Show HN: PodText.ai – Search anything said on a podcast, highlight text to play • Hacker News Board

Re: Show HN: PodText.ai – Search anything said on a podcast, highlight text to play

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Post by anonbuilder » Thu, Feb 09, 2023, 9:29 PM UTC

Oras wrote: post #13

This is great, I was working on something similar in the last few days, but since it is hard to cover every podcast, I stopped to think of a way to niche down. I feel your pain with GPU and scalability to transcript podcasts. I was thinking of adding something like this for the UI https://github.com/johan-akerman/SpotifyTranscripts in case you find it useful. Good luck! It is a really nice project.

Thanks! I'll check out their UI, mine definitely needs a lot of work :)

Re: Show HN: PodText.ai – Search anything said on a podcast, highlight text to play

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Post by skykooler » Thu, Feb 09, 2023, 9:39 PM UTC

This is neat, but would it be possible to search for a multi-word phrase? If I search for a sequence of words I just get results that match one or more of the words but not the phrase itself.

Re: Show HN: PodText.ai – Search anything said on a podcast, highlight text to play

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Post by sva_ » Thu, Feb 09, 2023, 10:16 PM UTC

I thought about making something like this, but one important part - which seems to be missing here - is speaker diarization (identify who says what.)

In a world of increasing automated content generation, the "who" might become just as important as the "what" of information.

Re: Show HN: PodText.ai – Search anything said on a podcast, highlight text to play

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Post by kevmo314 » Thu, Feb 09, 2023, 10:21 PM UTC

Very neat! Is it possible to browse by topic instead of by podcast? You mentioned 25k podcast episodes but right now I can only browse ~100 of them or so unless I come up with some keywords.

Re: Show HN: PodText.ai – Search anything said on a podcast, highlight text to play

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Post by who-shot-jr » Thu, Feb 09, 2023, 10:30 PM UTC

Hello, this looks fantastic, I was looking for something like this a while ago.

Re: Show HN: PodText.ai – Search anything said on a podcast, highlight text to play

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Post by SCUSKU » Thu, Feb 09, 2023, 10:38 PM UTC

Here's my crack at a podcast transcription website: https://podscription.app

I made this while unemployed and the skills I learned from making it helped me land my new job!

Re: Show HN: PodText.ai – Search anything said on a podcast, highlight text to play

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Post by nshm » Thu, Feb 09, 2023, 10:46 PM UTC

https://podscript.ai/ too!

Re: Show HN: PodText.ai – Search anything said on a podcast, highlight text to play

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Post by mosselman » Thu, Feb 09, 2023, 10:47 PM UTC

How can I search for a full name or phrase? Something like "Steve Jobs"? Now I would get Steve and Jobs results.

Re: Show HN: PodText.ai – Search anything said on a podcast, highlight text to play

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Post by nshm » Thu, Feb 09, 2023, 10:58 PM UTC

anonbuilder wrote: post #17

BonoboIO wrote: post #11

What software do you use to transcribe the speech? Whisper?

Yes, using Whisper running on banana.dev :)

Do I understand correctly banana pricing is that it costs $1.87 per hour, so the hour of audio with large model costs you about $1? Thats probably a bit too expensive compared to cloud providers.

Re: Show HN: PodText.ai – Search anything said on a podcast, highlight text to play

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Post by carlosjobim » Thu, Feb 09, 2023, 11:01 PM UTC

Cool idea and I wish you the best. But talking about monetizing might be too early at this point. After a couple of tests it seems like it is completely unusable:

- It can't search non-english words - It will change your the spelling of any word to show completely irrelevant results