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

#51
If anyone is interested, there's a podcast app called Snipd that integrates transcription. They also use AI to create chapters and snippets. It then creates a feed of snippets, like Instagram reels. Pretty neat.

(Not my app; just a happy user.)

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

#52
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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.

> 1 hour of audio processing with Whisper on Banana costs From their page on Whisper: https://www.banana.dev/deploy-whisper

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

#53
Really interesting service; well done! Looking forward to seeing how it will evolve.

Quick feedback: it seems you're using fuzzy search, which may or may not be what the user expects. For example, searching for "FPGA" also matches "figa", "fuga", "Fagan", "FPNA", "PGA" (tour), and a bunch of other irrelevant terms. Using quotes to indicate I'm looking for an exact match didn't help.

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

#54
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also adding https://steno.ai to the list

Wow, how'd you manage to get interviews split into different speakers?

(not the creator, but I've built something similar for personal use)

This is a great library for determining which speaker is speaking during each time in an audio file (this is called speaker diarization); I imagine they used it or something like it. Works really well out of the box!

https://github.com/pyannote/pyannote-audio

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

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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.

Whisper can be run on CPUs and produce high-quality transcripts. Doing it on CPU is like a 10th the price and more horizontally scalable.

This is using CPUs: https://modal-labs--whisper-pod-transcriber-fastapi-app.moda....

Transcribes a 1hr podcast in 1min for ~3-5cents.

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

#57
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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!

Any chance you'd be open to sharing source? Also, curious if you used any tuning on Whisper to get transcription more accurate?

This demo is open-source: https://github.com/modal-labs/modal-examples/tree/main/06_gp....

https://modal-labs--whisper-pod-transcriber-fastapi-app.moda...

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

#58

Seems 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.

Stop baiting partisan bickering

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

#59
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This 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

They could and probably should offer semantic search, which would be far more powerful than searching exact match keywords.

If you could identify podcasts that often talk about a domain more broadly, you'll have a higher hit rate and overall a better audience fit.

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

#60
wow, I had the same idea as my next home project. I put off working on it for too long. And this looks exactly as what I was hoping to achieve. Guess I have to find another idea. As mentioned in the comments there are so many great services in this space.

I had this problem of vaguely remembering something on the podcast that I listen to, and I wanted to find it by keywords. Using podtext.ai I was able to do it. So I consider it solved

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