Use case · Podcasts
Host, guest and narrator, each with their own voice, from a script you can rewrite any time. Add the intro sting, export at −16 LUFS, and publish.
For Newsletter writers, brands with a show, solo hosts who want a co-host
Welcome back to Field Notes. Today: why cities are getting quieter.
It isn't the cars. It's what replaced them.
Okay, you're going to have to explain that.
01What changes
02How it goes
03What it costs
Starter makes about 17 a month. A standard voice is a credit a word; premium voices 1.5.
04What you'll use
05Questions
AI voices make it possible to produce a show without booking a studio, a co-host or a guest. Here's how to plan an episode, cast it, keep it sounding natural, and deliver a file podcast apps are happy with.
Solo narration (a newsletter read aloud, a daily briefing) needs one excellent voice. Conversational shows need two or three voices that sound clearly different from each other: vary gender, age or accent so listeners always know who's speaking. Fiction and audio drama need a narrator plus a voice per character.
Start from the podcast template, which comes with a host and a guest, or paste a script with speaker names at the start of each line and let Leelo split it.
Real conversation has short turns, interruptions and reactions. Give the host lines like “Wait, really?” and “Okay, explain that.” They cost almost nothing and make a scripted exchange feel live. Avoid paragraphs of monologue from either side unless it's a story being told.
Use emotion where the voice supports it (amused, serious, surprised), and add pauses at topic changes. A podcast is 30 minutes of listening; variation in pace keeps attention.
Many creators clone their own voice and use it as the host, so the show still sounds like them on weeks they can't record. Cloning is free; generating speech in your own voice costs 5 credits a word. Cloning always asks you to confirm you are the speaker or have their permission.
Put your intro music and stingers on their own lanes in the Studio, set the levels by ear, and export one file. The default loudness is −16 LUFS, which is what most podcast apps expect, so episodes sit at the same volume as everything else in a listener's feed.
If part of the episode is a real recording, such as an interview, clean it up to remove background noise and transcribe it to get an editable script you can cut and extend with generated lines.
At around 150 words a minute, a 30-minute episode is roughly 4,500 words, so about 4,500 credits in standard voices. The Starter plan's 80,000 monthly credits cover around 17 episodes. Premium voices cost 1.5 credits a word.
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