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Ask HN: Can I sample podcasts like trailers or tweets?

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Re: Ask HN: Can I sample podcasts like trailers or tweets?

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Maybe if podcast apps had some kind of user-provided feedback as to which parts were good.. but for the most part podcasts are hands-off fire and forget consumable experiences.

Another alternative would be some kind of excitement recognizer, or monologue recognizer, etc. Get a machine learning model to find the moments that seem like a good back-and-forth or a solid exposition. Pad the recording a minute or two on both ends, etc...

But that raises the issue that in podcasts a lot of the time people build off of parts of the conversation that happened a long time earlier. So, it may be just difficult to sample longer podcasts in general. Perhaps you could try to listen to 5 minute podcasts, or something like that.