Steno

Steno is an intelligent transcription and audio discovery engine built to convert podcasts, interviews, and recorded conversations into searchable text documents. The software provides precise speech recognition coupled with deep semantic indexing, allowing researchers, journalists, and avid audio listeners to explore spoken archives effortlessly. By making auditory media fully readable and indexable, the platform bridges the gap between passive listening and active knowledge management.

By leveraging specialized acoustic models and natural language comprehension, Steno differentiates speakers, generates accurate punctuation, and highlights key contextual topics across long recordings. The platform indexes hundreds of popular public podcasts, making spoken insights as discoverable, searchable, and quotable as traditional written web articles and encyclopedias. Interactive playback controls allow users to jump directly to specific audio moments by clicking on corresponding transcript sentences.

Available entirely through an intuitive web-based interface, Steno offers both curated public transcript directories and private audio file processing tools. Visitors can browse public episode transcripts freely, while content creators and corporate teams can subscribe to process custom audio recordings and export timestamped transcripts in various standard formats.