Show guide
backspace.fm is a long-running Japanese tech and gadget podcast — a week of technology news, delivered at full native speed. It's real native Japanese; here's how to study it in Wakatta.
About the show
A weekly tech and gadget podcast for Japanese listeners: the hosts run through the week's technology news — Apple, gadgets, software — at fast, natural speed, with plenty of loanwords and industry jargon. It's real native Japanese (around N1), so it's advanced immersion.
How to use it in Wakatta
In Wakatta the show is ready to play, and every episode is a tappable transcript with furigana. Tap any word for its reading and meaning, save the ones worth keeping, and review them later with the exact sentence and audio — so you actually understand what you hear instead of listening past it. (Don’t see a show you love? Search for any podcast in the app.)
What a transcript looks like
今日はお茶を淹れます。
淹れます iremasu · to brew (tea)
Every episode becomes a transcript like this — tap any word for its reading and meaning.
Recent episodes
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- ローカルAIで自分専用エージェント作成！超簡単講座 ep647 · 2026-04-28
- 現地から富永彩乃さんに聞く超偏ったMWC26レポート ep646 · 2026-04-27
Tap an episode to open it in Wakatta and read along with the transcript.
Common questions
What level is backspace.fm?
It's advanced — around N1 — real native Japanese made for Japanese listeners, spoken fast and full of tech jargon. In Wakatta it comes with a synced transcript and furigana, so you can read along and tap anything you miss — which makes native audio far more approachable.
About the creator
backspace.fm is hosted by Drikin, a San Francisco–based software engineer, with editor Kimiya Matsuo and tech journalist Yoshiji Nishikawa — a long-running show covering the week's tech and gadget news.
Read along in Wakatta
Wakatta turns real Japanese podcasts into tappable transcripts — tap any word for its reading and meaning, and review what you save with the original audio.
