AI Tips to Make Your Podcast Super Efficient
Welcome to Rethink Audio’s newly created series where we’ll be introducing you to developments in the world of podcasting - hints and tips to ensure a successful podcast launch.
Senior Producer Ollie Peart on three great AI tips to make your podcasts super efficient.
At Rethink Audio we’re big fans of Descript, which has changed the way we make podcasts and cut production time significantly - whilst still maintaining the high quality we provide for our brands.
Converting your audio into text makes the task of editing podcasts much faster
Descript makes your audio searchable. Imagine being faced with a 1hr+ recording that needs a light edit, and you know from your notes that we need to remove a cough when they talk about salads.
So search salads... and then remove the cough.
In the past this meant scanning through acres and acres of audio, listening out very carefully for what you were after. But when audio is transcribed, you can search for what you're looking for in the same way you would Google. Cool eh?
2. Clean up your audio FAST
Which plugin or compressor is right for your show? Each one is different and can subtly change how listeners feel about your show.
Descript’s Studio Sound function helps remove many of those quandaries, with tools that can completely remove background noise, even loud building noises, cars and trains, and make the audio clearer than a Canadian lake.
3. Ai voice generation
Tired of recording draft VOs for your documentary projects? Descript can create placeholder AI voices into your edits so you can hear how the podcast might sound. It allows you to make script edits, get an idea of how the audio might flow and make the changes before you get yourself into an expensive studio. And the voices are getting better by the day.
(I'm not talking about creating voices that can present podcasts, even though there are some exceptional examples see Google Notebook LM).
All this said, AI in audio production is a tool, not a replacement for podcasters. The brilliant thing about podcasts and what makes them such an exciting and growing medium, is the connection hosts have with their listeners. It is perhaps one of the most personal and intimate of all the media outlets, even radio. A one on one experience with the people you admire most. Not that it seals the deal, but millions of loyal Joe Rogan fans listening to him speak to Trump, and then endorsing him, was *very* powerful.
