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2 points by onesandofgrain 4 hours ago · 1 comment

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onesandofgrainOP 4 hours ago

Hi HN — wanted to share something I’ve been building.

I made a tool that lets you search podcast transcripts *by speaker*, so you can follow specific people across different shows.

You can look up quotes, filter by name (or the other way around), and see everything a person has said — complete with timestamps and a read-along transcript UI. There’s also the option to subscribe to *RSS feeds for individuals*, instead of entire podcasts.

I started this because I wanted to find episodes where certain speakers talked about topics I care about (longevity research, in my case). Keyword searches like “rapamycin” surfaced plenty of results — just rarely from the people I actually wanted to hear from.

I can see this being useful for journalists, researchers, hobbyists, or anyone interested in tracking what specific voices are saying across the podcast ecosystem.

Right now it’s a small proof of concept — indexing ~10 podcasts while I build out the pipeline and UI. Happy to hear feedback, ideas, or use cases I haven’t thought of.

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