Podcast speakers now come with credentials

A podcast quote is only as useful as the person who said it. Was that rate call from a Fed economist or a comedian? Was that AI chip prediction from an engineer or a host who skimmed the earnings call?

We’ve just shipped Speaker Expertise in the Particle Podcast Intelligence API, so you can tell.

• An expertise profile for every speaker. Hosts, guests, panelists, and correspondents each get their occupations, their fields of knowledge, how established their standing is, how senior they are, whether they still practice, and the credential that establishes it, quoted from the public record. Each profile cites the public credential behind it.

• Context on every appearance. For each guest spot, see whether the guest spoke within their field, whether the appearance was mainly promotional, and how the show introduced them.

• Expertise beside every name. Wherever a response names a speaker, it now says what they know, with no extra lookup

• Find credentialed experts. GET /v1/people/expertise?occupation=economists&standing=established lists established economists. Plain words work, so you don’t need occupation codes.

• Hear what experts said about a topic. GET /v1/podcasts/episodes/
search?semantic_search=how+tariffs+will+affect+
inflation&guest_occupation=economists searches transcripts for what economists said about tariffs.

• Track what experts say about a company. GET /v1/podcasts/mentions?entity_id=nvidia&guest_occupation=financial-and-investment-analysts returns what financial analysts said about Nvidia.

• See who’s being booked. GET /v1/people/occupations/
economists/guests ranks the most-booked economists across podcasts.

• Find shows that book real experts. GET /v1/podcasts?guest_occupation=economists&min_established_guest_share=0.8 finds shows where economists are booked, and at least 80% of the guests are established.

• Split share of voice by expertise. GET /v1/podcasts/mentions/share-of-voice?entity_id=nvidia&speakers=guests shows which professions are talking about Nvidia, and how much.

In case you missed it: On Friday we launched Episode Archive Transcription On Demand. You can browse 24 million podcast episodes dating back to the ’90s and get any one transcribed.

One more thing: Particle is now an approved OpenAI plugin, so you can search podcast transcripts, mentions, and speaker expertise right inside ChatGPT.

Questions? Reply to this email or reach out anytime by emailing api@particle.pro.