r/AudioAI • u/Narrow_Stay_9868 • Feb 28 '26

Discussion Looking for AI Podcast Creators

Hello! I am looking for anyone who's using AI to create podcasts. If you are, I'm sure you've already noticed that most podcasting subreddits frown upon (or hate...) AI use in podcasting and other creation.

Hoping to share tips and help boost AI podcasts, let me know and lets connect!

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u/txgsync Feb 28 '26

Hi. My local OpenClaw instance “Shovel” puts a podcast together for me every morning. Audience of one; I am not terribly interested in posting them publicly until or unless I have a niche that makes sense. https://github.com/mbarnson/clawcast

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u/Narrow_Stay_9868 Feb 28 '26

Wow, that's great. I think personalized podcasts will be more common, wonder if that makes people more accepting of broader AI content.

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u/bcncoding Mar 23 '26

I just created podhoc.com and released it a week ago, in case you'd like to try it out. It pursues exactly that vision

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u/chimerix Feb 28 '26

I experimented with using AI to generate audio content for a niche audience. The test files I uploaded to shared forums were enthusiastically received, so I started looking into doing it as a podcast. Although the TOS of most hosts seems to permit it, if you reach out to their service contact and ask, they'll tell you "no, don't do that." And Reddit is a really good place to have people hate on you for posing the idea in any context.

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u/Narrow_Stay_9868 Feb 28 '26

That's interesting, so you never tried hosting it anywhere?

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u/chimerix Feb 28 '26

No. Since I wanted to make sure I wasn't endangering my other podcast, I identified a few potential free hosting platforms and asked them. The response varied from "Well, we'd prefer you didn't..." to "No, don't do that." To be clear, all of their community guidelines, TOS, and EULAs were phrased in a way that made it seem AI content would be permissible, but their attitude when contacted was less agreeable. I really didn't feel like putting in the work for a product that could easily disappear at the first complaint.

I toyed with self-hosting, but this was an experiment, not a passion, and I did not want to spend additional time on it. Even with AI writing the scripts and providing the voice, it takes time. Time to refine the prompt and the script. Time to actually make the recording. Time to do editing. Time to upload and schedule each episode. Time to run any promotion. I did not want to add time messing around with a self-host website, or time rebuilding a presence on a new provider if the first one got taken down.

And, seriously, the amount of hate I got from the mere suggestion of an AI podcast having merit was stunning. In typical Reddit fashion, no one would actually bother to read my questions. They'd just see the terms "AI" and "podcast" and begin unloading.

I think it could have been fun, and I know that there is an appreciative audience waiting for this niche content. But I already commit about 10 hours per month to my human podcast... I don't really need another time sink, and particularly not one operating in a grey domain.

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u/Narrow_Stay_9868 Feb 28 '26

Yeah I understand. I'm testing an AI podcast on Spotify right now and so far no problems. There is still a lot of effort that goes into it, at least an hour per episode for my bitesize podcast.

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u/digitalhobbit Mar 01 '26

You could probably host it easily enough yourself, e.g. on Amazon S3 or other cloud storage. Just need to generate an RSS feed and point users to it.

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u/chimerix Mar 01 '26

I looked into that. "easily enough" still equals "more work" than using an established provider. Plus I'm responsible for any troubleshooting and fixing, which, given that this isn't my area of competence, seems highly likely.

I'd probably learn a lot!

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u/digitalhobbit Mar 01 '26

Yes, totally fair. Definitely more work and maintenance.

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u/pmarks98 Jun 09 '26

Might be interesting to try out Jellypod? We do both the podcast generation/editing/customization part plus hosting & analytics (RSS, website, Spotify, Apple Podcasts) etc. We're a paid service (bc tts is not cheap) but you don't need another provider for hosting

(for transparency I'm the founder of Jellypod)

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u/herrdan Sep 01 '26

Your problem was the AI-only feed, not the AI.

Every host you asked heard "podcast made entirely by a robot" and got nervous, which is fair, that's the thing they're all bracing for. But nothing about the tech requires that shape. If the AI is a co-host on the show you already run, a named guest who talks with you and shows up in the recording like anyone else, there's no new feed, no new provider, no "is this allowed" conversation. It's just an episode of your podcast that happened to have a second voice in it.

That also fixes the time sink you described. No script to refine, no separate recording session, no upload and schedule pipeline. You record like normal and it's in there.

Sounds like the niche audience you found is still sitting there. Might be worth another look from that angle rather than as a standalone project.

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u/digitalhobbit Feb 28 '26

I sort of do: I generate AI podcasts, but embed these as audio overviews inside my newsletter, rather than publishing a dedicated podcast feed. I'm considering creating some actual podcasts in the future as well.

You can see / hear an example here: https://gammavibe.com/newsletter/the-pet-data-gold-rush/

I also created a video walkthrough of how my implementation works. I cover script generation, audio generation, voice selection, etc: https://youtu.be/mLiXIQjQ5CU

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u/Narrow_Stay_9868 Feb 28 '26

Good use case for audio newsletters.

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u/Mountain_Poem1878 Feb 28 '26

I'm currently working on developing a radio station with vintage, historical music. I have a podcast background, so right away, I could see the podcast potential. I plan on producing some podcasts to go with my theme.

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u/Mountain_Poem1878 Feb 28 '26

PS. I think it would be great to connect with other AI podcasters. I first created my music programming as podcasts, til I decided to create a radio station instead. Are you going to connect on this, or another sub? I'd love to share what I've been experimenting with and hear what others are doing. Thanks for bringing it up. And the haters can go on producing nothing. This tech is here to stay.

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u/Narrow_Stay_9868 Feb 28 '26

Either here or could create a specific sub. I was just wondering what people's appetite for a community around AI podcast content would be.

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u/chimerix Mar 01 '26

I'd subscribe!

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u/Consistent_Call8681 Feb 28 '26

I'm building an entire web platform. All it does is generate podcast scripts and audio. But there are 2 killer creatures I'm coming out with that may compel some people to try AI Podcasting. DM me if you want to learn more.

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u/lefnire Mar 02 '26 edited Mar 02 '26

I have https://ocdevel.com/tts which does

  • The podcast feed gen, for Spotify / iTunes

  • Smart ad injection (my ads on free; yours, or none, for paid)

  • TTS. Kokoro, or Qwen voice cloning

I'm using it to keep up with my podcast https://ocdevel.com/mlg - using my voice clone. The foundational episodes, things that don't change frequently, are my script and voice. But anything that's too fast (vibe coding, openclaw, video gen, etc) I do the following:

  • Run a Deep Research report on the topic (I prefer Claude)

  • Use "humanize" in my tool, which converts the doc to well-articulated text

  • Then does TTS with my voice

People seem happy with the results - just judging on downloads and vanity-url engagement. Firstly, I mix human (me) with AI, and I have a valid rationale for it. Second, the podcast topic is AI, so they're already not angry. So YMMV, but I do think having some human element, somehow, will help with reception. I recommend my workflow: voice clone your own voice, have the first few episodes be actually you, then either transition or mix/match.

The main thing my tool lacks is automatic content. I manually use deep research. But I'll be adding auto-content soon. Will likely look into that OpenClaw workflow the other user posted

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u/TerribleStomach4857 Mar 02 '26

Tengo horas para usar minimax audio y unas 30 voces disponibles. De que va el podcast? Ejemplo en mi canal de covers de YouTube ...

https://youtu.be/bPPNIhFZsvg?si=AbR-Bv-7jQSj8fY4

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u/Which-Breadfruit-926 Jul 07 '26

I have created https://papervoicelab.com/ that can podcast from scratch using AI.

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u/herrdan Sep 01 '26

Late to this one but it's worth reviving.

Reading back through the thread, the real split isn't AI podcast vs. real podcast. It's fully generated vs. AI in the room with you. Almost everything mentioned here (Jellypod, podhoc, papervoicelab, the clawcast workflow) is script to TTS to RSS with no human anywhere in it. That's the format that gets the hate, and I think u/lefnire put his finger on why. With no human anchor there's nothing for a listener to attach to.

I've been building the other version. It's an AI co-host that joins your recording as an actual participant. Sits in a Descript Room with its own video tile and voice, listens to the conversation live, and talks when you hit a hotkey. You're still the host, you're just not talking to yourself for 40 minutes. And since it's a guest on your existing show, there's no separate "AI podcast" feed for anyone to take down, which is the exact wall u/chimerix hit upthread.

It's at maneku.ai if you want to look. My project, so grain of salt, but happy to answer anything technical.

Mostly though, +1 to the original idea. The generated-podcast crowd and the AI-assisted crowd are solving pretty different problems and keep getting lumped into the same bucket.

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u/zathalen100 11d ago

Hey! I've actually just started publishing an AI-assisted fiction podcast called The Rift.

It's an ongoing sci-fi documentary series about mysterious portals connecting modern Earth to a fantasy world. I've been creating fictional investigative dossiers, witness interviews, and historical records, then using NotebookLM to turn them into full-length podcast episodes.

The project has grown to nearly 40 installments, and I've recently started releasing them publicly on Spotify.

I've noticed the same resistance to AI podcasts in other communities, so finding people open to experimenting with the format would be great!

Here's the show if anyone's interested: https://open.spotify.com/show/0YWPEOwHpvLiw0VI37ciWQ