After years of speculation about whether AI hype was justified, most marketers and entrepreneurs have now accepted that AI-enabled technologies are actual.
AI will have a profound impact on our lives and work.
Podcasting is not an exception.
While AI presents many challenges for content creators and marketers, it also offers fantastic benefits.
These benefits are centered around how AI can make our lives easier by creating, repurposing, and marketing our shows to reach our ideal audience, ultimately, our clients and customers.
This article will look at five AI podcasting tools you can use today to produce a better show, reach more people, and spend less money.
AI-Generated podcast show notes
Writing show notes for every episode of your podcast is one of the least enjoyable parts of production.
Many AI writing assistants, such as Capsho, have been developed to take away this tedious and time-consuming task.
Capsho can automatically create show notes for your episode, suggest a title, and create a transcription. It will also pull out quotes and generate social captions.
You’ll need to tweak the AI-generated content manually, but for most hosts, Capsho or other similar tools, such as Swell and Podcast Marketing.ai, will get you 90% there.
AI-Generated podcast promotional assets
Repurposing your show into a short-form video is one of the best ways of increasing awareness.
AI can save you the pain of manually searching through episodes to find the perfect clip.
Viddyo can be used if you already have video footage for your podcast. It will automatically identify, extracts, and caption compelling clips in any video you upload.
The video has many customizable templates and a feature that automatically switches between speakers. This helps keep viewers interested in longer videos.
You don’t need to worry if you do not record videos for your podcast.
Dubb creates unique videos by combining your audio files with AI-generated background animations and transcripts.
AI Podcast Post-Production
We’ve already explored AI tools that can help you repurpose finished episode recordings. Some tools make it easier to create a quality show.
Descript is the oldest and most popular editor. Its features include AI-generated transcription creation, audio cleaning, automatic filler words removal, etc.
Adobe’s Enhance speech, which is currently in beta, transforms any recording (literally) into a finished product of NPR quality.
Enhance Speech is a tool that helps lower the entry barrier for recording equipment, software, and technical knowledge. This means less friction between you and your audience.
AI Voice Generation
AI voice generation is one of the most exciting applications of AI in podcasting.
You might be a blogger who’d love to convert your blog posts into a podcast episode but needs more time.
No problem
With Listnr, you can upload your text and choose your voice. There are currently over 70 languages with accent variations in each language.
Say you want to personalize the experience.
Descript’s Overdub feature offers a variety of post-production tools and editing features, including the ability to train an AI model voice on your voice.
After the model is trained, Overdub can generate new audio content using text. This includes typing a word to replace the one you accidentally spelled during recording.
AI Video Alteration
The last entry on the list may not apply to all podcasters, but it is one of the most innovative AI tools I have seen, mainly if your podcast includes video.
Eye contact with the camera can be an essential factor when it comes to production.
Eye contact is a great way to create a personal and intimate experience for viewers of solo videos. This connection can also be extended to your guests, resulting in better interviews and an improved experience for you and your audience.
You can’t watch the guest’s video and the Zoom call at the same moment.
Most serious video podcasters, and even YouTubers, eventually invest in expensive, bulky teleprompters to solve this problem.
Teleprompters may soon be obsolete with NVIDIA’s Eye Contact tool, part of their broadcast app.
This tool seamlessly edits your video feed while you are taking notes, reading a script, or even reading.
It’s mind-blowing.
Broadcast is currently only available on Windows, but we’ll see more tools of this nature for other operating systems in the near future.
How will AI impact your production workflow?
AI is a hot topic, with many small businesses, marketers, and creators adopting new tools to gain an edge over their competition.
Some kinks still need to be worked out, but it is clear that AI-enabled software can help us produce better content more quickly and at a lower cost than just a few years ago.
This will make you as excited as I am.
We can now spend more time doing the creative and innovative work we are best at, rather than the mundane admin tasks that don’t use our talents or perspective.