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Show HN: Podsee – AI tool for podcast listeners

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Post by gonglexin »

Hi everyone, I just launched Podsee(https://pods.ee) for podcast listeners, lovers. You can search and listen to podcasts at Podsee. What makes it different is that you can get the AI transcript for an episode.

It started as a side project after I resigned my job one year ago. As a programmer, I love Elixir (http://elixir-lang.org/) and Phoenix LiveView(https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix_live_view), and want to make a product with it. So I build Podsee.

I'm planning to add more AI features to it, like summarize the episode audio, episode to comics, etc.

I'd love to invite you all to try out the product and would appreciate hearing your feedback! Thanks!

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Post by bayshark »

Congrats on launch! I like how simple the layout is and you can get right to value. Any difference between an AI transcript and a transcript provided by the show itself or something like PodScripts? Also, I see the red icon next to pod eps does that indicate an AI transcript was created for this ep and not others?

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Post by gonglexin »

bayshark wrote: post #2

Congrats on launch! I like how simple the layout is and you can get right to value. Any difference between an AI transcript and a transcript provided by the show itself or something like PodScripts? Also, I see the red icon next to pod eps does that indicate an AI transcript was created for this ep and not others?

Sorry, I know nothing about PodScripts. For the AI transcript, we do a speech recognition and turn the whole audio to the text. AFAIK, podcast owner often provide show notes, not the whole text version for their show.

And your are right, the red icon indicate that the episode has already been transcribed by AI, you can see the text version of it.

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Post by atmosx »

Congratulations on the launch. I like the general look and feel. Is your system to perform transcript and digitisation in languages other than English?

I have a Greek podcast that I'd like to generate transcripts. I tried google but results were bellow average. Whisper is awesome in performing the transcript but lacks digitisation - should be _easy_ because in my case it's just two speakers.

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Post by gonglexin »

atmosx wrote: post #4

Congratulations on the launch. I like the general look and feel. Is your system to perform transcript and digitisation in languages other than English? I have a Greek podcast that I'd like to generate transcripts. I tried google but results were bellow average. Whisper is awesome in performing the transcript but lacks digitisation - should be _easy_ because in my case it's just two speakers.

I'm currently focus on English, but would love to support other languages in the near future. May I have the link of that Greek podcast, I can have a look at it.

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Post by atmosx »

gonglexin wrote: post #5
atmosx wrote: post #4

Congratulations on the launch. I like the general look and feel. Is your system to perform transcript and digitisation in languages other than English? I have a Greek podcast that I'd like to generate transcripts. I tried google but results were bellow average. Whisper is awesome in performing the transcript but lacks digitisation - should be _easy_ because in my case it's just two speakers.

I'm currently focus on English, but would love to support other languages in the near future. May I have the link of that Greek podcast, I can have a look at it.

Here is the link: https://timis-eneken.github.io/

I uploaded just a few episodes, there are many more from years past and the show is still ongoing. I stopped uploading episodes to solve the transcription problem programmatically but got stuck then "life" happened. I'd gladly pay for a service that can do that reliably for me though.

ps. In case you hit new ground, please drop an email :-)

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Post by CygnusX-1 »

Congrats on shipping! I like the uncluttered format.

When there are no search results (e.g. "finance"), the result is a blank screen instead of something like "no podcasts found, try another search". The other thing is, search seems to be based on the podcast title/description instead of individual podcasts.

I'm new to podcasts, so pardon this question - is it possible to use the "scroll bar" to fast-forward? I use this quite a bit on Youtube. Also, is it possible to change the playback speed?

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Post by gonglexin »

atmosx wrote: post #6
gonglexin wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm currently focus on English, but would love to support other languages in the near future. May I have the link of that Greek podcast, I can have a look at it.

Here is the link: https://timis-eneken.github.io/ I uploaded just a few episodes, there are many more from years past and the show is still ongoing. I stopped uploading episodes to solve the transcription problem programmatically but got stuck then "life" happened. I'd gladly pay for a service that can do that reliably for me though. ps. In case you hit new ground, please drop an email :-)

Hi atmosx, just send an email to you.

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Post by gonglexin »

CygnusX-1 wrote: post #7

Congrats on shipping! I like the uncluttered format. When there are no search results (e.g. "finance"), the result is a blank screen instead of something like "no podcasts found, try another search". The other thing is, search seems to be based on the podcast title/description instead of individual podcasts. I'm new to podcasts, so pardon this question - is it possible to use the "scroll bar" to fast-forward? I use t…

Thanks for your valuable feedback! I'm going to fix it.
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