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by thimm 1367 days ago
Would love to have a service which allows me to search through all podcasts I’m consuming. There are so many times that I have some anchor knowledge but I cannot remember where I’ve heard it the last time and cannot find it back.
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You may be interested in Andrej Karpathy's experiment with OpenAI's latest STT Whisper model. Relevant tweet here: https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/1574474950416617472

By the way, if you are looking for a clean podcast consumption experience, do give a try to https://jkstream.com. Easy way to subscribe to your favorite podcast interviewers and guests.

When that happens, how can you be sure that it is something you heard on a podcast? Maybe it was something you heard in a YouTube video. Or read in a Medium post. What I’m saying is, wouldn’t a real solution to the problem you’re describing require access to all forms of verbal media that you are consuming?
That's probably true. I guess we have to start somewhere. I do agree with thimm I often reference a podcast but forgot which one. Being able to query the exact time a topic is discussed in a podcast does sound valuable.

Do you know of a solution that aims to solve this problem?

If its something read in a post on the internet then its usually easy enough to find by typing the parts you remember into google. But I agree, I have occasionally wished that youtube made the closed captions of youtube videos searchable for this reason.
Time for YT to up their caption game.
Steamship is happy to support a company looking to develop this!