Spotify has introduced three new options — buttons with elevated readability options, choices for textual content resizing, and a beta for podcast transcripts. These new options will attain Spotify with an replace that may start rolling out within the coming weeks for its Android and iOS apps. The transcripts characteristic will at the moment be obtainable for Spotify Original podcasts however is planning to incorporate all podcasts sooner or later. Spotify additionally introduced throughout the Google I/O keynote that it’ll quickly let customers obtain playlists and podcasts on Wear OS units.

Spotify announced the upcoming options by way of a weblog submit. Spotify is bringing the replace to each Android and iOS apps and it is going to be rolled out within the coming weeks. One of essentially the most notable options coming to the music streaming service is the flexibility to auto-generate transcripts for podcasts. However, the characteristic will at the moment characteristic solely Spotify Original and Spotify Exclusive podcasts however different podcasts may also acquire the characteristic someday sooner or later.

The new transcripts characteristic for Spotify will let customers learn particular components of the podcasts with or with out sound. It will enable customers to have the ability to shortly scroll and navigate to a particular a part of the podcast episode. Additionally, customers can click on on a particular paragraph to start out taking part in the podcasts from that time.

Another notable new characteristic is the flexibility to resize textual content for Spotify and elevated readability options. The music streaming platform already displays system-wide textual content modifications to a sure extent utilizing the Dynamic Type textual content. Spotify mentioned within the weblog, “With the latest accessibility updates, we’re enabling users to increase the text even more, improving overall navigation on the app and giving listeners greater control to personalize their experience.”

On iOS, customers can improve textual content measurement by heading to Settings > Accessibility > Display & Text Size > Larger Text. Users can then drag the slider to regulate the textual content measurement they want. However, customers have to be conscious that making the textual content too massive will make it tougher to faucet on buttons or different capabilities on the Spotify app.

Spotify can also be altering the structure of the buttons to make it extra user-friendly for low-vision and visually impaired customers. Spotify is altering the buttons to shuffle a playlist or begin a listening session by way of color, textual content formatting, and measurement. Spotify defined, “Changing the text formatting from all caps creates more space for translation or localization for the more than 60 languages Spotify currently supports.”

Spotify introduced throughout Google I/O Keynote occasion that it is going to be including the flexibility to obtain playlists and podcasts on Wear OS units. This characteristic was earlier obtainable on Samsung Galaxy Watch. Jessika Malmcrona, Product Lead for Car & Wearables, Spotify, mentioned, “We believe that wearables will be more and more important in the future, and we see our investment in Wear as absolutely essential for Spotify.”