Real-time audio stream search and presentation system

A real-time audio stream selection and presentation system, comprising:

• a service comprising a processor, a receiver, a data store of real-time content, a client device, and programming instructions that, when executed, will cause the service to:
• receive, via the receiver, a plurality of audio streams from a plurality of audio content sources via the receiver,
• capture, from each of the audio streams in real time as the audio stream is received, a text segment, wherein each text segment corresponds to a snippet of its corresponding audio stream and includes words spoken or sung in the snippet,
• save each text segment to the data store of real-time content;
• receive, from a client device, a search request comprising one or more keywords,
• access the data store of real-time content to identify text segments that include one or more words that correspond to the one or more keywords,
• select one or more of the text segments as candidate search results, and
• send the candidate search results to the client device;
• and
• an application installed on the client device and additional programming instructions to:
• cause the client device to output one or more user-selectable fields, each of which includes information corresponding to each of the selected text segments in a user-selectable interface by which the user may select the audio content sources for each of the selected text segments,
• receive a selection of one of the user-selectable fields, and
• in response to receiving a selection of one of the user-selectable fields, cause a media player of the client device to access the audio content source and cause an audio output of the client device to play audio content that the audio content source is transmitting at the time of the accessing.

Programming instructions for a real-time audio stream selection and presentation system, comprising:

• a non-transitory computer-readable medium containing programming instructions that, when executed, will cause a real-time audio stream selection and presentation service to:
• receive, via the receiver, a plurality of audio streams from a plurality of audio content sources via the receiver,
• capture, from each of the audio streams, a text segment, wherein each text segment corresponds to a snippet of its corresponding audio stream and includes words spoken or sung in the snippet,
• save each text segment to the data store of real-time content;
• receive, from a client device, a search request comprising one or more keywords,
• access the data store of real-time content to identify text segments that include one or more words that correspond to the one or more keywords,
• select one or more of the text segments as candidate search results, and
• send the candidate search results to the client device;
• and
• an application installed on a client device with additional programming instructions to:
• cause the client device to output one or more user-selectable fields, each of which includes information corresponding to each of the selected text segments in a user-selectable interface by which the user may select the audio content sources for each of the selected text segments,
• receive a selection of one of the user-selectable fields, and
• in response to receiving a selection of one of the user-selectable fields, cause a media player of the client device to access the audio content source and cause an audio output of the client device to play audio content that the audio content source is transmitting at the time of the accessing.