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ABC RN live transcript

Read what's being said on ABC RN as it airs, and search every word the radio station has said since. Play the audio back, quote it with a citation, link to the moment, and get an alert when a name or phrase comes up. Free, from Captionator.tv.

ABC Radio National, the ABC's national ideas, current affairs and culture station: RN Breakfast, Late Night Live, Big Ideas, Saturday Extra and the rest of its talk programmes. It has no closed captions, so its audio is transcribed automatically as it airs with OpenAI's Whisper speech recognition. No person checks the transcript, so expect misheard words and misspelt names, and check anything against the audio before quoting it.

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