There are tons of excellent native and language-related podcasts out there, but we can’t import them in LingQ. This is a wasted opportunity.
There are 2 UX cases:
A nice addition would be
We’re actually working on both of these things. Hopefully, within the next few months they will be available.
@mark
The typical podcast will be subscribed to by multiple people. How will the transcription minutes be counted?
I suspect that for rights reasons they basically have to be newly opened and transcribed each time. It the same with the news feed where when you want to add one of the articles, it still has to go to the website and open it for each individual reader.
Yes, that is realistically how it will work. Over time, if we have a better solution, we can look into it. Some podcasts do have transcripts already but if transcribing is required, that will be done for each user.
If you implement it that way, I’m afraid regular podcasts listeners - like me - won’t use it: I have a lifetime subscription for Spanish and I’d already burn my 600 monthly minutes just by listening to 1 - one - morning daily podcast (El País).
My podcast reader client - SnipD - also enforces a minutes quota for transcriptions, BUT it’s only billed to the first user to request the transcription. The subsequent users also don’t have to wait 20 minutes for the audio transcription step, as it’s already been done.
I’ve never had to “pay” nor wait for super popular podcasts episodes, only for niche ones.
I guess they’ve ironed out the legal aspect of sharing internally the transcription files generated by them.
Another scheme would be to charge us 1 minute - f.ex - for any episode, popular or not. That could be a win-win.