Podcasting

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.

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.

Learn how to record a podcast remotely using local captures, conferencing tools, or double-enders—plus tips for pro-quality long distance recordings.

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.

If you’re trying to record better audio for a podcast or voiceover, what’s the first thing that springs to mind? Using a high-quality microphone, most likely. But the space you’re recording in affects the way your recording sounds just as much as the microphone you use to record it. In fact, underestimating the impact of reverberation, or reflected sound, on an audio recording might be the number one mistake anyone recording a podcast or voice over at home will make.