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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 Oras »

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.

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

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Post by Oras »

kwerk wrote: post #6
anonbuilder wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks! The search function is built with Algolia, I'm sure they support boolean ops like "AND" but I'll need to dig into their API. I think if you search both terms, transcripts containing both should be ranked higher.

I’m doing a similar personal product. Highly recommend switching to Typesense before your Algolia trial is up. I’ve heard good things about Meilisearch but Typesense has been rock solid for me.

I second that. Typesense is fantastic. I used it for a job board with 3 million and it did great.

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

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Post by anonbuilder »

71a54xd wrote: post #8

Haha I built this for fun a few months ago to full text search my own favorite podcasts. What are you guys using to do full text search / indexing?

Currently I'm using Algolia but others have pointed out some alternatives I'll have to check out. Would love to hear any feedback/ideas you have from your project!

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

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pablomendes wrote: post #9
anonbuilder wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks! The search function is built with Algolia, I'm sure they support boolean ops like "AND" but I'll need to dig into their API. I think if you search both terms, transcripts containing both should be ranked higher.

You might want to try semantic search instead of fiddling with keywords. Disclaimer: I'm building a plug-and-play semantic search API at https://kailualabs.com

I've been thinking about how to improve search, would love to try a demo of your product!

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

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Post by anonbuilder »

jcowdy wrote: post #12

Nice work! It would be great if after clicking on the text within the podcast that matches my term, I was brought to that section of the transcript rather than to the beginning.

That's a great piece of feedback! I'll get this fixed soon, super useful suggestion

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

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Post by anonbuilder »

mbesto wrote: post #15

Super interesting - I did a search on a common business name like "Dropbox" and its clear some ads show up. Wonder if there is any way to parse these out so they don't show in the results?

That's a great point, I'm parsing out ads to determine sponsorships anyway so filtering these from search should be straightforward. Thanks for the feedback :)
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