Are there some entities that don’t want their Apple Podcasts to be transcribed?

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Are there some entities that don’t want their Apple Podcasts to be transcribed?

A couple of weeks ago, Apple Podcasts was announcing that podcasts transcripts were now available. I checked at the time and it was indeed there for all my podcasts delivered in English. Last week, I realised that transcripts are no longer available for some of the podcast such as bbc global news, bbc Sacked in the morning, OTB, RTE news at one. I upgraded my iOS to 17.5 but to no avail.

Does anybody know what is going on? Have these entities decided they don’t want their podcast to be transcribed? I’m asking because some other English podcast still get the AI generated transcription

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iPhone 14 Pro

Posted on May 17, 2024 3:00 AM

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Jun 4, 2024 12:02 PM in response to andré-philippe

Got the same issue. For the podcasts that I have subscribed, it seems that only those published by BBC don't have transcripts. On my iPhone, the transcript button is grey, and on my Mac, there is no "View Transcript" option when I click on three dots.

By comparison, Economist Podcasts is working out of the box. I can see the live transcript on my iPhone and the whole text transcript on my Mac. Maybe it's the British accent that is not supported 😂

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Are there some entities that don’t want their Apple Podcasts to be transcribed?

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