A watch folder allows to automatically start productions using a preset, whenever new files appear on the selected external service. Metadata, chapter marks, and cover images will be imported from input files.
Watch folders can be used to set up automatic post processing workflows, similar to Zapier, without any coding or API scripting.

Photo by Colin Lloyd.

How it Works

Let's take Dropbox, for example. While you can add Dropbox as an external service to Auphonic and process files from your Dropbox on demand, a watch folder monitors your Dropbox and, as soon as you ...

You run a podcast hosting service (or similar) and want to integrate it as publishing target within Auphonic? That's now possible using the Auphonic API.

Publishing / External Services section of a Production: integrate your service as an additional target.
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You can now connect your custom service or app (podcast hosting company, audio publishing platform, video tool, file service, etc.) as an External Service to Auphonic.
Then all Auphonic users will see your service at our External Services Page and will be able to reference it in any Production or Preset in the section Publishing / ...

We are pleased to announce the integration of Microsoft's cloud service OneDrive as External Service for incoming and outgoing file transfers to/from Auphonic.
OneDrive is tightly integrated with the Microsoft Office 365 productivity suite and offers 5 GB of free storage in its Basic plan, with multiple paid plans for more storage and features available.

The integration is very similar to our Dropbox or Google Drive interface and is described below.

Connect Your OneDrive Account to Auphonic

To start using OneDrive with your Auphonic account, you must first set it up as an external service: go to our ...

Zapier is a tool that allows users to connect and automate services without any coding.
So far, if you wanted to start a new Auphonic production or retrieve the results of a finished production, you had to login to the Auphonic website, connect with one of our external services, or know how to code and use the Auphonic API.
With Zapier, in just a few clicks, you can set up your email account, a Dropbox watch folder, your podcast host, your Twitter account and many more web-based services to interact with Auphonic.

For example, it’s possible to ...

Large file uploads in a web browser are problematic, even in 2018. If working with a poor network connection, uploads can fail and have to be retried from the start.

At Auphonic, our users have to upload large audio and video files, or multiple media files when creating a multitrack production. To minimize any potential issues, we integrated various external services which are specialized for large file transfers, like FTP, SFTP, Dropbox, Google Drive, S3, etc.

To further minimize issues, as of today we have also released resumable and chunked direct file uploads in the web browser to ...

Facebook is not only a social media giant, the company also provides valuable tools for broadcasting. Today we release a connection to Facebook, which allows to use the Facebook tools for video/audio production and publishing within Auphonic and our connected services.

• Use Facebook for live streaming, then import, process and distribute the audio/video with Auphonic.
• Post your Auphonic audio or video productions directly to the news feed of your Facebook Page or User.
  
  Update 2021:
  Unfortunately Facebook no longer allows us to export videos directly to your user ...

Auphonic allows you to add external services to distribute processed and encoded result files to many hosting/storage providers or to your own servers.
We released an interface to Amazon S3 four years ago, now we open our S3 interface also for other S3-compatible storage providers like Google Cloud Storage, DreamHost and many more. They provide affordable, reliable and high-performance podcast/media file hosting.

All supported storage providers can be used for incoming and outgoing file transfers to/from Auphonic.
In this blog post, we will first describe the setup of a Generic S3 Account, then the integration of ...

After an initial private beta phase, we are happy to open the Auphonic automatic speech recognition integration to all of our users!

Our WebVTT-based audio player with search in speech recognition transcripts and exact speaker names.

We built a layer on top of multiple engines to offer affordable speech recognition in over 80 languages. This blog post also includes 3 complete examples in English and German.

Search within Audio and Video

One of the main problems of podcasts, audio and video is search.

Speech recognition is an important step to make audio searchable:
Although automatically generated ...

Podcasts are great, but they have a discovery problem – the technology to change that is available.
Today we release a private beta version of automatic speech recognition integrated in Auphonic.

UPDATE:
Please read our new and updated blog post Make Podcasts Searchable (Auphonic Speech To Text Public Beta) !

Automatic Speech Recognition in Auphonic

Since recently, most automatic speech recognition services were really expensive or the quality was very bad. Broadcasting corporations spent big money to generate automatic transcripts to search within audio.
That changed, there are a couple of affordable (even free) services available now, which can ...

As of today, we also support Google Drive as an external service for incoming and outgoing file transfers to/from Auphonic!
The integration is very similar to our Dropbox interface and described below.

How to Use your Google Drive in Auphonic

First you have to connect your Google Drive account with Auphonic: go to our services page and click the GoogleDrive button. Then you will be redirect to Google and have to accept that Auphonic can access your Google Drive.

To process files with Auphonic (incoming file transfers), you must put them into the folder 'auphonic' in your Google ...