Particle, the AI newsreader startup founded by former Twitter engineers, is shifting its focus to a potentially more lucrative idea: indexing the spoken conversations buried in podcasts and making them discoverable. On Wednesday, the company introduced Radar, a podcast search engine that not only transcribes podcast audio but also understands what it means, enabling it to pull out key quotes and highlights.
The solution has business potential, as it’s already attracted interest from hedge funds looking for data that their agents can’t see, explains Particle co-founder and CEO Sara Beykpour.
