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

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Post by mike_d »

paulryanrogers wrote: post #55

Do you get permission from podcast creators? Because these transcripts are probably derivative works.

It hasn't been litigated yet, but the closest analog is closed captioning. You can legally create closed captions for someone elses work, and you then own the copyright.

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

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Post by jonmc12 »

culi wrote: post #49

Surprised to see how many other small projects doing this same thing there are. Kinda seems like a solved problem with ListenNotes. Not affiliated, but I use the service a lot and they have a lot more features than just transcripts including publicly accessible APIs (some of which could probably be utilized by some of the projects posted here)

I'd echo this. ListenNotes API is great and I thought podcast search was already solved for devs.

I've always enjoyed this question on their FAQ that gives some tips for potential competitors - https://www.listennotes.com/api/faq/#faq2

> There are at least 3,035,027 podcasts and 156,316,374 episodes on the Internet...

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

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Post by jcutrell »

llambda wrote: post #59
lappa wrote: post #2

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.

I’ve been creating a semantic search using embeddings tonight against my own podcast transcripts. I’d be happy to have my own content surfacing mechanism like this!

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

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Post by culi »

jonmc12 wrote: post #65
culi wrote: post #49

Surprised to see how many other small projects doing this same thing there are. Kinda seems like a solved problem with ListenNotes. Not affiliated, but I use the service a lot and they have a lot more features than just transcripts including publicly accessible APIs (some of which could probably be utilized by some of the projects posted here)

I'd echo this. ListenNotes API is great and I thought podcast search was already solved for devs. I've always enjoyed this question on their FAQ that gives some tips for potential competitors - https://www.listennotes.com/api/faq/#faq2 > There are at least 3,035,027 podcasts and 156,316,374 episodes on the Internet...

In addition, it's free for users and the API's free plan is sufficient for most personal uses. Hard to see how any of these newcomers could compete unless they had funding behind them

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

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Post by ramraj07 »

mike_d wrote: post #63

Amazing. I was literally just building the same thing. I have a little over 50k podcast episodes with karaoke style word by word transcription. On to the next project I guess.

Tbh this is like the single most common idea every tech guy gets when they’re frustrated with the problem. Many like me move on when we realize how niche and potentially small a TAM it could be (of course any idea can generalize in creative ways). So no harm as long as it was fun. Also many options can co-exist!
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