Why are Apple putting metadata topics inside podcast pages? Bumper's Dan Misener tells us what he thinks. Are Satoshis the best way to reward podcasters? Trevor Bell argues there are better ways.
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Is Apple Auto Tracing Podcast Episodes?
Many of the topics that I was seeing didn't appear anywhere in the written metadata that a creator would enter into their podcast hosting platform as they publish their show. My best guess is that Apple is using their speech technologies to auto transcribe or robo transcribe episodes, which is something that we've known they've been doing for a while now. And from those robo transcriptions extracting topics and tagging individual episodes with those topics.
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