Tapesearch is a search engine over podcast transcripts – more than five million and growing – letting you find where something was said and go directly to that point in the audio.
Podcasts are the largest body of public commentary that nobody can search. Everything said on them is effectively invisible: a competitor’s strategy explained at length on an industry show, a founder discussing a launch, your own brand mentioned in passing – all of it unreachable unless someone happened to listen. Text and video have been searchable for decades; audio has quietly become the medium where things get said precisely because it is not indexed.
Jumping to the audio timestamp matters as much as the search itself, since a transcript match without the surrounding delivery frequently misleads about tone and intent. Two things worth knowing: search reliability is bounded by transcription accuracy, so names and technical terms are where matches are missed, and coverage depends on which shows are indexed rather than being the whole medium.
