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Transcript

<podcast:transcript>

This tag is used to link to a transcript or closed captions file. Multiple tags can be present for multiple transcript formats.

Detailed file format information and example files are here.

Parent

<item>

Count

Multiple

Attributes

  • url (required): URL of the podcast transcript.
  • type (required): Mime type of the file such as text/plain, text/html, text/vtt, application/json, application/x-subrip
  • language (optional): The language of the linked transcript. If there is no language attribute given, the linked file is assumed to be the same language that is specified by the RSS <language> element.
  • rel (optional): If the rel=“captions” attribute is present, the linked file is considered to be a closed captions file, regardless of what the mime type is. In that scenario, time codes are assumed to be present in the file in some capacity.

Examples

<podcast:transcript url="https://example.com/episode1/transcript.html" type="text/html" />
<podcast:transcript url="https://example.com/episode1/transcript.vtt" type="text/vtt" />
<podcast:transcript
        url="https://example.com/episode1/transcript.json"
        type="application/json"
        language="es"
        rel="captions"
/>
<podcast:transcript url="https://example.com/episode1/transcript.srt" type="application/x-subrip" rel="captions" />

Podcast apps supporting transcript

25 apps/services:

Publishing/hosting tools supporting transcript

31 apps/services:

Miscellaneous support for transcript

11 apps/services:

TrailerTxt