Steamship seems like a handy framework for some prototyping. Are there any similar tools that can do similar things?
The similar thing this project has got me really wanting is the ability to find snippets of a topic across all the podcast archives I like. Sort of the podcast equivalent of falling into a Wikipedia hole and learning all about a topic from different angles.
Re: other tools -- We're a developer platform, so we're offering tooling from that angle: packages you can drop into a platform and just start using. (In this case, audio search). What's nice about the way it works is you can swap out components: use any transcription engine, any set of models, etc -- and then query across the results.
Some of the transcription-specific API companies (like Assembly) are starting to build in search capabilities, which will also be useful depending on workload and whether you want to add your models or endpoints to the mix.
Tv series is a good idea! What insights would you extract from them?
I can already see myself analysing the mood in shark tank pitches. I wonder if you can create a model to analyze all pitches on shark tank and then come up with its own. That would be cool!
For example I skip most episodes with comedians, entertainers etc and mostly listen to creators, doers and experts in a field, as I find those the most interesting.