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Apple has rolled out iOS 17.4 to iPhones, including the iPhone 15 lineup, and this one has some nice new features that you should notice — like support for third-party app stores in select regions. There's also new emoji, improvements to Apple Music, and more. Additionally, if you enjoy listening to podcasts in Apple’s Podcasts app, there is now support for transcripts. With these new transcripts, you can read along while listening to your favorite podcasts. But how do you find and enable this feature? We're…

With iOS 17.4, Apple released new emojis as well as a host of major changes to how the App Store works in the European Union. In addition, the company also rolled out a new feature for the Apple Podcasts app: transcripts.As Apple explains, with transcripts, “users can read the full text of an episode, search the episode for a specific word or phrase, and tap on the text to play the podcast from that point in the episode. As an episode plays, each word is highlighted, making it easy to follow along.” Sarah…

Transcripts on Apple Podcasts is the biggest new feature in iOS 17.4 for users outside of the European Union. It’s a new way to experience podcasts that could make a lot of consumers turn away from services like Spotify or apps like Overcast and back to the first-party application.Transcripts allow you to read a podcast as it happens. Think of it as the lyrics feature in Apple Music, specifically for your favorite shows. It’s not only a fantastic accessibility feature, it’s one of the best new additions to a podcast app…

After a month of beta testing, Apple has finally released its iOS 17.4 and iPadOS 17.4 update bringing in tons of features like new emojis, support for third-party app store support and the…

Jason Hiner/ZDNETApple has kicked off the latest update for the iPhone with the release of iOS 17.4. Now available for all iPhone users, the new version comes with a smattering of new features, enhancements, and the usual bug fixes. But most significant are the changes imposed on Apple by the European Union.With the European Union's Digital Markets Act (DMA) going into effect on March 6, Apple has officially opened the door with iOS (and iPadOS) 17.4 to alternative app stores. That means users in the EU will be able…

iOS 17.4 is now available, and the latest iPhone software brings some incredible improvements to the Podcasts app. For Podcast listeners, you can read your favorite shows as you listen with a full-text display for each episode, "making podcasts more accessible and immersive than ever before."The new innovative feature makes Podcasts more accessible than ever before while also giving users a new way to experience their favorite podcasts. Transcripts allow users to read the full text of an episode, search the episode for a…

Apple's iOS 17.4 iPhone software update has been in beta testing for weeks, but it's finally now available for download by everyone. And while there are new features and changes for all, those in the European Union will notice more than most.The iOS 17.4 software update is available for all the same iPhones that were able to install iOS 17 and subsequent releases, including the latest and greatest iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Pro models. The update is of course free to download and can be found in the Software Update section…

ApplePodcasts are at their peak of popularity, with 504.9 million listeners worldwide, the most listeners since 2019, according to a report. To optimize the podcast listening experience, Apple is now introducing a new feature to Apple Podcasts -- transcriptions. The podcast transcriptions will work very similarly to the lyrics transcriptions in Apple Music, giving users access to complete transcriptions, word highlighting as the podcast plays to make it easy to follow along, and the ability to click on text to start…

Catching up on a new podcast should get easier very soon. Apple has announced that it will automatically transcribe podcasts, which should allow more people to enjoy episodes. Apple Podcast will allow creators to upload their own transcript for display or opt for Apple to create one.There are some caveats to be aware of, though. Apple Podcasts should start creating the transcription when the episode is uploaded. However, it has a "short delay" until it's available, so people eager to play their favorite podcast right away…

Why the existing summarization approach is flawed, and a walkthrough of how to do betterImage from Unsplash.LLMs like GPT-4 have taken the world by storm, and one of the tasks that generative text models are particularly good at is summarization of long texts such as books or podcast transcripts. However, the conventional method of getting LLMs to summarize long texts is actually fundamentally flawed. In this post, I will tell you about the problems with existing summarization methods, and present a better summarization…