# Changelog of Podcast Transcriber: Podcast & Audio to Text, MP3, SRT, VTT (`prime619/podcast-transcriber`) Actor

- **URL**: https://apify.com/prime619/podcast-transcriber/changelog.md
- **Full Actor documentation**: https://apify.com/prime619/podcast-transcriber.md

## Changelog

### 0.1.19 (2026-10-08)

- New engine "Groq Whisper large-v3-turbo, no API key needed" (`transcriptionProvider: "managed"`): Groq transcription through the developer's Groq account, so you get large-v3 quality without signing up anywhere. Billed per started audio minute with the new event "Audio minute (Groq, no key needed)".
- "Auto" now picks it when you enter no Groq key of your own. Your own key and the local engine work as before.
- The no-key engine shares one rate limit with all users: the Actor waits up to about two minutes when Groq is busy, then transcribes the rest of the episode with local Whisper (billed as local minutes) and says so in the status message and in `transcriptionEngine`.

### 0.1.15 (2026-10-08)

- Fix: partial downloads (when only the first part of a long MP3 episode is needed) now skip the embedded ID3 tag first. Episodes with several MB of cover art in the tag could fail with "not a readable audio file" or yield less audio than requested.
- Clearer message when a publisher's server refuses access to its RSS feed (HTTP 401/403).

### 0.1.7 (2026-10-07)

- Apple Podcasts show and episode links are accepted: the Actor looks up the public RSS feed and takes the audio from the publisher's feed.

### 0.1 (2026-10-07)

- First version: podcast RSS feeds and direct audio/video URLs, only new episodes per monitor, title and date filters.
- Groq Whisper (your own key) or built-in local Whisper (tiny/base/small), automatic language detection.
- Full text, timestamped segments with word timestamps, TXT/SRT/VTT/JSON files, run summary.
- Pay per started audio minute, cost cap per episode, clean stop at the maximum cost per run.
- Free 63 s public-domain demo for empty input.