Archive.fm

Podcasting, like the internet as a whole, is a set of technologies based on interoperability. Platformication of internet broadcasting are considered benificial to some, but are often harmful as a whole because they obscure feed URLs, restrict player access to on-platform tools, and alter or obscure content as desired by the platform.

Platforms often bring an audience for your content in exchange for the ownership of it. This project seeks to amplify the work of the audio creators of the internet without excising a tax on the creator income.

Each month, at least 300,000 broadcasts are registered on feeds all around the internet. This is a tomb of opinions, critiques, sentiment, and human character which is deeply relevant to the cultural moment in which it was produced.

By providing free transcriptions to all podcasters, this site attempts to:

• Increase the accessibily of audio-first content published online. Without transcripts, hearing impaired and deaf people cannot directly, individually be exposed to what the world is saying.

• Increase discoverability through content search tools and meta analysis of created content. This is intended to increase public utility.

• Where possible, to provide a digital archive of the audio broadcast content which is being created at this moment in humanity. Unfortunately, at this moment that archive only extends to transcriptions.

Dynamically injected advertising makes it unpredictable to syndicate broadcasts. Transcribing and translating content becomes unreliable because it cannot be reliably stored.

This site relies on a consistent file delivery in order to maintain synchronization between transcribed text snippets and audio. In order to keep storage costs low, audio files themselves are not archived.

When advertising is present in the original source material, this poses no problem. When advertising is injected as a broadcast is downloaded, each download of the broadcast has differing timestamps and the ability to accurately link the transcript to the audio is lost.

When a search is performed and a transcript matches, the audio cannot be reliably presented.

Email the admin from the address attached to the podcast feed under the author field to start a conversation about delisting or restricting content.

Send an email to the admin with a link to the broadcast, and it'll be evaluated for removal.

Removal will not be considered for merely objectionable political, religious, or personal preferences.