have any of the ad content in it, which it wouldn't in this context, as soon as you reach a point in the show where they've inserted an ad for, say, two minutes, from that point forward, all of the timestamps in their supplied transcript will be off by two minutes.

And so the utility of that, I think, is always going to be significantly less than one that was dynamically generated in such a way that it can synchronize itself back to the ad inserted version of the podcast that you downloaded.

So in that way, I think my transcripts are probably going to provide more functionality than many supplied transcripts will.

Because basically, yeah, if you supply a transcript and you have dynamic ads inserted, that's not going to play well together.

So even if you supply your own, I haven't fully made this decision yet, but I think even if you supply your own, I think I should probably also offer mine and maybe just have like, you know, like a tab picker at the top of the screen that says, you know, my transcript, their transcript, something like that.

Because I think if I don't do that, people might be disappointed if they are supplied a transcript that it has less functionality than my built-in ones do.

Well, so the transcript tag, the podcast transcript tag, it supports the web VTT and SRT files.

Well, it is usually, but I don't think it needs to be necessarily like there's nothing stopping the authors of those files from having like one line per word and having, you know, having each.

I mean, it would look ridiculous in the file context, but, you know, but I think ultimately, though, you are right, Casey, that like in practice, the way these files are usually authored, the way they are usually used is.

Because they come from the world of subtitles from video content, they're made to be displayed in sentences at a time, like the way closed captions would be displayed on videos.

So it is very unlikely, I think, that almost any producer who makes SRT or VTT files would give world-level timing.

SRT, yeah.

They're very similar formats.

Yeah.