I think it's been underreported to what extent podcasting (known as audioblogging for the first uneventful 5 years of its life) is an artifact of an advertising bubble. The nature of ads is to chase new formats, so you can tell better stories to ad buyers. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/18/style/why-are-there-so-many-podcasts.html …
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Just remember the famous pivot to video, where ad networks persuaded newsrooms that from now on we were going to get all of our news from short video clips, and how that went.
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Just from a bare economic argument, it's incontestable that podcasts are overhyped, and that soon the majority of Americans will be getting their news from a live stream of someone in a Sailor Moon costume playing video games for eight hours.
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I don't suppose you plan to just transcribe the podcasts by ear?
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It's an option, but it also feels like audio dictation has gotten good enough to automate this
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iirc there are a few podcasting groups that are using google's speech-to-text API to do exactly this for purposes of transcription/captions for YT uploads, and I believe there's a group in Spotify working on this as a feature for podcast platforms
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Craig Mod puts transcripts of the On Margins podcast in his newsletter: I always appreciate them. I DON'T HAVE TIME FOR THE HUMAN VOICE
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The main podcast I listen to is three women that talk about technology and video games, so that characterization falls a bit flat for me. But I agree ad-supported business model is not sustainable, and the market probably can't support many listener-supported things.
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