What is podcast and What is podcast transcription?

What is a podcast? Do you have this question in your mind? Simply put: Podcast is an audio program, just like Radio Talks, but you have to subscribe to it on your smartphone and listen to it whenever you like.

Who invented podcast or who started it?

Adam Curry and Dave Winer are credited with the invention of podcasting. Who exactly did what is up for dispute, but in the end these are the two guys who got it rolling.

There are now an estimated 660,000 podcasts in production and this number is increasing on a daily basis.

Some of the benefits of Podcast are but not limited to:

1. Podcast makes information personal because content is communicated directly with the listener.
2. Podcasts easy to consume because if you transcribe to a podcast it gets automatically downloaded to your computer or phone.
3. Podcasts are portable because you can take your mobile phone and laptops to anywhere.
4. Podcast has variety of information available on your finger-tips.
5. Podcasts cut costs because podcasts are delivered digitally.
6. Podcast helps businesses increase their Traffic because podcasts can help businesses reach out to new audiences for your business. Podcasts can help in building familiarity with a wide range of audiences. Listeners usually subscribe to the series and regularly listen. As long as the audio series continues, your audience is quite likely to keep listening.

Now, What is podcast transcription:

A podcast transcript is a word-for-word written account of your audio/video episodes. You or automated software simply listen to your episode and write down each word spoken in the podcast.

Transcribing your podcasts has several amazing benefits. I’m listing two of the major ones here:

SEO Optimization – Google cannot watch a video or listen to audio. When a video/audio is transcribed or captioned, Google bots read the transcriptions and know precisely what the video’s content is. That creates a massive SEO boost for your website and ultimately makes it easier for new (even existing) listeners to find your content. – 5% of people worldwide [that’s almost 400 million people] struggle with some sort of hearing impairment. An audio transcription gives deaf/hard of hearing people the perfect medium to enjoy your amazing content.

Your Podcast Gets The Credit It Deserves With Transcription - Providing a transcription of podcast episodes will help the listeners cite you as an original source, and it also prevents misquotes by helping them to recall exactly what you had said in a particular episode.

Improves User Experience - Transcript makes your content available to your audience because sometimes when listening to the episode they might not be able to listen some of the words due to technical glitches. It also helps cater to the different preferences people have in terms of content consumption.

Transcribing podcasts is time-consuming – particularly if your podcasts are over 30-minutes long.

The best thing to do is hire a transcription company with specialists in podcast transcription. Voxtab is one such transcription services company.

Thank you for Reading!

I am Robert Smith from New Jersey and I work with Voxtab.