If you’re a seasoned podcaster, business leader, or just starting out, you’re in the right place! Keep reading to find out how you can use AI-powered tools to streamline your podcasting process.
But while AI can help speed up workflows, the most successful podcasts still rely on a human touch. Strategy, storytelling, guest curation, and audience growth all require creativity and real world experience. That’s where a dedicated podcast agency comes in.
From content planning and editing to publishing, guest outreach, SEO writing, and audience development, a trusted team can handle it all, so you can focus on showing up and having great conversations. The result? A podcast that not only sounds great but also helps drive demand, build relationships, and create long term business growth.
Our Go-To AI Tools for Podcasters
If you’re tight on time and are in need of quick suggestions, then check out these tools:
Generating scripts or outlines: ChatGPT
Editing and production: Alitu
Enhancing audio quality: Adobe Audition’s Audio Enhancer
Translation tools: Eleven Labs
Cover art and logos: Midjourney
Podcast music: Suno
Marketing: Beehiiv
Transcription: Riverside
AI Tools for Content and Planning
To set yourself apart from other podcasts and keep your audience engaged, you need to be creative with your content. However, we all know how challenging it can be to come up with fresh and unique ideas—especially on a weekly basis.
To help overcome these roadblocks, you can use AI resources that make brainstorming and organizing content much easier. Get inspired with conversation starters, marketing content/campaigns, or entire scripts. Here are some tools that you should consider:
ChatGPT
ChatGPT can assist with idea generation by suggesting relevant topics, keywords, or unique viewpoints. If you need support with structuring your content, it can help with creating outlines, headlines, and subheadings.
If you’re not sure where to start or what questions to ask, then check out this guide: 10 ChatGPT Prompts for Podcasting
Price: tiered—free or $20/month
Key features: idea generation, structuring content, quick drafts, summarizing complex information, identifying relevant keywords that will optimize your SEO.
Alitu Showplanner
Alitu Showplanner is an outstanding resource for podcast planning. It offers inspiration and feedback for anything—whether you need a critique of individual content or the entire premise of your show. In fact, it can help you transform a vague idea into something functional and feasible.
Plus, the personalized launch kit feature will suggest relevant and catchy names for your show, a trailer script, episode ideas, and valuable insights for your target audience.
Price: free (no login or sign-up required)
Key features: podcast plan generator, fleshing out ideas, personalized launch kit
AI Podcast Editing and Production Tools
Let’s face it, editing is time consuming. Fortunately, this daunting task can be streamlined with AI tools. Depending on the software, you can improve your audio quality, generate transcripts, or create cover art.
Alitu
In addition to being an excellent resource for content planning, Alitu also has separate services that enable recording, production, and publishing. This all-in-one platform has some AI editing tools that are worth checking out. Here’s a few of them:
AI-powered transcripts
Audio cleanup (removing background noises)
Automatic removal of filler words and long silences
Price: $38/month
Key Features: recording, editing, transcription, cover art, hosting and publishing
Descript
Descript is another all-in-one platform that eases the podcasting process for you. It can help you with recording, transcribing, editing, and publishing. After gaining access to the immediate transcription, you can perform text-based editing. Which basically means when you delete sentences from the document, it will delete the corresponding audio/video.
Price: tiered—free, $19/month, or $35/month
Key features: high-quality recording, transcription, text-based editing, enhanced sound quality, AI green screen
Improving Audio Quality With AI
Audio quality makes all the difference for your listeners. Regardless of your recording equipment, there is always room for improvement, and with AI tools, you can ensure that your final product is crisp and clear.Here’s a few things to look out for:
Noise reduction and sound enhancement
Voice modulation and synthesis
Auphonic
Auphonic is an excellent platform for improving your sound quality post-production. It offers several AI-powered tools, including noise and reverb reduction, filtering and AutoEQ, intelligent level balancing, and automatic cutting of filler words and silence.
Price: tiered—free 2 hours each month, or plans ranging from $13-$119/month
Key features: noise and reverb reduction, intelligent leveler, filtering and AutoEQ, cut filler words and silence, speech-to-text and automatic show notes.
Adobe Audition’s Audio Enhancer
Adobe Audition’s Audio Enhancer gives users the ability to edit, mix, record, and restore audio.
The Essential Sound Panel (ESP) gives you step-by-step tutorials that will let you achieve professional-quality audio.
Here are a few ways that Adobe will help take your podcast to the next level:
Enhancing audio clarity: adjusting the dynamic range, frequency response, and processing voices
Repairing dialogue: removing problematic sounds (like rumbles or hums)
Unifying loudness: automatically syncs the volume levels of different tracks or speakers
Auto-ducking: lowers the volume of background music when a speaker is talking
Price: $29.99/month or $78.99/month
Key features: enhancing sound quality (repairing dialogue, unifying loudness, auto-ducking), step-by-step tutorials If you want to discover and compare more editing softwares, then check out this full list of free audio editor options for podcasters.
AI for Translations
By translating your conversations into other languages, you’ll expand your reach and appeal to diverse audiences. AI tools make this possible, allowing you to choose between several cover voices that can help get your message across.
Eleven Labs
The founders created Eleven Labs with this goal in mind: to create better and more natural sounding voices for dubbing. They currently offer translation for 29 languages.
On top of translating, if, for whatever reason, you cannot speak and still wish to create your own podcast, Eleven Labs has a Speech Synthesis feature where you can choose between a variety of accents, plus your age and gender. All you have to do is input your text.
Cost: tiered plans—free, $5/month, $22/month, or $99/month
Key features: dubbing, text to speech, voice changer
HeyGen
HeyGen is perfect for creators that want to increase their output of videos, but don’t have the time or capacity to record them. With the AI avatar feature, all you need is a script, then these realistic avatars will present the information for you.
Plus, with AI voice cloning you can upload a clip of your voice and have the avatar sound just like you. From here, you can also translate your audio into 70 different languages (and 175 dialects).
Price: tiered—free, $24/month, $69/month
Key Features: AI avatars, AI voice cloning, text-to-speech, video translation
AI Tools for Podcast Cover Art and Logos
You’ll want to be sure that your podcast cover art is eye-catching. The main goal: attract attention and generate awareness.
To get started, you can use a design program like Cavna, or an image editing software like Pixlr E or Gimp. Or you can opt for an AI-powered tool:
Midjourney
If you’re looking for something that requires even less work, then try using Midjourney. This program generates images based on text descriptions. So, when you’re trying to envision cover art and get some inspiration, you can easily figure out what works versus what doesn’t.
Price: tiered—free, $10/month, $30/month, $60/month, or $120/month
Key features: Text-to-image generation, customizable images
AI Tools for Podcast Music
Music can help make your podcast more distinguishable and engaging for your audience. For example, you can introduce and/or close out your podcast with a theme song.
Here are a few resources where you can find unique and suitable sound bites for your show:
Suno: AI-Generated Songs
With Suno you can have a new song playing for you in a matter of seconds. It’s entirely customizable, you can enter a very specific or broad prompt that will set the theme, genre, instruments, and lyrics of the song. Plus, you can choose between 50 different languages.
Price: tiered—free, $8/month, $24/month
Key Features: creates songs with prompts, images, or videos; record or edit your own songs
Melobytes
Melobytes is an AI music platform that gives you the chance to unleash your creativity and experiment with new content. It offers over 100 apps for music production, text-to-song, imagesor videos into a song, and voice transformation. The options for creating or editing music are practically endless!
Price: tiered—free or $14/month
Key features: AI music; text, image, or video to song; voice transformation
AI Podcast Distribution and Marketing
As we all know, marketing helps expand your reach. With this in mind, many podcasters spend lot of time creating content that will entice new listeners and increase engagement.
Fortunately for you, there are many AI tools that will write show notes, summaries, social posts, and create other marketing materials. Some of these resources will even schedule and plan posting times to maximize the amount of views.
Also, you should definitely take advantage of transcription features, which we’ll cover in the next section. It can double as a marketing tool and a way to accommodate viewers.
Beehiiv
Whether you’re a podcaster or social media influencer, Beehiiv offers features that will streamline the process of online marketing.
You can start your very own email newsletter to promote upcoming episodes, share behind-the-scenes, and build stronger relationships with your audience base. The AI writing and text tools make this process run a whole lot smoother!
There are also diverse monetization opportunities, including premium subscriptions, sponsorships and advertising, and affiliate marketing.
Price: tiered—free, $43/month, $96/month
Key features: website hosting, email managing, monetization capabilities, engagement data
Podpage
Podpage is a great tool for generating podcast websites; it’s easy to use and a huge time saver. In fact, you can have a professional website in a matter of minutes.Plus, the content and formatting will optimize your SEO and make it easy to maintain your online presence.
Price: tiered—$12-39/month
Key features: podcast website builder, easy customization, automatic episode management, seamless integration with other podcast platforms
Transcription with AI
Transcription is an excellent way to enhance your podcast SEO. After all, Google is better at interpreting text rather than audio, making transcripts a valuable tool for improving your podcast’s visibility with relevant keywords.
In addition to making search engines better understand your content, transcripts will also make your content more accessible to hard-of-hearding audiences.
Obviously, transcribing every word of an hour-long conversation will take up way too much of your time. So, check out the following AI services:
Riverside
Riverside is a well-known and reputable remote podcasting platform. The AI-powered transcription tool offers accurate speech-to-text, minimizing the need for proofreading. Here are a few features:
Automatically differentiates between multiple speakers in your recordings
Supports transcription in over 100 languages
Generates show notes, including summaries, keywords, quotes, takeaways, and chapters
Audio enhancement
Cuts filler words and silence
Riverside also has an AI-powered tool that will create “Magic Clips” (bite-sized clips derived from longer recordings). Then, you can post these videos on your social media or website.
Price: tiered—free, $15/month, $24/month
Key features: transcription, remote recording, editing and publishing, short-form content, Magic Clips
Otter.ai
Otter.ai acts as a real-time AI meeting assistant that will record audio, write notes, capture slides, and generate summaries. It also offers automatic transcription, speaker identification, summarization, and live captions.
Price: tiered—free, $16.99/month, $30/month,
Key features: AI meeting assistant, real-time transcription
Tips for Working with AI Podcasting Tools
You should definitely take advantage of AI tools for podcasting; it will save you loads of time. Although, you need to be careful when you incorporate AI-powered tools into your show. After all, it lacks human touch and can make some mistakes.
For example, make sure you always proofread your transcripts, newsletters, or any written work. On top of that, you should probably review your visual/audio footage after using AI editing tools. Get yourself in the habit of listening to the conversation and making sure everything flows nicely and sounds natural.
Now you should have a pretty good idea of which AI tools are most suitable for your podcasting needs. When you test out these resources, make sure you play around with all its features and determine its value and how much time it saves you.
As a general rule of thumb, these tools should help you get ahead, especially in terms of enhancing your show’s quality, posting schedule, and keeping your audience engaged.
Written by: Emily Nyikos
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Jony Studios is a content marketing agency specializing in B2B podcasting and audiobook services. They have worked with many clients, from startups to larger organizations such as Penguin Random House, Amazon, University of Waterloo, Freakonomics Radio, and many others.
