About

The Podcast
By far one of my favorite podcasts to listen to, the Bookworm Podcast "is dedicated to doing more than just reading books. Joe and Mike read a book every two weeks and discuss ways to apply the authors lessons to their lives."
Several times recently, Mike has wondered which book sparked the action item of ranking his friends. I kept wondering the same thing, and wondered how hard it would be to run the episodes through an automated transcription process and then search the results to find the answer to this question.
Psst - It's Free to Focus by Michael Hyatt, if you were also curious. Go to that episode's transcript page and search for social audit.
Whisper
I ran the audio through this C++ Port of OpenAI's Whisper engine and it produces results that are not 100% accurate, but close enough to search. Once I realized what I had on my hands, I couldn't stop myself from creating a full website that everyone could use to search these transcripts. Is this useful? I don't know, but it sure was fun to build.
Tools Used:
This site was built using Laravel and TailwindCSS, with a little bit of AlpineJS sprinkled in. It is deployed to a Digital Ocean droplet by Laravel Forge.