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Voice Tags in VTT

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It's rather imperative for my usage of the transcripts to include Voice Tags in VTT files, rather than simply adding speaker names as part of the transcript. Voice tags look like this: 
<v Speaker>Dialogue.</v>
This allows podcasting platforms like Podlove to recognize the speakers and format the transcript accordingly.

December 29, 2020

britta

SOLVED temporarily with a python script (not by Descript) - Feb 2025: https://www.bitrat.tech/blog/vtt-autotag-tool/
Background:
Back in August I wrote the below bug report. Pinecast (the podcast distributor)  requires every single 42 character line to be voice tagged for their transcripts and subtitle files, not just the default Descript tagging on speaker change. I am now using a python script I wrote myself, as a workaround now. https://www.bitrat.tech/blog/vtt-autotag-tool/
OLD August 2024 post:
"I also need the <v speakerName> tags for using with Pinecast podcasting platform.
I run a disability podcast, and it is absolutely imperative to have subtitles.
It takes me an hour to manually add those v tags to the insifficiently formatted descript vtt file.
I have to add those v tags to each of the time codes in the file
I have attached the document of the feedback I got from the podcast platform I used"

Transcript voice tags