Wish there was a service where I can plug in the URL of this podcast to get a Whisper transcript, separated into paragraphs, and with headlines for skimming. So I can decide whether or not to invest an hour of my time to actually listen to the whole thing.

You can search here:

https://www.happyscribe.com/public

Didn't find Hidden Brain through a quick search, maybe it's there and I didn't have enough patience.

I'd love to know if there are other services similar to happyscribe.com .. anyone know any?

It adds so much value to a podcast to be able to search for words/text and read instead of just listening.

Also, if you want to add your own thoughts to something that was said, with a transcription you can simply make a PDF and attach an annotation or highlight sentences.

If like me, you like to listen to podcasts and take notes and add your own thoughts, and if you have found some handy tools for that or come up with your custom convenient workflows, I'd really like to know.

Thanks for the recommendation. Didn't know that service.

Why are you asking for similar services? What's something that you feel is missing on this one? If you could change it or add functionality, what would you change or add?

They only have a selection of all podcasts.

I once used their trial tool, to transcribe some episode. The functionality is good, but it is commercial. I wouldn't use it often enough to justify signing up.

So if there were some similar tool where I don't have to sign up to some paid service just to transcribe one episode here or there, that'd be neat.

Read of Whisper in the comments. I like that it doesn't appear to require some API keys to use their model. But I'd rather not install yet another Python package that likely comes with a whole bunch of new dependencies.

https://github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp

No dependencies, no Python, runs efficiently on the CPU.