I built a service for generating summaries of any podcast

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Hey HN!Around a year ago, I had the idea of using generative AI to automatically create notes from podcasts, so that it would be easier to resurface stuff I had listened to in the past.I spent a few weeks creating an MVP by combining OpenAI Whisper with an LLM pipeline, and it worked surprisingly well. In just a few minutes, the tool could generate written summaries of pretty much any podcast.I dubbed it Snipcast, and I've added a lot of features and improvements since then. You can now use it with any major podcast platform (Spotify, Youtube, Apple, etc.), get timestamps in the summaries, access full transcripts, and even upload your own audio files for summarization.In March this year I la

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Website: snipcast.io