A podcast holds a lot of useful information, and almost none of it can be searched, quoted or passed to another tool. So I built a podcast transcription tool on Apify. You paste a feed, an Apple Podcasts link or a link to an audio file, and you get the text back with timestamps and subtitle files.

The input

One link is enough. This is the run from the video, an episode of NASA's Houston We Have a Podcast:

{ "sources" : [ "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-moon-base/id1262594123?i=1000789048885" ], "quality" : "accurate" }

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It also accepts an RSS feed, a podcast's website, or a direct link to an MP3, M4A, WAV or MP4 file. Standard quality uses the Whisper base model and Accurate uses Whisper small. Both run inside the Actor, so there's no OpenAI key to bring.

The output

The 52:18 episode became 8,022 words in 23 minutes on Accurate.…