Personal Project • 2025
I love podcasts, but man, I am drowning in them
I had a 47-hour podcast backlog
I subscribe to way too many podcasts. Business, tech, comedy, true crime - my queue was permanently overflowing. I'd mark episodes as played without listening just to see the number go down. But I knew I was missing valuable insights.
Podcast summaries exist, but they're either AI-generated slop or human-written and expensive. What I wanted was a system that could process my specific podcast feeds, extract the parts I actually care about, and deliver it in a format I could skim in 2 minutes.
What if I could 'read' every podcast I subscribe to without listening to a single one?
P3 downloads episodes from RSS feeds, transcribes them locally using Parakeet (blazingly fast on Apple Silicon), and uses Ollama to extract key topics, quotes, and actionable insights. All running on my MacBook, no API costs, no cloud dependencies.
P3 (Parakeet Podcast Processor) - Automated Podcast Intelligence System
An automated system that transforms RSS podcast feeds into structured business intelligence - downloading episodes, transcribing with ML, analyzing with local LLMs, and generating professional outputs.
RSS Monitoring
Configurable podcast feeds with episode limits
Lightning Transcription
Parakeet MLX processes 60 minutes in ~1 second on Apple Silicon
Local LLM Analysis
Ollama-powered extraction of topics, themes, quotes, companies
Content Generation
Blog posts, social media content, email digests
Blazing fast local processing
Audio Download
~30 seconds per episode
Parakeet Transcription
60 minutes -> 1 second on Apple Silicon
Ollama Analysis
Full transcript -> structured summary in ~10 seconds
Total Pipeline
~1 minute for complete processing
From personal tool to content creation engine
The local processing pipeline is working. Now it's about making the outputs more useful.
Topic Clustering
Group insights across multiple episodes and podcasts. See emerging trends before they hit mainstream.
Personal Knowledge Base
Searchable archive of every podcast insight, linked to timestamps for verification.
Newsletter Generation
Weekly digest of the best insights from your podcast feeds, auto-generated and ready to send.
Podcasts are an incredible source of knowledge, but the format is hostile to retention. P3 turns ephemeral audio into permanent, searchable intelligence.