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Show HN: Podsee – AI tool for podcast listeners

16 points by gonglexin 3y ago

Hi everyone, I just launched Podsee(https://pods.ee https://pods.ee) for podcast listeners, lovers. You can search and listen to podcasts at Podsee. What makes it different is that you can get the AI transcript for an episode. It started as a side project after I resigned my job one year ago. As a programmer, I love Elixir (http://elixir-lang.org/ http://elixir-lang.org/) and Phoenix LiveView(https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix_live_view https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix_live_view), and want to make a product with it. So I build Podsee. I'm planning to add more AI features to it, like summarize the episode audio, episode to comics, etc. I'd love to invite you all to try out the product and would appreciate hearing your feedback! Thanks!

snissn 3y ago
I’d personally love to get help finding podcasts to listen to. Given a user listening to xyz podcasts show that abc are similar. Or just for each podcast show similar ones with some kind of general explore feature
- gonglexin 3y ago
  good suggestion
- ka_me_ha_me_ha 3y ago
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JoycePicep 3y ago
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akuji1993 3y ago
The search seems to be very overwhelmed by traffic. I tried to find my own podcast "Code & Conquer - The Indie Hacker Podcast" but it doesn't show up. Or it showed up once, but I couldn't interact with the element? Not sure what I'm supposed to do after it found the podcast I'm looking for. The + button doesn't do anything.
- gonglexin 3y ago
  Sorry for the UI misunderstanding, Your podcast is here https://pods.ee/260 https://pods.ee/260
jamescridland 3y ago
There are transcripts in some podcasts. Try looking at the RSS feed for Podnews Daily - in your service as https://pods.ee/261 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.
- gonglexin 3y ago
  OK, good advice. I will take a look at it.
astroid 3y ago
I am guessing you are already on top of this, but just in case I wanted to suggest that you aim for Podcasting 2.0 compatibility: https://podnews.net/podcast/i4ji5 https://podnews.net/podcast/i4ji5 https://github.com/Podcastindex-org/podcast-namespace/blob/main/podcasting2.0.md https://github.com/Podcastindex-org/podcast-namespace/blob/m... https://podcastindex.org/ https://podcastindex.org/ Also I tried searching for my top 5 podcasts, and none of them came up which was disappointing. Neat idea though.
- astroid 3y ago
  One more link I forgot: https://api.podcastindex.org/signup https://api.podcastindex.org/signup I am unaffiliated, I just like what they are doing.
- gonglexin 3y ago
  Could you please list those podcast names, I'll have a look.
smcleod 3y ago
Doesn’t seem to have any of the podcasts I listen to on it - all of which are very popular. The skeptics guide to the universe, no such thing as a fish to name a few.
- gonglexin 3y ago
  Sorry for that, we have two kinds of search, one for existing podcasts in Podsee, one for search internet. You may searched the existing data. The skeptics guide to the universe: https://pods.ee/283 https://pods.ee/283 no such thing as a fish: https://pods.ee/280 https://pods.ee/280
  - smcleod 3y ago
    Ahhh, I see - yeah that was quite confusing. Great to see them on there!
bayshark 3y ago
Congrats on launch! I like how simple the layout is and you can get right to value. Any difference between an AI transcript and a transcript provided by the show itself or something like PodScripts? Also, I see the red icon next to pod eps does that indicate an AI transcript was created for this ep and not others?
- gonglexin 3y ago
  Sorry, I know nothing about PodScripts. For the AI transcript, we do a speech recognition and turn the whole audio to the text. AFAIK, podcast owner often provide show notes, not the whole text version for their show. And your are right, the red icon indicate that the episode has already been transcribed by AI, you can see the text version of it.
  - astroid 3y ago
    I mentioned this in another comment, but I think it bears repeating since you mentioned "FAIK, podcast owner often provide show notes, not the whole text version for their show." -- take a look at the podcasting 2.0 specs, they absolutely do provide transcripts to whole shows. It's an open source standard which includes transcripts, chapter art, and a bunch of other added functionality which is being driven by Adam Currey, who is known for the original creation of podcasting, was an MTV VJ who ran mtv.com before MTV realized there was value there, and now hosts the No Agenda podcast. I have a feeling you will find some value in the standards, given that the transcript format/metadata is already established. https://github.com/Podcastindex-org/podcast-namespace/tree/main/transcripts https://github.com/Podcastindex-org/podcast-namespace/tree/m... https://podnews.net/podcast/i4ji5 https://podnews.net/podcast/i4ji5
atmosx 3y ago
Congratulations on the launch. I like the general look and feel. Is your system to perform transcript and digitisation in languages other than English? I have a Greek podcast that I'd like to generate transcripts. I tried google but results were bellow average. Whisper is awesome in performing the transcript but lacks digitisation - should be _easy_ because in my case it's just two speakers.
- gonglexin 3y ago
  I'm currently focus on English, but would love to support other languages in the near future. May I have the link of that Greek podcast, I can have a look at it.
  - atmosx 3y ago
    Here is the link: https://timis-eneken.github.io/ https://timis-eneken.github.io/ I uploaded just a few episodes, there are many more from years past and the show is still ongoing. I stopped uploading episodes to solve the transcription problem programmatically but got stuck then "life" happened. I'd gladly pay for a service that can do that reliably for me though. ps. In case you hit new ground, please drop an email :-)
    - gonglexin 3y ago
      Hi atmosx, just send an email to you.
CygnusX-1 3y ago
Congrats on shipping! I like the uncluttered format. When there are no search results (e.g. "finance"), the result is a blank screen instead of something like "no podcasts found, try another search". The other thing is, search seems to be based on the podcast title/description instead of individual podcasts. I'm new to podcasts, so pardon this question - is it possible to use the "scroll bar" to fast-forward? I use this quite a bit on Youtube. Also, is it possible to change the playback speed?
- gonglexin 3y ago
  Thanks for your valuable feedback! I'm going to fix it.

16 points by gonglexin 3y ago

snissn 3y ago

I’d personally love to get help finding podcasts to listen to. Given a user listening to xyz podcasts show that abc are similar. Or just for each podcast show similar ones with some kind of general explore feature

gonglexin 3y ago
good suggestion
ka_me_ha_me_ha 3y ago
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JoycePicep 3y ago

[dead]

akuji1993 3y ago

The search seems to be very overwhelmed by traffic. I tried to find my own podcast "Code & Conquer - The Indie Hacker Podcast" but it doesn't show up. Or it showed up once, but I couldn't interact with the element? Not sure what I'm supposed to do after it found the podcast I'm looking for. The + button doesn't do anything.

gonglexin 3y ago
Sorry for the UI misunderstanding, Your podcast is here https://pods.ee/260 https://pods.ee/260

jamescridland 3y ago

There are transcripts in some podcasts. Try looking at the RSS feed for Podnews Daily - in your service as https://pods.ee/261 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.

gonglexin 3y ago
OK, good advice. I will take a look at it.

astroid 3y ago

I am guessing you are already on top of this, but just in case I wanted to suggest that you aim for Podcasting 2.0 compatibility: https://podnews.net/podcast/i4ji5 https://podnews.net/podcast/i4ji5 https://github.com/Podcastindex-org/podcast-namespace/blob/main/podcasting2.0.md https://github.com/Podcastindex-org/podcast-namespace/blob/m... https://podcastindex.org/ https://podcastindex.org/ Also I tried searching for my top 5 podcasts, and none of them came up which was disappointing. Neat idea though.

astroid 3y ago
One more link I forgot: https://api.podcastindex.org/signup https://api.podcastindex.org/signup I am unaffiliated, I just like what they are doing.
gonglexin 3y ago
Could you please list those podcast names, I'll have a look.

smcleod 3y ago

Doesn’t seem to have any of the podcasts I listen to on it - all of which are very popular. The skeptics guide to the universe, no such thing as a fish to name a few.

gonglexin 3y ago
Sorry for that, we have two kinds of search, one for existing podcasts in Podsee, one for search internet. You may searched the existing data. The skeptics guide to the universe: https://pods.ee/283 https://pods.ee/283 no such thing as a fish: https://pods.ee/280 https://pods.ee/280
- smcleod 3y ago
  Ahhh, I see - yeah that was quite confusing. Great to see them on there!

bayshark 3y ago

Congrats on launch! I like how simple the layout is and you can get right to value. Any difference between an AI transcript and a transcript provided by the show itself or something like PodScripts? Also, I see the red icon next to pod eps does that indicate an AI transcript was created for this ep and not others?

gonglexin 3y ago
Sorry, I know nothing about PodScripts. For the AI transcript, we do a speech recognition and turn the whole audio to the text. AFAIK, podcast owner often provide show notes, not the whole text version for their show. And your are right, the red icon indicate that the episode has already been transcribed by AI, you can see the text version of it.
- astroid 3y ago
  I mentioned this in another comment, but I think it bears repeating since you mentioned "FAIK, podcast owner often provide show notes, not the whole text version for their show." -- take a look at the podcasting 2.0 specs, they absolutely do provide transcripts to whole shows. It's an open source standard which includes transcripts, chapter art, and a bunch of other added functionality which is being driven by Adam Currey, who is known for the original creation of podcasting, was an MTV VJ who ran mtv.com before MTV realized there was value there, and now hosts the No Agenda podcast. I have a feeling you will find some value in the standards, given that the transcript format/metadata is already established. https://github.com/Podcastindex-org/podcast-namespace/tree/main/transcripts https://github.com/Podcastindex-org/podcast-namespace/tree/m... https://podnews.net/podcast/i4ji5 https://podnews.net/podcast/i4ji5

atmosx 3y ago

Congratulations on the launch. I like the general look and feel. Is your system to perform transcript and digitisation in languages other than English? I have a Greek podcast that I'd like to generate transcripts. I tried google but results were bellow average. Whisper is awesome in performing the transcript but lacks digitisation - should be _easy_ because in my case it's just two speakers.

gonglexin 3y ago
I'm currently focus on English, but would love to support other languages in the near future. May I have the link of that Greek podcast, I can have a look at it.
- atmosx 3y ago
  Here is the link: https://timis-eneken.github.io/ https://timis-eneken.github.io/ I uploaded just a few episodes, there are many more from years past and the show is still ongoing. I stopped uploading episodes to solve the transcription problem programmatically but got stuck then "life" happened. I'd gladly pay for a service that can do that reliably for me though. ps. In case you hit new ground, please drop an email :-)
  - gonglexin 3y ago
    Hi atmosx, just send an email to you.

CygnusX-1 3y ago

Congrats on shipping! I like the uncluttered format. When there are no search results (e.g. "finance"), the result is a blank screen instead of something like "no podcasts found, try another search". The other thing is, search seems to be based on the podcast title/description instead of individual podcasts. I'm new to podcasts, so pardon this question - is it possible to use the "scroll bar" to fast-forward? I use this quite a bit on Youtube. Also, is it possible to change the playback speed?

gonglexin 3y ago
Thanks for your valuable feedback! I'm going to fix it.