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Audiosear.ch — Full text search & discovery engine for podcasts
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@rrhoover Hey Ryan, thanks! We're taking suggestions of shows to add — anyone can email info@audiosear.ch or suggest things directly through the comment form on our site. You can also sign up for audio alerts, i.e. "apple watch" or "product hunt" (feature coming soon). In terms of UI: is there anything specific you could do without? What don't you need to see? Representing audio and time-based text is tough — our work is surely far from done.
Yo Anne, as expected, I searched "Nigeria" first and came across this https://www.audiosear.ch/a/b7/in...
The transcript is looking quite impressive. However there are a few mistakes. How do we help make corrections?
@oothenigerian Great question. There's no way for you to help make corrections. And while that's not part of our immediate plan for Audiosear.ch, there are a few great crowdsourcing efforts (like amara.org) out there to help transcribe/caption/translate public media — though to be fair they focus more on video than audio. We've done some experiments through our work and partners at popuparchive.com and found that there are very dedicated communities out there who are eager to help (like you!).
Phenomenally smart team of WOMEN building a badass product that solves a real problem & opens a massive new market opportunity., Great early B2B traction. Proud to be 500 family with Bailey & Anne.
@oilcanguitar Thanks, Adam. Here's some market research for you courtesy of Audiosear.ch: https://www.audiosear.ch/search?...
Very cool. I gave up a huge part of my life working on this technology and loved it. See our work at Pluggd. http://techcrunch.com/2006/09/24...
@drew Wow, Pluggd sounds awesome. Would love to learn more about your experience. Just followed you from @audiosearchfm — follow back so we can get in touch? Or we can be reached here: info at audiosear.ch
We’re trying to fix podcast discovery because right now, it’s broken.
We’re launching Audiosear.ch — a full-text search and discovery engine for podcasts — to Product Hunters first because we know lots of people in this community who are hungry for podcasts, and we want to help you find more of them. And we’d really, really love your feedback.
At Audiosear.ch, you can search for words, phrases, people, topics, shows, or pretty much anything you want to find in podcasts. You can tweet exact moments from your favorite episodes, create playlists, sign up for audio alerts, and get related podcast recommendations for any given episode.
We’ve limited our scope to podcasts on SoundCloud for now, but we’re taking suggestions! What are we missing?
We’ll be answering comments all day. Holler at us anytime.
@annewootton congrats on the launch! what are your top 5 favorite podcasts? :)
@annewootton I was just about to send you the link then saw you as the maker! Yaay!
Quick one, how do you determine what to index? Can people submit links to be indexed because I am thinking you will be limited to podcasts in your sphere. Or do you automatically index anything on SoundCloud labelled "Podcast"?
Great job! We need more intelligent podcasts and less funny vines.
@eriktorenberg Thanks Erik! Are you baiting me to rep the Product Hunt podcast? Just kidding.
Currently, based on my most frequent recent listens: Reply All, Invisibilia, Love + Radio, Slate Culture Gabfest, StartUp. And Popcast, the latest from Pop Up Archive, which features amazing short archival audio clips from NASA to Sylvia Plath!
Around the office we find ourselves talking about The Heart and Planet Money a lot too. And these are obvious choices, but This American Life and Serial are all-time favorites.
@oothenigerian Hi Oo, thanks for the kind words! Right now we've limited the index to top-performing podcasts on SoundCloud, but it might expand from there. You can definitely submit links to be indexed, whether to info@audiosear.ch or through the comment form on the website. Please do!
Spencer, thanks! Stay tuned. We're working on the API. Would you like to use it?
@annewootton @spencer414 Please count us (@adorilabs) in the API access list. As you know we have big fans since the launch of PopUpArchive. Congrats in the incredible progress
Thanks @kartikparija! Happy to include you & @adorilabs in the API access list. We're glad to have your support.
I've been following what Popup Archive is up to for a bit, and I was initially drawn in by the prospect of getting transcripts for my podcast (Longform Podcast) which has been a consistent (and heretofore expensive) challenge.
Our podcast is amongst the early set that they've been search archiving and I've already found it quite useful to be able to search among my own episodes, as well as see what other shows future guests have been on previously. We put together a 100th episode clips show last year and this search function would have saved us many hours.
I only see this become more useful as the number of high quality podcasts swells and Audiosear.ch is able to catalog most (or even all?) of them.
@aaronlammer Thanks Aaron! Glad to hear you're finding it useful so far. Would love to know instances where the search functionality is letting you down. It sounds like you're mainly searching for people by name, whether to find instances where they are talking or being talked about on other shows. Anything else?
@annewootton this is incredible! I think this fills a need that will become even more relevant as time goes by and podcasts continue to grow. Essentially there needs to be a search engine specifically for podcasts. You should connect with @mubashariqbal the maker of Interviewed (http://www.producthunt.com/posts...) - he's passionate about this idea as well!
@mubashariqbal @joshmuccio Thank you, Josh! And thanks for the heads up about Interviewed. It's very cool. @mubashariqbal, expect to hear from us.
The speech-to-text engine seems amazing. I thought this tech was deemed to be edgy, you proved me wrong :)
Do you intend to support video search as well ? I can't tell how many times it took me minutes to skip into a video in order to find that specific time when they were saying "this" or "that" (this definitely looks like something that could be acquired by google/youtube :) ).
@oelmekki Thanks! Yeah, we were actually quoted in 2012 saying the speech-to-text tech would never get there. Happily, we were incorrect about that — proved ourselves wrong.
We get asked about video all the time. It's on the table. But we're focusing on spoken word/audio for now.
Great idea! Will be a great tool for podcast discovery! Our users are going to be stoked on it as well.
@annewootton As a podcaster that doesn't use Soundcloud, I'm really interested in your service. However, I'd like to know if there's a timeline to include shows that host in other places?
@aaroncrocco Hi Aaron! Great question. We don't have a formal timeline. But we can only contain ourselves for so long... what would you like to see first? RSS feeds, other sources?
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