Nice idea but it didn't work for me... you need to look into why "poppadoms or bread" isn't turning up any results.
It's one of the lines in every episode of the Off Menu Podcasts, one of the biggest podcasts in the uk.
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#32Would be nice to have a slider to adjust the timestamp period of time. Timestamps every 3 seconds is distracting to read 4 words per line. Being able to adjust to 10/30/60 second timestamps would be nice to give you a proper paragraph to read (i guess you may not be able to indent cleanly but you get my point)
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#33Super cool. This could help make podcasts much more social. Do you generate the text or use provided transcripts? Are there any legal issues associated with that?
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#34Seems like Chapo Trap House and The Adam Friedland Show are inexplicably unrepresented not only here but on other similar webapps linked elsewhere in this thread... Strange, considering that those are two incredibly popular podcasts, at least by the metric of Patreon revenue.
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#35Please take it as encouragement that this is a real business and not discouragement that it's been done but there are similar products in the market. We use podscribe at my place. It's more about better targeting than discovery because we have an ad sales team but suffice to say there is an established market for this kind of thing.
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#36Seems like Chapo Trap House and The Adam Friedland Show are inexplicably unrepresented not only here but on other similar webapps linked elsewhere in this thread... Strange, considering that those are two incredibly popular podcasts, at least by the metric of Patreon revenue.
People don’t like advertising with Nazis so it wouldn’t make sense to pay to transcribe that.
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#37https://podscript.ai/ too!
also adding https://steno.ai to the list
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#38Hate to be that guy, but is this legal? I would assume to do something like this you would need to have permission from each of the copyright holders.
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#39This is a really interesting project with a lot of potential. If I were a sponsor looking for a podcast I would want my search process to look something like this: - Search for a term relevant to my line of business - See a list of podcasts ordered by % of utterances which contain my key phrase throughout their last N episodes - Annotation of how many listeners each podcast had in last N episodes
Appreciate the feedback! I'll keep these use cases in mind as I build out PodText Business
Building out the search a little more to support exact matches would also be super useful in this flow. For example, I've been on several podcasts talking about Notebook.ai, but searching for the name also matches "notebook", which results in an unusable signal-to-noise ratio (seeing every podcast that says the word "notebook"). Likewise, it'd be great to quote-search exact matches for "Andrew Brown", instead of seeing all podcasts that mention "Andrew" or "brown".
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#40Seems like Chapo Trap House and The Adam Friedland Show are inexplicably unrepresented not only here but on other similar webapps linked elsewhere in this thread... Strange, considering that those are two incredibly popular podcasts, at least by the metric of Patreon revenue.
I couldn't find either of Jim Cornette podcasts, tiger belly, flagrant, brilliant idiots, and Matt and Shane's secret podcast which I think is number 1 on Patreon.
I would assume they started with the podcasts they currently subscribe to, then asked their friends, then started going down one of the charts that rank by downloads.
I never heard of the ones you mentioned, and you may not have heard of the ones I mentioned. There are so many podcasts that there are always going to be missing ones. Not to mention, if the goal is to sell ads, then high Patreon earners would not really be your target.