Strongest fit
Who it is built for
- Market researchers tracking consumer and brand conversations
- Podcasters searching prior episodes and distributing transcripts
- Journalists finding timestamped podcast commentary
Tapesearch
Search podcast conversations and find exact spoken moments
Tapesearch is a podcast-transcript search platform for locating discussions, mentions, and audio timestamps across podcasts. It supports full-text, semantic, and hybrid search, episode chat, keyword alerts, trend analysis, transcript downloads, and API access for research and monitoring workflows.
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- Best for
- Market researchers tracking consumer and brand conversations
- Pricing signal
- Free
- Primary category
- Research assistants
- Last verified
- Jul 30, 2026
The decision
Should Tapesearch make your shortlist?
Start with the job, the team, and the constraints. Product fit becomes much clearer when those three line up.
Practical use cases
Jobs it can take on
- Find an exact discussion or quote in a podcast transcript
- Receive alerts when a tracked keyword is mentioned
- Download timestamped podcast transcripts
Before you choose
Know the tradeoffs
- Paywalled and exclusive podcasts, including Spotify exclusives, are not yet included.
- Transcripts can contain errors with names, fast speech, speech over music, and timestamps.
- Excessive automated scraping or downloading is prohibited.
Inside the product
What you can actually do with it.
The core product capabilities, grouped around the work they enable.
Transcript search
Tapesearch searches podcast transcripts, summaries, episode titles, and podcast titles and links results to precise timestamps.
Semantic and hybrid retrieval
Semantic and hybrid modes can find conceptually related discussions in addition to keyword matches.
Alerts and trends
Tapesearch can alert users when tracked topics appear in podcasts and provide data on conversational trends.
Typical workflow
Users search podcast transcript fields with plain text, simple syntax, or Lucene queries, and can choose full-text, semantic, or hybrid retrieval. Tapesearch returns matching discussions and timestamps so users can go directly to the relevant audio. Subscribers can download transcripts, set alerts, or use the API.
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