Spoken.md
Podcast transcripts as Markdown, with real speaker names
Details
- External ID
- 1259145
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Spoken.md
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 24, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.30815693820825313
- Tags
- API, Developer Tools, Artificial Intelligence, GitHub
- Fetched at
- Sept. 26, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 26, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
Description
Spoken is an API that returns any published podcast episode as Markdown, with real speaker names. List a show's episodes, fetch them all, point them at your notes or your LLM. One credit per episode, no subscription, errors never charged. Free demo key.
Enrichment
- Theme
- video transcription and extraction tools
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Content generation
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- AI feature
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- podcast transcription tool for markdown output
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial While transcription APIs exist, building a reliable pipeline that ingests any RSS podcast audio, performs speaker diarization, and accurately aligns real speaker names from episode metadata or external profiles requires complex audio processing and entity linking.
What it would actually take: The service needs an asynchronous worker queue (Celery/BullMQ) fetching RSS feeds and audio files, paired with speech-to-text and diarization pipelines (WhisperX, PyAnnote). Matching diarized voice tracks to real speaker names requires cross-referencing episode show notes, external guest metadata, or running speaker voiceprint embeddings across an indexed database. Handling edge cases like crosstalk, intro music, and long-audio rate limits requires robust media processing infrastructure.
Competitors
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Attention rank: #88 of 151 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 321 days after the earliest competitor.
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- TranscribeAndSplit · hn · 2025-11-14 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.39
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- No other launches for this product.
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