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10gb cloud storage, web/desktop app still has no feature parity with android app after years. It's been years since beta, no playlist, per podcast setting sync,

10gb cloud storage, web/desktop app still has no feature parity with android app after years. It's been years since beta, no playlist, per podcast setting sync, chapters support etc. Waiting for a bigger player to take podcast experience to the next level to TBH. Listenernotes posted the other day was a good start that I've been using for a while. But would be nice to have transcription support, searching within episodes (which youtube now has), commenting, recommendations to specific episodes of other podcasts based on current episode etc. I know Google has been working on podcast transcription but their podcast options including googleplay music are pretty anemic. It's still basically Google Listen circa 2009.

tim58 7y ago
> transcription support If I wanted to add transcription support to a podcasting app, which third party services or software packages I use to turn the audio into text? A similar problem stumped a weekend project ~5 months ago for me. Transcription seems to be non-trival.
- dirtyid 7y ago
  Google does it automatically, mostly used for better search indexing. I was mainly spitballing features that would be possible. Listennotes which was featured in a thread here recently has transcribe support. I don't know what services it uses for computer speech to text. Maybe Amazon speech to text? https://aws.amazon.com/transcribe/ https://aws.amazon.com/transcribe/ You can investigate their transcribe section near the bottom here, the example has timestamped transcription which generates useful chapter skip links. The price quote is generated from episode length I think. https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/london-real/dan-carlin-hardcore-history-TuSVa9ciejz/ https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/london-real/dan-carlin-...
hs86 7y ago
Interestingly, their Mac app supports chapter marks but in Chrome, Safari or the Windows app they are not supported.

tim58 7y ago

> transcription support If I wanted to add transcription support to a podcasting app, which third party services or software packages I use to turn the audio into text? A similar problem stumped a weekend project ~5 months ago for me. Transcription seems to be non-trival.

dirtyid 7y ago
Google does it automatically, mostly used for better search indexing. I was mainly spitballing features that would be possible. Listennotes which was featured in a thread here recently has transcribe support. I don't know what services it uses for computer speech to text. Maybe Amazon speech to text? https://aws.amazon.com/transcribe/ https://aws.amazon.com/transcribe/ You can investigate their transcribe section near the bottom here, the example has timestamped transcription which generates useful chapter skip links. The price quote is generated from episode length I think. https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/london-real/dan-carlin-hardcore-history-TuSVa9ciejz/ https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/london-real/dan-carlin-...

hs86 7y ago

Interestingly, their Mac app supports chapter marks but in Chrome, Safari or the Windows app they are not supported.