It's called Propaganda, and if you're interested in having your own podcast but are fazed by the technical issues involved with doing so, it's exactly what you've been waiting for. I recently tried out a brand-new product from the company that makes MixMeister DJ software. This is all well and good for people who are looking for podcasts, but what about those brave souls out there who want to produce podcasts they can give to the world that express their own thoughts and musical tastes? Right now, Podscope is the best way to search them all. The BBC, NPR, Clear Channel stations and several other commercial radio stations are making their content available as podcasts.
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"But it has now become so easy to download nonmusic types of audio that (the talk format) seems to be exploding." And it's not just Adam Curry. "What's happening is, people are clearly buying and giving iPods initially for music," Ives said. What can you expect from this community? Right now, it's a mix of music and talk shows, as well as hybrids in which the hosts play a song and then comment on it. That's by no means perfect, but it's still accurate enough to let you find several needles in the growing haystack of the "podcastosphere," or whatever silly thing we're going to end up calling the podcasting community. Ives also said the current success rate for transcription is roughly 75 percent to 80 percent. The system is scalable, since it relies on automated transcription. Find something you like and you can play the entire show, subscribe or listen to just a snippet that includes the word or phrase you entered. When you search Podscope, you're searching that database of transcribed text.
How does it work? According to TVEyes CEO David Ives, the core of the system involves a spider that plays each of the podcasts it tracks and then runs a speech-to-text algorithm on it.
It was developed by a company called TVEyes, which specializes in audio and video files that are text-searchable (ironically, the company recently licensed its technology to Yahoo for video searching). If you've already tuned in to podcasts, you know it can be hard to find good ones.Įnter Podscope: the first search engine built specifically for podcasts. If the podcasting surge turns out to be as explosive as most experts expect, these portals won't be able to keep up with the increase of available content any better than Yahoo's directories were able to keep up with the growth of the Internet. These podcasting portals are helpful, but they resemble the early mode of Internet searching, back when people still browsed Yahoo subcategories that were maintained by humans (rather than searching with Google). In the short history of podcasting, the most popular way to find shows has been to browse through a directory, such as iPodder, Podcast Alley,, or any of the other podcasting portals that have sprung up seemingly overnight, as entrepreneurs have struggled to make podcasting pay. Even the show put on by podcasting originator Adam Curry can get a little dull, occasionally veering into such murky areas as his girlfriend's progress with the dishwashing (yawn). If you've already tuned in to podcasts, you know it can be hard to find good ones, especially if you're looking for shows that deal with a specific topic or area of music. Think of podcasts as blogs, but with audio instead of text. This growing phenomenon allows anyone with a computer, a microphone and an Internet connection to create his or her own radio show. Commentary-If you don't know what "podcasting" means, it's time to get up to speed.
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