# Changelog of Podcast Transcript Scraper: Any Podcast to Text & SRT (`fguiraud/podcast-transcript-scraper`) Actor

- **URL**: https://apify.com/fguiraud/podcast-transcript-scraper/changelog.md
- **Full Actor documentation**: https://apify.com/fguiraud/podcast-transcript-scraper.md

## Changelog

User-facing changes. Dates are UTC.

#### 2026-10-04

- AI agents: common field names (`url`, `urls`, `startUrls`, `query`, `keywords`...) are accepted, and an empty input runs a small sample from the input form instead of failing.

#### 2026-10-03

- New: **speaker labels** (`speakerLabels`): each sentence says who speaks (Speaker 1, Speaker 2...) in the text, segments, SRT/VTT, Markdown and chunks; `numSpeakers` if you know how many people talk. $0.003 per minute, off by default.

#### 2026-10-02

- Runs now finish before their timeout instead of being stopped by it: a long file is transcribed up to what the remaining time allows (with a warning), and files that no longer fit are marked `skipped` and not charged.

#### 2026-09-30

- Music or silence that Whisper fills with stock phrases ("you", "thank you") now counts as no speech and is not billed.
- Billed minutes are rounded with a 2-second tolerance: a 60.02-second clip is billed as 1 minute, not 2.
- Fixed: "Only new episodes" could stop the run in accounts that used it before; it now never fails the run.

#### 2026-09-29

- README: measured accuracy (word error rate) and speed of the tiny, base and small models.

#### 2026-09-26

- Fixed: rare runs failed with "Schema validation failed" when a result had empty fields.

#### 2026-09-24

- First public version.