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Staged 2026-09-28. Living revisions and interconnected notes live in the Bosun PKM Garden.

Time-Aligned Transcript Archives and Podcasting 2.0 Integration

Modern audio syndication extends beyond basic audio files into rich, time-aligned transcripts and chapter markers. Chantey integrates Podcasting 2.0 namespace standards by linking episode transcripts via content-addressed identifiers.

Transcript Invariants

  • JSON Transcript Caching: Time-aligned spoken text anchors to specific millisecond ranges, enabling searchable in-audio navigation.
  • Podcasting 2.0 Compliance: Episode metadata formats seamlessly for modern value-for-value (V4V) streaming and transcript syndication.
  • Offline Searchability: Local transcript files allow instant full-text searching across hours of recorded audio without cloud web services.

Time-aligned transcripts turn passive listening sessions into fully searchable, interactive knowledge repositories.


  • Directus Target: chantey-blog
  • Garden Source Reference: MOC - Chantey Audio Engine, MOC - Bosun PKM Engine, CMP-1002 - W3C Web Annotation Data Models