Podcast Creator Studio

Behind the scenes

Five chapters. Zero guesswork.

The exact clicks — no marketing sleight of hand. Cast a character from history, build a show from the open web or a book on your shelf, turn it into an animated video, and share it.

The Cast Impersonate a historical or fictional figure Turn Marie Curie or Sherlock Holmes into a co-host in about thirty seconds.

01 · CHARACTERS RAIL

Open Characters in the sidebar and click ✨ Impersonate a real person.

02 · NAME THEM

Type any real or fictional name — Marie Curie, Sherlock Holmes, Malcolm X. Wikipedia is looked up in the background.

03 · REVIEW THE DRAFT

The active LLM proposes their expertise, disposition, vocabulary, and emotional register — and offers their Wikipedia portrait as an avatar (opt-in). Edit anything.

04 · SAVE

Your new character is available to any show. Voice cloning stays a separate opt-in — never automatic.

The Wire Build a show from the open web Pick sites, set a freshness window, and generate an episode from today's news.

01 · NEW PODCAST

Click New podcast, name it (Latest Financial News), and pick a Focus so the agent knows what to look for.

02 · SOURCES · SCRAPE URLS

On the Sources tab, keep Source mode on Scrape URLs. Tick source categories (Bloomberg, Reuters, FT…) or paste your own URLs — one per line.

03 · TIME WINDOW

Set Time window to Past 24 hours so nothing stale slips in. Optional: turn on Deep crawl to follow same-domain links.

04 · CAST + GENERATE

Assign your hosts on the Cast tab and press Generate. Fact-checked script → voiced audio → RSS-ready feed, in a few minutes.

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The Library Adapt a book (or paper, or report) into an episode Drag a PDF, choose "uploads only", and let two hosts discuss it end to end.

01 · NEW PODCAST

Create the show as before — The Fabric of Reality: episode by episode.

02 · SOURCES · UPLOADED FILES ONLY

Switch Source mode to Uploaded files only. The web is now off-limits — nothing outside your library leaks into the script.

03 · DROP THE FILE

Drag a .pdf, .docx or .txt onto the Uploaded materials card. Chunked and indexed in seconds; wait for indexed.

04 · TWO HOSTS · GENERATE

Put two characters on the Cast tab — say, the author and a challenger — and generate. You get a chapter-by-chapter dialogue grounded strictly in the book.

The Screen Turn an episode into an animated explainer Charts, moving diagrams and your own slides appear the moment the hosts say them.

01 · GENERATE → ANIMATION

Open the show's Generate tab, then Animation, and tick Animate every new episode automatically.

02 · PICK THE DEPTH

From Layman — plain headlines and simple diagrams — to Academic: the real mechanism, matrices and annotated equations. Choose a look, an entrance style, and a screen split into up to four sections.

03 · BRING YOUR OWN

Drop in pictures, PDF pages, slides or Visio drawings and a music bed, and say things like "our logo for the first 5 seconds". Or upload a video whose style you like.

04 · GENERATE FULL

The run ends with an animated MP4. Each visual starts on the line where its idea is spoken, and a number or quote appears only if a host said it. Fine-tune any episode on the timeline, then Render.

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🎬 Render this episode's video →

The Audience Share it — podcast apps, email, social, your team Publish a feed, email an episode, post it anywhere, or let a group of colleagues listen.

01 · PUBLISH THE FEED

On the Share tab press 📡 Publish RSS, then Distribute… to submit it to Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube Music, Amazon and Pocket Casts — as audio, or as video.

02 · LET YOUR TEAM LISTEN

Under People and groups, pick a group of Podcast Creator Studio users and press Let this group listen. The show appears in their studio, read-only — videos and Live Talk included.

03 · EMAIL IT

Announce an episode → Email it: tick saved recipients or an email group and press Send email. Everyone gets their own copy, with listen, watch and transcript links.

04 · POST IT

Post it or send a link: WhatsApp, Facebook, LinkedIn, X, Telegram or iMessage — or a ready-made message for Slack and Discord.

Start free — build your first show Free for now — no credit card. Bring your own API key or use the studio's built-in AI.

A complete production system — not a script generator

Most tools stop at "an AI wrote something." This runs the whole pipeline — research, writing, casting, voicing, fact-checking, animated video, post-production, publishing and sharing, and cost accounting — with real depth in every stage.

Research & grounding

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Your sources + the open web

websites, RSS feeds, and your own uploads — books, PDFs, notes — are retrieved and grounded into every script; or run knowledge-only / uploads-only when you prefer.

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Deep relevance crawling

goes far beyond a single page: it walks links to a depth you set, LLM-judges each page against your topic, and ingests only what's actually relevant.

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Fact-checked, with source rules

every claim is verified against your sources; unsupported statements are flagged and rewritten — and a minimum-sources rule you control refuses to run on too-thin material.

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Freshness windows

hour- or day-precise recency windowing keeps each episode to material inside your chosen timeframe, so nothing stale ever slips in.

Writing & cast

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Best-in-class AI, your choice

Claude, GPT, Gemini, DeepSeek, Perplexity, Mistral or local models write in your hosts' voices and your format — with an active→fallback→backup chain so a provider outage never kills a run.

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Designed characters

build hosts with any expertise and dialed-in intellect, emotion, curiosity, and disposition — or base one on a real public figure in a click.

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Built-in AI Assist

an assistant that sets up podcasts and characters for you, answers questions about the app, and can act on your behalf — by typing or by voice.

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Multilingual

auto-translate and re-voice the same episode across many languages, with per-language dialect control.

Voices

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Lifelike voices

premium text-to-speech with natural crosstalk and overlap, audio tags, and real emotional delivery.

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Multi-provider voice cloning

clone a voice on ElevenLabs, XTTS, or F5 — the studio resolves the right engine per speaker and language and automatically switches clone providers when one is unavailable.

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Local & self-hosted voices

run entirely on your own box — free edge_tts, or self-hosted XTTS / F5-TTS / Piper — no cloud and no per-character fees.

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Bring your own keys (BYOK)

your own keys for both the writing AI (OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepSeek, Gemini, Perplexity, Mistral) and the voices (ElevenLabs, Azure, Google, OpenAI) — pay each provider at cost, no markup, no lock-in. Encrypted at rest; or start free on the studio's built-in AI.

Video & animation

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Animated explainer videos

every episode also comes as an MP4 with your hosts and a waveform. Turn on animation and it becomes an explainer: headlines, charts, big numbers, quotes and moving diagrams appear the moment a host says them — through to the last minute.

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From layman to lecture hall

choose how deep the visuals go: plain headlines and simple diagrams, step-by-step builds with graphs and 3-D views, or the real mechanism — matrices, attention, and annotated equations.

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Your slides, your style

add pictures, PDF pages, PowerPoint slides or Visio drawings, and the planner places each where it fits. Or upload a video whose look you like — it learns the mix of charts and diagrams and draws yours fresh, never copied.

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A timeline you control

speech, visuals, text and sound lanes like a video editor: split the screen into up to four sections, six entrance styles, four looks, music ducked under the voices, and a preview with sound — plus a template for every episode.

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Chess boards & card tables

a chess show gets a real board that plays each move as it's said; Durak, poker and Preferans tables lay down every card and bid — each one checked against the rules.

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Nothing invented on screen

a number or a quote appears only if a host actually said it nearby, quotes are always the host's exact words, and anything that doesn't pass is left out and listed for you.

Share & publish

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Publish to podcast apps

one click turns your episodes into a public RSS feed with cover art, and Distribute walks you through Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube Music, Amazon, Overcast and Pocket Casts. New episodes arrive on their own.

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Video podcast feeds

publish the feed as video — or video whenever an episode has one — and the animated MP4 goes out as the episode, with the audio alongside. Switch any time; nothing gets re-listed.

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Email an episode

send any episode to saved recipients or an email group. Each person gets their own copy, with listen, watch and transcript links in every language — plus a subscribe link once your feed is live.

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Post it on social

one-click sharing to WhatsApp, Facebook, LinkedIn, X, Telegram and iMessage, or a ready-to-paste message for Slack and Discord. Once your feed is published, the links never expire.

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Share with your team

let a group of Podcast Creator Studio users listen: the show appears in their own studio with every episode and video, and they can start a Live Talk with its hosts — but only you can edit it.

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Hand a show to a colleague

give another studio user their own editable copy — cast, sources, segments and settings — while your original stays untouched. Their existing characters are reused, never overwritten.

Produce & operate

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Timeline post-production

a two-lane timeline editor — trim, cut, carve, ripple, and layer background music with ducking and fades.

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Scheduled & self-publishing

pick a cadence; finished episodes are produced, emailed to you, and published as a subscribable RSS feed ready for Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and beyond.

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Real cost tracking

every run logs its true cost — LLM tokens, TTS characters, and any fees — per episode, with provider fallbacks surfaced, so you always know what a show costs.

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Backups & health

automatic backups of your studio — configs, characters, and data — plus a health panel to monitor and restore.

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Self-hosted & private

your sources, voices, keys, and listener data stay on your own infrastructure — nothing leaves your instance.

Frequently asked questions

The questions people ask before their first episode.

Is it free?

Yes — Podcast Creator Studio is free for now: every feature, no plans, no plan limits, and no credit card. If you use your own AI or voice API keys, those providers bill you directly for what you use.

Can I turn a PDF or book into a podcast?

Yes. Upload PDFs, documents, or notes as sources and they're grounded into the script via retrieval, the same way web pages and RSS feeds are — the hosts discuss what's actually in your material, not a generic summary.

Does the AI fact-check what it writes?

Yes. Every claim is checked against your sources; unsupported statements are flagged and rewritten. You control a minimum-sources rule, and a freshness window keeps each episode to material inside your chosen recency range.

Can I use my own OpenAI, Anthropic, or ElevenLabs API key?

Yes — bring your own key (BYOK) for both the AI that writes scripts (OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepSeek, Gemini, Perplexity, Mistral) and the voices that speak them (ElevenLabs). You pay each provider directly at cost, with no markup and no lock-in. Or start free with the studio's built-in AI.

Is my data private? Where does it run?

Podcast Creator Studio is self-hosted — your sources, voices, and listener data stay on your own infrastructure. API keys are encrypted at rest and never leave your instance.

Can it publish episodes in other languages?

Yes. The same episode can be auto-translated and re-voiced across many languages from a single generation run.

Can it publish on a schedule automatically?

Yes. Set a cadence and finished episodes are produced and emailed to you automatically, with an RSS feed your listeners can subscribe to in any podcast app.

Can it make a video of my podcast?

Yes. Every episode also comes as an MP4 video with your hosts and a waveform. Turn on animation and it becomes an explainer: charts, big numbers, quotes, moving diagrams and your own slides appear the moment the hosts talk about them, at the depth you choose — from plain headlines to academic notation. A number or quote is shown only if a host actually said it, and you can fine-tune any episode on a timeline.

How do I share an episode?

From the Share tab: publish an RSS feed for Apple Podcasts, Spotify and other apps (as audio or video), email an episode to your recipients or email groups, post it to WhatsApp, Facebook, LinkedIn, X or Slack, or let a group of Podcast Creator Studio users listen to the show — they can play every episode and video, but only you can edit it.

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