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Thanks! I'll check out their UI, mine definitely needs a lot of work :)


That's a great point, I'm parsing out ads to determine sponsorships anyway so filtering these from search should be straightforward. Thanks for the feedback :)


That's a great piece of feedback! I'll get this fixed soon, super useful suggestion


Yes, using Whisper running on banana.dev :)


Do I understand correctly banana pricing is that it costs $1.87 per hour, so the hour of audio with large model costs you about $1? Thats probably a bit too expensive compared to cloud providers.


Whisper can be run on CPUs and produce high-quality transcripts. Doing it on CPU is like a 10th the price and more horizontally scalable.

This is using CPUs: https://modal-labs--whisper-pod-transcriber-fastapi-app.moda....

Transcribes a 1hr podcast in 1min for ~3-5cents.


> 1 hour of audio processing with Whisper on Banana costs <30 cents.

From their page on Whisper: https://www.banana.dev/deploy-whisper


Thats probably medium model


Currently I'm using Algolia but others have pointed out some alternatives I'll have to check out. Would love to hear any feedback/ideas you have from your project!


Awesome, I just tweeted at your proj re: gpu


Thanks! The search function is built with Algolia, I'm sure they support boolean ops like "AND" but I'll need to dig into their API. I think if you search both terms, transcripts containing both should be ranked higher.


I’m doing a similar personal product. Highly recommend switching to Typesense before your Algolia trial is up. I’ve heard good things about Meilisearch but Typesense has been rock solid for me.


I second that. Typesense is fantastic. I used it for a job board with 3 million and it did great.


Haven't heard about Typesense - thanks for the pointer! Btw if you want to trade notes on our projects, feel free to email me: team@podtext.ai


You might want to try semantic search instead of fiddling with keywords. Disclaimer: I'm building a plug-and-play semantic search API at https://kailualabs.com


I've been thinking about how to improve search, would love to try a demo of your product!


Appreciate the feedback! I'll keep these use cases in mind as I build out PodText Business


Building out the search a little more to support exact matches would also be super useful in this flow. For example, I've been on several podcasts talking about Notebook.ai, but searching for the name also matches "notebook", which results in an unusable signal-to-noise ratio (seeing every podcast that says the word "notebook"). Likewise, it'd be great to quote-search exact matches for "Andrew Brown", instead of seeing all podcasts that mention "Andrew" or "brown".


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