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by laborcontract 906 days ago
2023 is the year I divorced podcasts. Don't feel like I missed much.
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andrewmutz 906 days ago
Why did you divorce podcasts?
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laborcontract 906 days ago
I just realized the idle chatter filled up my head. Using LLMs to summarize them have also made me realize how repetitive and samey the insight-based interview podcasts are. It's not accurate that I divorced podcasts fully. I listen to one or two shows a week. One is a technology podcast and the other is a film podcast, both have a group of friends.

So long story short, chemistry is all that matters to me about most podcasts don't have it.

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Racing0461 906 days ago
> chemistry is all that matters to me

This. I can't listen to audio only podcasts with boring hosts.

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grudg3 906 days ago
How did you summarize them with LLM? I'm curious to try it please.
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mmh0000 906 days ago
I don't know how OP does it, but here's how I'd do it:

* Generate a transcript by runing Whisper against the podcast audio file: https://github.com/openai/whisper

* Upload transcript to ChatGPT and ask it to summarize.

* Automate all the above.

EDIT: Apparently I'm not keeping up with the times. ChatGPT can directly read/transcribe mp3 files now. Step 1 I guess isn't really needed.

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