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Ask HN: Can I sample podcasts like trailers or tweets?
4 points by gatorbait83 on July 14, 2020 | hide | past | favorite | 4 comments
With the explosion of podcasts, I find myself struggling to keep with my playlist. Is there a way to sample podcasts similar to tweets and then listen to ones of interest? More recently, I also find the same guests showing up at many of the podcasts that I follow.


Maybe if podcast apps had some kind of user-provided feedback as to which parts were good.. but for the most part podcasts are hands-off fire and forget consumable experiences.

Another alternative would be some kind of excitement recognizer, or monologue recognizer, etc. Get a machine learning model to find the moments that seem like a good back-and-forth or a solid exposition. Pad the recording a minute or two on both ends, etc...

But that raises the issue that in podcasts a lot of the time people build off of parts of the conversation that happened a long time earlier. So, it may be just difficult to sample longer podcasts in general. Perhaps you could try to listen to 5 minute podcasts, or something like that.


Maybe you could use the show notes?


frankly speaking as of now i don't think there is proper way to do podcast like that


That's what I thought too.




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