AI Transcription, Podherd Chapter Detection Tools
The conversation explores using AI tools like Podherd to transcribe back catalogues and automatically detect chapters and topics. By breaking long interviews into labeled, searchable sections, podcasters can create public episode pages that allow strangers to find specific answers within a larger recording. The "random Tuesday" test is suggested to determine which chapters are worth optimizing: if the content will still be relevant in five years, it is a candidate for a searchable title.
podherd· ai transcription· chapter markers· podcast tools· discoverability
08:30 the middle of an interview fine but nobody outside your feed is ever going to see that no so every episode needs its own searchable page with those chapters on it so the answer can be found by somebody who's never heard of you ideally they land on the page and can jump straight to minute 20. that's the bit my tax episode had by accident a page whose words matched the question i assume podherd does this yes on podherd back catalogue transcription ai chapters and topics and searchable public episode pages are on every tier including beeherd other tools do
09:09 versions of it too what i'd stress is that it's how you'd go looking not a promise of what you'll find good because i'd want to know what to expect if i actually tried it most chapters will turn out to be nothing a stranger would ever search for a few might be your in-house bit a durable question hiding inside a conversation and even those would take months to get picked up if they ever do it's still the only way i know of to look for them without spending a year with headphones on and how would you know which chapters are worth bothering with same test you gave earlier could a stranger ask that question on a random tuesday in five years
09:49 if yes it's a candidate if it only makes sense to someone who heard last week's episode leave leave it alone. And once you've found one? Then it's the dull stuff. A title that says what's in it. Notes that start with the question rather than the guest's name. That's all my tax episode ever had going for it. So you're not promising anyone a catalogue full of tax episodes. No. My point is that most people have no idea which ones they've got. I didn't. And the only one I found, I found by accident. I want to push back on the whole direction of this, though, before anyone listening goes home and starts making 40-minute tax explainers.