Tapesearch is a podcast search engine that helps you find exact phrases in audio in seconds instead of spending hours listening. It indexes a large open database of podcast transcripts—over 4 million episodes—and shows where a word or phrase appears, including the exact moment in the episode.
Search podcast transcripts
Use Tapesearch to search by keywords, topics, brands, and names, then jump straight to the relevant part of the audio.
- Find specific quotes and mentions across many shows
- Navigate directly to the timestamp where a term is spoken
- Download transcript text for reference or analysis
Alerts and monitoring
Tapesearch supports alerts so you can get notified when selected keywords appear in newly released podcast episodes.
- Track trends and emerging topics
- Monitor brand mentions without manual listening
- Support competitive research and media monitoring
API for developers
Tapesearch also provides an API to integrate podcast and transcript search into your own products and internal tools.
- Connect search to apps, dashboards, and analytics workflows
- Automate insight extraction from large volumes of episodes
