Podcasts are spoken documents across a wide-range of genres and styles, with growing listenership across the world, and a rapidly lowering barrier to entry for both listeners and creators. The great strides in search and recommendation in research and industry have yet to see impact in the podcast space, where recommendations are still largely driven by word of mouth. In this perspective paper, we highlight the many differences between podcasts and other media, and discuss our perspective on challenges and future research directions in the domain of podcast information access.
@article{arxiv.2106.09227,
title = {Current Challenges and Future Directions in Podcast Information Access},
author = {Rosie Jones and Hamed Zamani and Markus Schedl and Ching-Wei Chen and Sravana Reddy and Ann Clifton and Jussi Karlgren and Helia Hashemi and Aasish Pappu and Zahra Nazari and Longqi Yang and Oguz Semerci and Hugues Bouchard and Ben Carterette},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2106.09227},
year = {2021}
}