Import your podcast’s local episode file into Transcribe Audio to Text and keep the app open while it transcribes. Replay guest names, quotations and speech around music or overlapping voices. Correct the transcript, then export a document for editing or publication. Add speaker labels and any time references in your working copy.
Which episode file should I use?
Use the episode export from your editing workflow. If the transcript will accompany the published episode, choose the final cut, with the same introduction, advert breaks and edits. A transcript from an earlier cut will point to the wrong moments after sections move.
Save the full file on the iPhone and check it plays through. Download it first if it is in cloud storage. Keep that episode file as your reference while reviewing the text.
How do I turn the episode into text?
Have the speech engine ready before importing a long episode. Its first preparation is separate from the time needed to process your recording.
- After selecting an audio or video through Choose a file, choose the spoken language and Fast or High, then start transcription. Keep the app open while it works.
- Keep the app open while it transcribes. The wait varies with the phone, recording length and temperature.
- Open Transcript and check the opening, a middle passage and the ending.
- Tap transcript words to replay passages you need to review closely.
What should I check around music and several voices?
Listen to words spoken over the theme music, fades or sound effects. Quiet speech can be masked, and an advert read can contain names or web addresses that need correcting. Remove text that does not match anything said, rather than assuming every line is useful speech.
Replay interruptions and overlapping conversation carefully. The app does not identify speakers or add their names. Attribute passages yourself when needed, and check the audio before copying a quotation into episode notes. A smooth sentence can still contain a misheard word.
How should I prepare a transcript for publication?
Keep the checked transcript as your reference and prepare the public reading copy separately. Add speaker labels and any time references you need. If you remove hesitations or change phrasing, label it as an edited transcript rather than presenting every sentence as an exact quotation.
Export DOCX to continue editing or TXT and Markdown for a text workflow. PDF gives you a fixed reading copy. Clean read can also rewrite the transcript on a compatible Apple Intelligence device with ready models and supported languages. Check its wording against the source before treating it as a finished draft.
Questions you may have
Can I paste a Spotify link or episode URL?
No. The app imports a local audio or video file, not a streaming link. Use the episode file from your own production workflow.
Will it label the host and each guest?
No. Listen to the voices and add names manually if your transcript needs speaker labels.
Can I use other apps while the episode transcribes?
Keep this app open. iOS limits background work, so switching away or locking the phone can interrupt transcription.
Can I quote the Clean read version in episode notes?
Verify the quotation in Transcript and the audio first. Clean read rewrites the text and may use words the speaker did not say.