Product

Radio and podcasts, made queryable.

SA news breaks on the air, not in the press release. Locl indexes English-language talk stations in real time, plus selected SA podcasts as they publish. Search the archive, ask a question in plain English, render a fair-dealing clip — all timestamped to the second the words were spoken.

Search the archive

Hybrid keyword + semantic retrieval over every transcript. Filter by station, show, host, date, or named entity. Every result jumps to the exact second.

Try“repo rate” in the last 7 days12 hits across 4 stations. Top result lands at 09:14 on 702, Mandy Wiener quoting Lesetja Kganyago.

Ask in plain English, get citations

Grounded in real broadcast chunks. Every claim carries a clickable timestamp. Follow-up questions keep the transcript in context. No paraphrase without a source.

Ask“How did 702 frame the BELA Act this week?”Three cited paragraphs across five hosts. Click any sentence to open the audio at that moment.

Render a clip

Set in and out points, render an audio clip with a station-ID sting and a public share URL. Kept short for fair-dealing.

Clip00:34 → 01:12 on Cape TalkPublic share URL with OG metadata. Watermarked with station, show, date, and timecode.
Built into the platform

Never miss the moment

Standing keyword alerts on the live stream and podcast feeds. Boolean queries, per-source filters, and a per-alert cool-off — an email minutes after a topic, name, or brand goes to air, with the clip attached.

See who's buying air

Every ad read is detected and classified as it airs. Brand leaderboard, category share, and daily share-of-voice — plus the actual spots, playable and clippable.

Track who's making news

Every person and organisation in the editorial stream, ranked by how much air they command — with how the coverage leans and the actual moments behind it, playable and clippable.

The story, synthesised

In-depth reports on a running story. Every claim is traced to a broadcast moment and fact-checked against the record, with charts built straight from the transcripts.

Built for the desk

Save searches, share clip collections, and invite your team. Workspace-scoped chat, alerts, and clips keep everyone working off the same desk.

What it isn't
  • We don't re-broadcast upstream audio to listeners.
  • We don't summarise without showing you the source chunk.
  • We don't index Afrikaans or Bantu-language stations yet (v2).
  • We don't sell your queries to anyone.

Track a name, brand, or issue while it's still on air.

Every account starts with a 7-day free trial of Pro — the full archive, alerts, clips, and chat, no card required. R199/month after; cancel anytime.