The Financial and Technical Landscape of Podcasting

Today we’re unpacking a world of AI tools and their applications in podcasting. I start by asking ChatGPT what the top uses for ChatGPT (and you'll be surprised) are.

We also discuss the crucial balance between leveraging AI for efficiency and maintaining the credibility and trust of your audience. If you lose your integrity, you may never get it back.

Above all, NEVER have AI make content that is made public without human interaction.

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1. School of Podcasting Website : Dave Jackson's website for podcast consultation.
2. Music Radio Creative : Associated with Mike Russell, one of the guest experts in AI.
3. Red Hat Media : Associated with Larry Roberts, another guest expert in AI.
4. AI Goes To College : Associated with Craig Van Slyke, another guest expert in AI.
5. 11 Labs : A tool for generating AI voices, used by Dave Jackson in producing content for the episode.
6. Mike Russell Video on Free AI Plugins for Audacity
7. Mike Russell Creator Magic YouTube Channel
8. Creator Magic YouTube Channel : Mike Russell's channel, where he discusses tools and plugins for content creation. Here is the video.
9. Ask the Podcast Coach : Dave Jackson’s live Q&A podcast on podcasting tips and advice.
10. CapSho : An AI tool for creating marketing content and summaries from podcast episodes.
11. Descript : A podcast editing tool with features like Studio Sound for audio cleanup and filler word removal.
12. PodPage: A platform allowing users to create podcast websites.
13. SpeakPipe : A tool that allows users to send voice messages.
14. Otter.ai : A transcription service used for creating detailed show notes.
15. Pod Squeeze : An AI tool providing limited free usage to analyze podcast episodes.
16. Swell AI: Another AI tool offering limited free episodes for content analysis.
17. Spinwriter: A tool for generating content from existing articles aimed at improving SEO.
18. Google Notebook: Used for reading PDFs aloud using AI voices. Helen and Kyle are the AI-generated voices.
19. OpusClip: A tool for generating multiple video clips from long content.
20. BigVU: Another video clip generation tool.
21. ClipGen: A clip-generation tool for creating social media content.
22. Minvo: Another tool for generating video clips.
23. Flexcut: Tool similar to the previous ones for video clipping.
24. Hippo Video: Offers text-to-video tools for content creation.
25. Wisecut: A tool for creating video clips from long recordings.
26. Hey Gen AI Video Generator
27. Perplexity - AI Tool that Provides Sources of Answers.
28. Chapt GPT - One of the original AI Tools.

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