Podcasts

Podcasts

Introduction

Pocket has many sources of podcasts for you, including the BBC, Australias ABC, CBC from Canada, NPR from the USA, radio NZ, Ted Talks Audio and RNIB. Each source has many programs, and each program has several episodes.

Finding a podcast

To hear a list of all the available podcast sources you can say, Play me a podcast, or, Listen to podcasts, or, List the podcasts, or, What podcasts do you have?

You can go straight to a podcast source by saying Play me podcasts from NPR, or, Find podcasts from BBC.

Once you have chosen a podcast source, Pocket will list the podcast programs from that source in alphabetical order, giving you five at a time. At the end of a list of five programs say, next to be given the next list of five programs. You can also jump around the list by larger numbers of items by saying, jump forward thirty, or, jump back twelve.

You can also search for topics by saying, find podcasts about black holes or, search for podcasts on South Africa.To search for a particular program say, Play me Friday Night Comedy, or, Play me The Archers. You can restrict your search to a particular source by saying, search for podcasts from BBC about David Cameron, or, play me the science show from ABC.


Selecting a Podcast

When choosing podcasts Pocket will present you with a list in a similar way to newspapers. You can select one by saying, Number 1, or, The last one, or, The third one.

Subscribing to Podcasts

In Your Pocket has a handy feature that allows you to create a list of podcasts by subscribing to them so that you can find your favourite podcasts quickly and easily, without having to repeatedly search for them. To do this, first choose a podcast and then say, subscribe. Your favourite podcasts will then appear on a list called, my podcasts. Just say go to my podcasts to bring up this list.

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