Micro.blog Premium includes podcast hosting. When you upload an MP3, Micro.blog now automatically generates a text transcript using OpenAI. If there are any transcripts, a new Transcripts option in the sidebar will be visible to show and edit your transcripts.
When you create a blog post that links to that MP3 with an audio tag (which Micro.blog on the web will do automatically for you), Micro.blog will associate the transcript with the blog post. By default, it will also include a link to the transcript from the published blog post.
Options to control this feature are available by installing the plug-in “Transcripts”. From the plug-in’s settings, you can disable transcription or disable the blog post transcript link.
With the plug-in installed, a new page at /transcripts/ will be added to your blog. To include a link in your navigation to this page, create a new Page in Micro.blog with the value as the full URL to the transcripts page.
For custom Hugo themes, a new “transcript” file path is added to a blog post’s front matter. You can use this path from a template to add your own link to the podcast transcript.
Limitations
There are a few limitations for transcription:
- Micro.blog podcasts only use MP3 files.
- Audio files must be 15 minutes or less to be transcribed. Longer audio files will be skipped with a message in Account → View logs.
- Only 1 episode can be processed for transcription each day.
Support languages
The following languages are supported for transcripts:
Afrikaans, Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Belarusian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kannada, Kazakh, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malay, Marathi, Maori, Nepali, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese, and Welsh.
