Readable Podcasts is a new interface that lets you highlight podcasts for the first time. Easily navigate podcasts with AI chapter summaries and highlight with your AirPods to retain more of what you listen to.
Hi Product Hunt!
I'm Ben, the cofounder of Matter. Today we're thrilled to launch Readable Podcasts, a new interface that lets you highlight podcasts for the first time.
Podcasts are exploding in popularity because they’re a unique source of practical knowledge. But while audio is rich and expressive, it’s not great for recall. Unlike text, audio can’t be highlighted, copied, saved, or shared. Nor can it be searched, skimmed, referenced, or reviewed. Thus, a growing body of knowledge is “trapped” in podcast audio, unable to be fully exploited by learners.
Readable Podcasts solves this problem by providing complete transcripts alongside every podcast episode. The audio and text are kept in sync, so you can seamlessly switch from listening to reading and vice versa.
When you hear an interesting idea, you can double-tap your headphones to highlight the accompanying text. Or, you can open your phone to interact with the podcast in its “article” form, using Matter’s reader interface to highlight, take notes, and share quotes.
To try Readable Podcasts, download Matter from the iOS App Store. Then, save an episode to Matter from your current podcast app using the share extension. The episode will appear in your Matter Queue with its transcript.
Note that Matter is a complement — not a replacement — for your current podcast app. You can still use Spotify, Overcast, Apple Podcasts, or your player of choice to receive and listen to new episodes. When there’s an episode you want to go deeper on, simply save it to Matter and listen there as a Readable Podcast.
We're excited to hear what you think!
About Readable Podcasts on Product Hunt
“Highlight podcasts for the first time.”
Readable Podcasts launched on Product Hunt on September 28th, 2023 and earned 155 upvotes and 30 comments, placing #19 on the daily leaderboard. Readable Podcasts is a new interface that lets you highlight podcasts for the first time. Easily navigate podcasts with AI chapter summaries and highlight with your AirPods to retain more of what you listen to.
On the analytics side, Readable Podcasts competes within Productivity, User Experience and Artificial Intelligence — topics that collectively have 1.5M followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Readable Podcasts performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Readable Podcasts?
Readable Podcasts was hunted by Ben Springwater. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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