[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":548},["ShallowReactive",2],{"project-34727695":3},{"id":4,"name":5,"line":6,"line_source":7,"title":8,"url":9,"domain":10,"maker":11,"posted_at":12,"year":13,"points":14,"comments":15,"rank_in_year":16,"shown_in_year":17,"top":18,"tier":19,"category":20,"subcategory":21,"format":22,"keywords":23,"reception":28,"sentiment":29,"stance_mix":30,"scored_comments":35,"aspects":36,"strip":47,"post_text":50,"what":51,"said":94,"maker_in_thread":276,"shape":286,"grid":290,"attempts":511,"same_week":512,"maker_shows":41,"maker_hidden":540,"reader_version":541,"card":542},"34727695","PodText.ai","Search anything said on a podcast, highlight text to play","title","Show HN: PodText.ai – Search anything said on a podcast, highlight text to play","https:\u002F\u002Fpodtext.ai","podtext.ai","anonbuilder",1675963981,2023,219,84,251,3109,9,"notable","ai","podcast transcript search","web_app",[24,25,26,27],"podcast search","podcast transcripts","whisper transcription","podcast sponsorship","curious",0.025,{"positive":31,"neutral":32,"mixed":33,"critical":34},11,24,0,12,47,{"idea":37,"execution":40,"design":42,"pricing":44,"performance":45,"docs":46},{"positive":38,"critical":39},7,4,{"positive":41,"critical":39},1,{"positive":43,"critical":33},2,{"positive":33,"critical":43},{"positive":33,"critical":33},{"positive":33,"critical":41},[48,49,33,49,33,48,49,49,33,41,49,41,41,48,41,41,33,49,49,49,41,41,48,49,33,33,49,49,49,48,33,48,49,49,33,33,41,49,48,41],5,3,"Hi HN, wanted to share a project that I’ve been working on recently.\n\nPodText allows users to find anything said on a podcast. You can also listen and share clips to a specific part of the podcast audio, simply by highlighting the text of that part. Currently there are just over 25k podcast episodes and I’m adding a lot more in the coming weeks (yes my GPU bill is painful).\n\nIn order to monetize it, I’m building a sponsorship database to help sponsors find podcasts and vice versa. This will be sold in the form of a $99\u002Fmonth “PodText Business” subscription. I bet I could charge a lot more to l",{"problem":52,"audience":58,"pricing":66,"motivation":70,"time_to_build":74,"stack":75,"openness":92,"stage":93,"team_size":92},{"value":53,"source":54,"evidence":55},"Finding anything said on a podcast and sharing clips of exact moments","maker",[56],{"id":57},"post",{"value":59,"source":54,"evidence":60},"Podcast listeners and sponsors looking for podcasts to advertise on",[61,62],{"id":57},{"id":63,"by":64,"text":65},"34728267","lappa","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…",{"value":67,"source":54,"evidence":68},"$99\u002Fmonth PodText Business subscription planned for sponsors",[69],{"id":57},{"value":71,"source":54,"evidence":72},"Monetize the transcript search via a sponsorship database",[73],{"id":57},null,[76,82,88],{"value":77,"source":54,"evidence":78},"Whisper (transcription)",[79],{"id":80,"by":11,"text":81},"34731645","Yes, using Whisper running on banana.dev :)",{"value":83,"source":54,"evidence":84},"Algolia (search)",[85],{"id":86,"by":11,"text":87},"34731638","Currently I'm using Algolia but others have pointed out some alternatives I'll have to check out. Would love to hear any feedback\u002Fideas you have from your project!",{"value":89,"source":54,"evidence":90},"banana.dev (GPU hosting)",[91],{"id":80,"by":11,"text":81},"unknown","launched",{"praise":95,"objections":113,"requests":172,"questions":208,"alternatives":233},[96,108],{"value":97,"source":98,"evidence":99},"Search and word highlighting feel fast and useful","commenter",[100,104],{"id":101,"by":102,"text":103},"34735868","marcelfahle","Looks very cool! Besides the search, which works great and feels like a powerful tool, I like how snappy the word highlighting is in the transcripts. Can you elaborate a bit on…",{"id":105,"by":106,"text":107},"34749592","moserch","This is a game-changer for topic research. Thank you! I also agree that this will be a valuable resource for potential business sponsors and worth the money. One note, I like…",{"value":109,"source":98,"evidence":110},"Useful for sponsors and topic research",[111,112],{"id":63,"by":64,"text":65},{"id":105,"by":106,"text":107},[114,133,148,158],{"value":115,"source":98,"evidence":116},"Fuzzy search returns irrelevant matches and misses exact phrases",[117,121,125,129],{"id":118,"by":119,"text":120},"34735157","guiambros","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…",{"id":122,"by":123,"text":124},"34733183","idk1","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…",{"id":126,"by":127,"text":128},"34731922","skykooler","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…",{"id":130,"by":131,"text":132},"34732814","mosselman","How can I search for a full name or phrase? Something like \"Steve Jobs\"? Now I would get Steve and Jobs results.",{"value":134,"source":98,"evidence":135},"Limited podcast coverage; many popular shows missing",[136,140,144],{"id":137,"by":138,"text":139},"34733969","anon25783","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,…",{"id":141,"by":142,"text":143},"34734430","dec0dedab0de","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…",{"id":145,"by":146,"text":147},"34732489","kevmo314","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…",{"value":149,"source":98,"evidence":150},"Copyright concerns over transcripts of podcasts",[151,155],{"id":152,"by":153,"text":154},"34735252","paulryanrogers","Do you get permission from podcast creators? Because these transcripts are probably derivative works.",{"id":156,"by":142,"text":157},"34734247","Hate 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.",{"value":159,"source":98,"evidence":160},"Transcription costs are very high at this scale",[161,165,168],{"id":162,"by":163,"text":164},"34741950","Ferdows-ip","How are you guys affording the transcription bills? 25,000 episodes at 1 hour long, could cost 30,000 USD at a conservative market rate. Are you guys self funded?",{"id":166,"by":163,"text":167},"34741965","The transcription price would be big for 25,000 episodes at 1 hour long. That's like 30,000 USD. How are you guys funding this?",{"id":169,"by":170,"text":171},"34732963","nshm","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…",[173,186,193,200],{"value":174,"source":98,"evidence":175},"Exact phrase and multi-word search",[176,180,181,182],{"id":177,"by":178,"text":179},"34734285","drusepth","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…",{"id":126,"by":127,"text":128},{"id":130,"by":131,"text":132},{"id":183,"by":184,"text":185},"34729685","mritchie712","This is amazing. How do you search for two terms at once? e.g. \"aboriginal\" and \"origin\". Doesn't seem possible to require both terms are present.",{"value":187,"source":98,"evidence":188},"Keyword alerts for terms or speakers",[189],{"id":190,"by":191,"text":192},"34734735","lxm","If you want to grow your audience user-wise, allowing people to add alerts on specific terms would be pretty cool. There's a set of people I always enjoy listening to whenever…",{"value":194,"source":98,"evidence":195},"Speaker diarization",[196],{"id":197,"by":198,"text":199},"34732417","sva_","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…",{"value":201,"source":98,"evidence":202},"Browse by topic and jump to matched position in transcript",[203,204],{"id":145,"by":146,"text":147},{"id":205,"by":206,"text":207},"34731398","jcowdy","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.",[209,221,228],{"value":210,"source":98,"evidence":211},"How is transcription being funded and what models are used",[212,213,217],{"id":162,"by":163,"text":164},{"id":214,"by":215,"text":216},"34731396","BonoboIO","What software do you use to transcribe the speech? Whisper?",{"id":218,"by":219,"text":220},"34734676","71a54xd","Have you tweaked Whisper in any specific ways to improve accuracy?",{"value":222,"source":98,"evidence":223},"How are podcasts discovered for indexing",[224],{"id":225,"by":226,"text":227},"34738078","rohit89","How do you discover new podcasts to index?",{"value":229,"source":98,"evidence":230},"Is it legal to transcribe podcasts without permission",[231,232],{"id":152,"by":153,"text":154},{"id":156,"by":142,"text":157},[234,245,252,259,269],{"value":235,"source":98,"evidence":236},"ListenNotes",[237,241],{"id":238,"by":239,"text":240},"34735022","culi","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…",{"id":242,"by":243,"text":244},"34736234","jonmc12","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…",{"value":246,"source":98,"evidence":247},"Podscribe",[248],{"id":249,"by":250,"text":251},"34734017","tootie","Please 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…",{"value":253,"source":98,"evidence":254},"Snipd",[255],{"id":256,"by":257,"text":258},"34735046","rubslopes","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,…",{"value":260,"source":98,"evidence":261},"Steno.ai and Podscript.ai",[262,265],{"id":263,"by":170,"text":264},"34732801","https:\u002F\u002Fpodscript.ai\u002F too!",{"id":266,"by":267,"text":268},"34734190","mickelsen","also adding https:\u002F\u002Fsteno.ai to the list",{"value":270,"source":98,"evidence":271},"Podscription.app",[272],{"id":273,"by":274,"text":275},"34732691","SCUSKU","Here's my crack at a podcast transcription website: https:\u002F\u002Fpodscription.app I made this while unemployed and the skills I learned from making it helped me land my new job!",{"comments":277,"answered":49,"key":278},6,[279,282,285],{"id":280,"text":281},"34731697","I've been thinking about how to improve search, would love to try a demo of your product!",{"id":283,"text":284},"34731795","Thanks! 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