Podcasts as Data

Creators	Loren Verreyen
Publication date	28 October 2025
Description	This dataset provides bag-of-words (BOW) representations of podcast transcripts derived from a large-scale corpus of English-language podcasts. The corpus spans all 19 Apple Podcasts genres and includes over 15,000 episodes from approximately 1,900 shows. Transcripts were generated using Hugging Face's Distil-Whisper-Large-v3 automatic speech recognition model. Text is lowercased but otherwise unprocessed.
Publisher	Zenodo
Organisations	Faculty of Humanities (FGw) - Amsterdam Institute for Humanities Research (AIHR) Faculty of Humanities (FGw) - Amsterdam Institute for Humanities Research (AIHR) - Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA)
Document type	Dataset
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17469221
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