For many years, I moaned and groaned about the lack of easily accessible transcripts in podcasting. Projects like David Smith’s Podcast Search and Descript tempted me to scratch my own itch, but I shelved my idle designs when faced with the economic realities of high-quality transcription. As pieces of

Until now, Steno.fm has had pretty bare-bones controls for navigating podcast playback. To be fair, you don’t really need a "Skip forward 30 seconds" button when you can tap on any word in the transcript to jump exactly where you want. But today, we’re improving

On social media, having an eye-catching cover image is table stakes for getting someone to click on your link. This week, we’re rolling out improved social share cards. Whenever you share a link to a podcast from Steno.fm, we generate a cover image to help you stand out

Steno.fm now supports chapter markers! Now it’s even easier to find your place and jump right to your favorite moment in episodes that support chapters! And we’re not content with only supporting a single format. We’re handling all the major types and also a couple of

When you share a podcast from Steno.fm, we want to make it as easy as possible. So we implemented two key features: linking to timestamps and the Web Share API. Linking to timestamps While listening to an episode on Steno.fm, clicking the Share button will reveal three options.