jamescridland

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Comment · 1 year ago
My dude! Just use Whisper-CPP! It's free and takes almost no time! :)

You may also find that many podcasts include a transcript anyway - look for podcast:transcript in the RSS feed, which will link to a VTT or SRT format file.

Comment · 1 year ago
I'm curious - the female voice is definitely AI.

But is the male voice AI? There are a few ums and ers there ... and why would you record an AI voice too close to the microphone, so every time they say a plosive, it sounds bad?

Comment · 1 year ago
Hey, @bjar2 - would love to cover this for Podnews, the industry newsletter.

I guess I'm curious about how the discovery platform works, and what data you're using. An API would be fun, wouldn't it?

[email protected]

Comment · 1 year ago
This is a really interesting piece of work. I wonder what use it might have - perhaps it might aid those companies who do "brand suitability" tools, being able to spot when someone is being ironic or sarcastic.

Putting it into the Podnews newsletter today.

Comment · 1 year ago
This is nice, though Google's NotebookLM (and similar products from ElevenLabs and Meta) offer much the same thing for free.
Comment · 2 years ago
Bitwarden also supports passkeys, and works on iOS, Android, Mac, Windows etc.

Mind, I’ve no idea how well it does so. Every so often, my passkeys fail in some incomprehensible way, so I’m not very comfortable with the concept.

Comment · 2 years ago
alternateEnclosure is supported by PodcastAddict, PodLP, TrueFans, and a few more out of the gate. It's a comparatively new tag, but one that will be quite interesting once more podcast apps begin using it.
Comment · 2 years ago
You can either use the iTunes API, or you can use the Podcast Index, which is free and open for anyone. podcastindex.org also has a number of APIs to help build a tool.
Comment · 2 years ago
That RSS feed is working just fine for me... ?
Comment · 2 years ago
> Please believe me. My current email server IP has been managed by me and used exclusively for my personal email with zero spam, zero, for the last ten years.

I don't believe you. Sorry. Unless you never actually use your email address for anything, to have zero spam is impossible.

Unless you mean that you have a 100% success rate in filtering that spam out, and in which case, I'd still not believe you.

Comment · 2 years ago
Podcast: https://podnews.net/listen Newsletter: https://podnews.net

(Mind you, I do write it)

Comment · 3 years ago
The YouTube Music app - a pre-installed app on most new Android phones - lets you subscribe to podcasts via RSS feed. If you know the RSS feed address, that is.

So I built a thing to help you find the RSS feed address for your favourite podcast.

Super simple, straightforward, and works on anything (though you'll not, yet, be able to add shows using iPhone - YTM is rolling that out soon).

Comment · 3 years ago
There are transcripts in some podcasts. Try looking at the RSS feed for Podnews Daily - in your service as https://pods.ee/261 (look at today's, Oct 19, since there was a bug generating the SRT/TXT versions recently).

You'll find transcripts for some shows in SRT format, and some have JSON and TXT as well.

Use those transcripts if they exist, I reckon!

Also, check podcastindex.org for an alternative search API; and join podcastindex.social to learn more about the various tools.

Comment · 3 years ago
Free podcast stats can be generated using https://op3.dev

Cloudfront on top of an Amazon S3 bucket is cheaper and faster than Amazon S3 on its own, by the way.

You might also look at IPFS Podcasting, but that requires quite a leap of faith!

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