{"id":20023,"date":"2026-01-11T00:09:36","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T22:09:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/community.europeanschoolradio.eu\/?p=20023"},"modified":"2026-01-11T00:09:36","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T22:09:36","slug":"transforming-podcasts-into-structured-knowledge-with-artificial-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/community.europeanschoolradio.eu\/de\/archives\/20023","title":{"rendered":"(English) Transforming Podcasts into Structured Knowledge with Artificial Intelligence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"qtranxs-available-languages-message qtranxs-available-languages-message-de\">Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf <a href=\"https:\/\/community.europeanschoolradio.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20023\" class=\"qtranxs-available-language-link qtranxs-available-language-link-en\" title=\"English\">English<\/a> und <a href=\"https:\/\/community.europeanschoolradio.eu\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20023\" class=\"qtranxs-available-language-link qtranxs-available-language-link-el\" title=\"\u0395\u03bb\u03bb\u03b7\u03bd\u03b9\u03ba\u03ac\">\u0395\u03bb\u03bb\u03b7\u03bd\u03b9\u03ba\u03ac<\/a> verf\u00fcgbar.<\/p><p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"112\" data-end=\"376\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-20024\" src=\"https:\/\/community.europeanschoolradio.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/multimedia-02-00001-ag-1024x651.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"651\" srcset=\"https:\/\/community.europeanschoolradio.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/multimedia-02-00001-ag-1024x651.webp 1024w, https:\/\/community.europeanschoolradio.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/multimedia-02-00001-ag-300x191.webp 300w, https:\/\/community.europeanschoolradio.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/multimedia-02-00001-ag-768x488.webp 768w, https:\/\/community.europeanschoolradio.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/multimedia-02-00001-ag.webp 1109w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/>Podcasts are today one of the fastest-growing forms of digital content. Despite the richness of information they offer, their large-scale exploitation remains challenging, as they consist of unstructured audio that cannot be easily searched, analyzed, or filtered.<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"378\" data-end=\"632\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">As part of our recent research and technological work, we developed a <strong data-start=\"448\" data-end=\"474\">fully automated system<\/strong> that transforms podcasts into <strong data-start=\"505\" data-end=\"565\">structured, analyzable, and recommendation-ready content<\/strong>, leveraging state-of-the-art Artificial Intelligence technologies.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5 data-start=\"639\" data-end=\"675\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">From audio to written information<\/span><\/h5>\n<p data-start=\"677\" data-end=\"739\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Our system is built on an end-to-end processing pipeline that:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul data-start=\"741\" data-end=\"965\">\n<li data-start=\"741\" data-end=\"807\">\n<p data-start=\"743\" data-end=\"807\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">converts audio into text through automatic speech recognition,<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"808\" data-end=\"842\">\n<p data-start=\"810\" data-end=\"842\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">processes and cleans the data,<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"843\" data-end=\"925\">\n<p data-start=\"845\" data-end=\"925\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">analyzes the text using NLP techniques to extract topics and key concepts, and<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"926\" data-end=\"965\">\n<p data-start=\"928\" data-end=\"965\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">recommends relevant content to users.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p data-start=\"967\" data-end=\"1108\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The result is a collection of podcasts that can now be searched and organized based on their actual meaning, rather than just titles or tags.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5 data-start=\"1115\" data-end=\"1164\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Artificial Intelligence with real-world impact<\/span><\/h5>\n<p data-start=\"1166\" data-end=\"1473\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This project is a clear example of how the combination of <strong data-start=\"1224\" data-end=\"1271\">Data Engineering, Machine Learning, and NLP<\/strong> can deliver meaningful solutions to real-world problems. Rather than relying on isolated models, we designed an architecture that operates at scale and is capable of supporting production environments.<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1475\" data-end=\"1688\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">For organizations that manage large volumes of audio or multimedia content, solutions of this kind enable improved content discovery, enhanced user experience, and new opportunities for data-driven value creation.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5 data-start=\"1695\" data-end=\"1735\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A collaboration with tangible results<\/span><\/h5>\n<p data-start=\"1737\" data-end=\"2194\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The development of the system was carried out through close collaboration between a research team from the <strong data-start=\"1844\" data-end=\"1881\">International Hellenic University<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"1886\" data-end=\"1911\">European School Radio<\/strong>, within the framework of the European <strong data-start=\"1950\" data-end=\"1971\">Kids Radio Europe<\/strong> project, combining expertise in data analytics, artificial intelligence, and distributed systems. The outcome is not merely a research study, but a functional technological solution with clear practical and business value. The technology developed by our team is already in production on<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/europeanschoolradio.eu\/\">europeanschoolradio.eu<\/a> <span style=\"color: #000000;\">and<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/youthradio.eu\/\">youthradio.eu<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2201\" data-end=\"2393\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">For those interested in the technical details of the approach, including the methodology and system architecture, the full publication is available here:<\/span><br data-start=\"2354\" data-end=\"2357\" \/><a class=\"decorated-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mdpi.com\/3042-6308\/2\/1\/1\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\" data-start=\"2357\" data-end=\"2393\" data-is-last-node=\"\">https:\/\/www.mdpi.com\/3042-6308\/2\/1\/1<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English und \u0395\u03bb\u03bb\u03b7\u03bd\u03b9\u03ba\u03ac verf\u00fcgbar. Podcasts are today one of the fastest-growing forms of digital<a class=\"btn btn-primary more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/community.europeanschoolradio.eu\/de\/archives\/20023\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20024,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[193,197,262],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcements","category-european-programms","category-kids-radio-europe"],"featured_image":{"href":"https:\/\/community.europeanschoolradio.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/multimedia-02-00001-ag.webp","alternative_text":""},"comments_counter":0,"reactions_counter":{"reaction_bad":"0","reaction_joy":"0","reaction_like":"1","reaction_amazed":"0","reaction_lol":"0","reaction_anger":"0","reaction_cool":"0"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.europeanschoolradio.eu\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.europeanschoolradio.eu\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.europeanschoolradio.eu\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.europeanschoolradio.eu\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.europeanschoolradio.eu\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/community.europeanschoolradio.eu\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.europeanschoolradio.eu\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.europeanschoolradio.eu\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.europeanschoolradio.eu\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.europeanschoolradio.eu\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}