Ask Claude or ChatGPT about what you’ve heard, or what to hear next.
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VO for ChatGPT
- Install VO from ChatGPT’s plugin directory.
- Sign in with the Google or Apple account you use in the VO app.
- Ask about what you’ve heard, or what to hear next.
VO for Claude
- Open VO in Claude’s connector directory.
- Connect with the Google or Apple account you use in the VO app.
- Ask about what you’ve heard, or what to hear next.
https://mcp.vo.fm/mcpIn ChatGPT, in Developer mode. In Claude, under Customize, Connectors.
How it works
What you can ask, what VO can do in your chat, and how your listening stays private.
Once VO is added, copy a prompt into any chat.
Find the exact moment
Ask about a half-remembered point and get the quote, and the second it was said.
Search my VO listening for what was said about [topic]. Quote the three strongest moments word for word, each with the episode, the podcast and the link to the second. End by telling me which one to replay first.
Get ready for what’s next
Before a meeting, commute or workout, the right episodes go straight to Listen Later.
I have an investor call at 2pm. Recommend three episodes I haven’t heard with fundraising advice, and add them to my VO Listen Later list with where to start.
Follow up on a lead
A name comes up at work, and VO finds the interview worth hearing.
Search the VO catalog for episodes where [guest] talks about [topic]. List the best three with the show and a vo.fm link, and tell me which ones I have already heard.
Recap my week
A week of commutes and runs, turned into the ideas worth keeping.
Recap my last week of listening in VO: which episodes I played, what I kept coming back to, and the two or three ideas worth remembering, each with a link to the moment.
Share a moment
Something you saved, with the link to the second.
Pull the moments I saved in VO from the episode I listened to most recently and draft a short message I can send a friend, with links to the two best moments.
Eight tools: six read your listening, two write only to your Listen Later list. None of them plays anything, or deletes anything beyond a Listen Later entry.
What I heard on this topic
get_listening_contextWhat you heard or saved that bears on the topic of the conversation: a few items, each with a link to the second, or nothing when nothing strong was found.
ReadFind something I heard
find_in_listening_historyFind one specific thing you heard or saved: a claim, a quote, a name, a moment you half remember, with a link to the second it was said.
ReadSummarize my listening
summarize_listeningWhat you listened to and saved: every episode in a window with how much you heard, a recap with your listening notes and moments, and what is in your Listen Later list.
ReadGet one episode, heard or not
get_episodeThe whole episode chapter by chapter, each marked heard or not yet heard, where to pick up, your saved moments, your listening notes, and on request the exact words of any part, or the places where a name or a term is said, marked heard or not heard yet.
ReadFind an episode or show by name
search_catalogFind one episode or show in the public VO podcast catalog by name, host or guest.
ReadRecommend what to hear next
recommend_what_to_hearEpisodes worth hearing next, built from your ask and your listening, leaving out what you already heard.
ReadAdd picks to my Listen Later
add_to_listen_laterAdds the episodes you said yes to into your Listen Later list in VO, each with a reason and where to start.
WriteRemove an episode from my Listen Later
remove_from_listen_laterTakes one episode out of your Listen Later list. Nothing else changes.
WriteSign-in
OAuth, in your browser, with Google or Apple. Your assistant never sees your password, and nothing is pasted into a chat. It receives a short-lived token that works only on the connector tools, which read your listening and write only to your Listen Later list.
Scope
Your own listening only: what you heard, the moments you saved, your listening notes, and the public VO catalog. Parts you did not hear come only as a chapter-by-chapter gist, never word for word, and never anyone else’s listening.
Logging
We record that a tool was called, whether it worked and how long it took. We do not log what you asked, what the tools returned, or any episode text, note or saved-moment content.
Pause anytime
In the VO app, go to Settings, and under Sync your listening switch an assistant off. Switch it back on without connecting again.
The full detail is in section 4 of our privacy policy.
My assistant finds nothing
Either the account is new, or you signed in with a different account from the one you use in the VO app. The connector finds your listening through your account’s email, and a different Google or Apple account starts a new, empty VO account. When the account is empty, your assistant can tell you which email it is signed in with.
I signed in with the wrong account
Remove VO in your assistant’s connector settings, add it again, and sign in with the same Google or Apple account you use in the VO app. It does not need to match the email of your assistant account.
I use Sign in with Apple in VO
Choose Continue with Apple on the VO sign-in page and use the same Apple ID. Hide My Email works too: Apple gives VO the same relay address in the app and on the connector.
Do I need a VO account first?
No. The first time you connect, a free VO account is created from the email you sign in with. It starts empty: download the VO app, sign in with that same Google or Apple account and listen to an episode, and your assistant can recall it straight away.
The sign-in page shows an error
Close it and connect again from your assistant. If it keeps failing, email [email protected] with the time it happened and the assistant you used.
How do I disconnect?
To pause it, open the VO app, go to Settings, and under Sync your listening switch that assistant off. It can no longer read your listening until you switch it back on, and you do not need to connect again. To remove it for good, remove VO in your assistant’s connector settings. To delete an account created through the connector, email [email protected].
My assistant says syncing is turned off
Syncing with that assistant is turned off in the VO app. Open the VO app, go to Settings, and under Sync your listening switch that assistant on. The assistant can use VO again straight away, without connecting or signing in again.
What does VO log?
For each connector request we log whether sign-in succeeded, which tool was called, whether it worked, how long it took, and the name and version of the assistant. For the tools that search your listening or recommend what to hear, we also keep the topic the assistant sent and which episodes and passages VO returned, for up to 90 days, to improve what VO finds and recommends for you. We do not keep what the tools returned in full, any episode text, note or saved-moment content, or the rest of your conversation. Details are in section 4 of our privacy policy.
Not covered here? Email [email protected].