The most important step towards building a successful podcast with an engaged audience is creating interesting, compelling content. But somewhere along the way, every podcaster will come to the same inevitable realization: If I’m going to take this seriously, I need a better microphone.

Earlier this week, Zoom released update 5.2.2, which includes a new feature they’re calling “High Fidelity Audio” mode. Peter Kirn over at Create Digital Music covered the update, writing that it would be excellent for musicians. Zoom has always been the easiest way to record remote interviews, but it came with a cost: the audio quality wasn’t as high as a local recording. We wondered how High Fidelity Audio mode would sound for podcasts and remote interviews, so we tested it ourselves — and the results are incredible. Listen for yourself.

Typical voice over software requires you to step behind the mic each time you need to make an edit, fix a mistake, or simply record something new. But Overdub isn’t your typical voiceover app, and it can expand what your voice overs are capable of. Here are four ways to use Overdub to record better voice overs.

Transforming a podcast from an idea into an engaging, listenable final product involves many steps in between. What are those steps? To find out, we spoke with Avi Glijansky, a veteran storyteller and one of the co-founders of podcast studio Frequency Machine. Inspired by their backgrounds in filmmaking, Glijansky and his co-producers Stacey Book and Dominique Ferrari developed a collaborative editing workflow that allows them to go from idea, to interview, to finished podcast almost entirely in Descript.

Last week, we launched Overdub, an AI voice generator that allows you to create a realistic clone of your own voice. To help you make the most of the software, we’re offering some tips to ensure a production-ready Overdub voice, with crisp fidelity, realistic intonation, and natural expressiveness.

Overdub is finally here. This state-of-the-art voice generator allows you to create an ultra-realistic clone of your own voice — so you can create speech just by typing text in Descript.