About WikiTech
Podcasts are full of things worth finding again: the article a host mentioned, the book a guest recommended, the ten minutes where they finally explained that one story. But audio is hard to search. WikiTech turns podcast episodes into a searchable wiki, so you can find what was said, who said it, and jump straight to the moment it happened.
What you'll find here
Every show gets its own wiki. For each episode there is:
- A summary of what the episode covered.
- Key moments: a timeline of the main segments, each with a timestamp.
- People, companies, products, media and topics that came up, each with its own page.
- Links from the show notes and ones mentioned on air.
- The full transcript, with a timestamp on every line.
The pages connect across episodes. A person's page lists every episode they were mentioned in, with what was said and when, so you can follow a story, a running joke or a recommendation across months of shows.
Every timestamp is clickable. Press one and the episode plays from that exact moment, right in the page.
How it works
- It follows the show's public feed. Each podcast publishes an RSS feed that podcast apps read. WikiTech reads the same feed, so new episodes are picked up automatically soon after they're released.
- It gets a transcript. If the publisher provides a transcript with timestamps, WikiTech uses theirs. If not, it transcribes the episode's audio with speech recognition (the open-source Whisper model), keeping the time of every line.
- AI reads the transcript. A large language model reads the episode section by section and writes the summary and key moments, and picks out the people, companies, products, media, topics and links, each tied to the moment it came up. It's instructed to work only from what's in the transcript, not to add outside facts.
- The pages are joined up. When the same person or company comes up in another episode, it's added to the existing page instead of creating a new one, even if it was spelled differently. Each show has a list of the correct spellings of its hosts' and regulars' names to help with that.
- Everything is searchable. Search looks through the summaries, the wiki pages and every line of every transcript, and each result takes you to the moment it was said.
The audio stays with the podcast
WikiTech doesn't copy or re-host anyone's episodes. The player streams audio straight from the publisher's own servers, the same way a podcast app does. Show artwork, descriptions and show notes come from each podcast's public feed; the artwork is resized for faster loading, and every episode page links back to the show.
A note on accuracy
Almost all of this is automatic, and automation makes mistakes. Speech recognition can mishear a name, and the summaries can miss or misread something. The timestamps are the best way to check: every claim on a page is one click away from the moment it came from. Editors review and correct pages, and a corrected page keeps those corrections when the episode is processed again.
Browse the shows or search every episode from the home page.