AI to fix most annoying thing about podcasting

• It’s everyone’s nightmare: a podcast where everyone is talking over one another. It’s one of the most irritating things for listeners, and it makes life almost impossible for podcast editors. AI can now help with that - AudioShake has launched a tool to separate overlapping voices - there is a demo in the release - and the tool is already integrated into Wondercraft.

• Exclusive: HerMoney has partnered with Evergreen and Rhapsody Voices for sales and distribution. The show is hosted by Jean Chatzky, and marks an expansion of Evergreen’s business podcasts channel. The show was previously with Airwave.

• Podcast production tool Alitu now records video. “When you’re done, you’ll get an MP4 download with all participant videos neatly arranged in a grid - ready to upload straight to YouTube without any additional editing.” It’s available to every customer with no additional cost.

• The real growth opportunity for branded podcasts is to tap into underserved markets, says Quill Podcasting’s Tianna Marinucci. Meanwhile, there’s a free webinar about the power of branded podcasts tomorrow, with JAR Audio and Sounds Profitable.

• Podcastle has added what it calls “the world’s largest library of AI voices”. The company is also adding a new version of its voice cloning tool, which gives reduced processing times and greater fidelity to the original voice. The release includes one of the company’s stock voices reading it.

• Your audiobook reader might be AI in future. Spotify added audiobooks using AI voices by ElevenLabs at the end of last month: the use of AI voices will be marked in the book metadata and the audio. And, last week, Futuri Media launched FuturiBooks, using broadcast-quality AI voices tuned to “perform”.

• Where’s the best place to record an Apple Podcasts chart-topping show? How about at the Apple Store? Mamamia Out Loud will be celebrating ten years of shows with a live recording in the store in George Street, Sydney on Mar 28.

• Plink, a method of making “smart podcast links”, stopped working for paid members in early Feb. By Mar 5, the problem was partially fixed; the company currently suggests that episode links may still be intermittent for those users.

• Descript will demonstrate new features later today in a webinar.

• In India, the Podmasters 2025 podcast awards has extended its early bird deadline to March 17.

She Leads with CARE

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She Leads with CARE is a limited podcast series hosted by actress and producer Bellamy Young. From Vietnam to Ukraine to Tanzania, community leaders share their life experiences to show how local empowerment programs are changing lives. Join Bellamy to learn about the difference we can make in our own lives – and the lives of those around us – when we care.

From Daria, helping Ukrainian kids stay in school, to Ra’edah, breaking barriers as a female plumber in Jordan, these are the stories of resilience, leadership, and impact.

The first episode drops today—don’t miss it! Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Tips and tricks - with Pod Predictor by Coleman Insights

• One, simple, link for your podcast makes it more likely that people will listen.

• Do you use QR codes on your website to help people listen to your show? Today, we learnt about style="image-rendering: pixelated;" which ensures that the QR code doesn’t get smoothed out by your browser, and work better.

Podcast News - with Airwave

Airwave presents, for your Ambies consideration: Culture Kids for Best Kids Podcast. Culture Kids is an award-winning podcast on a mission to make a multicultural mindset the default for the next generation. Each episode takes young listeners on exciting adventures to countries, cities, and cultures all around the world—embracing our differences with curiosity, understanding, and friendship.

For Canadians, their best friend may become their enemy. Elbows Up is new today - a show that examines what Canadians, and Canada, can do to make sure they stay strong and free forever. It’s an independent show, cooked up quickly because … yeah. Today’s first episode is about how Canada should probably revive its civil defence corps. It’s hosted by Jordan Heath-Rawlings (The Big Story, The Gravy Train) and produced by Laura Palmer (Island Crime).

Divine Intervention, new today from the Wonder Media Network, follows a ragtag band of radical nuns in combat boots, wild-haired priests and their madcap friends who swiftly became accomplished cat-burglars in a hellbent effort to sabotage the Vietnam war. Many went to jail, some betrayed their friends. Brendan Patrick Hughes uncovers their audacious illegal acts – scaling walls, picking locks, destroying draft cards, harboring a draft fugitive in a church sanctuary, and trading blows with J. Edgar Hoover.

Where Politics Meets History is new from Global, with Iain Dale and Tessa Dunlop. The show replaces For The Many, and will explore today’s UK political landscape with parallels from the past.

Starting a new season today, Disrupting Peace explores why peace hasn’t worked, and how it still could. In each episode, Bridget Conley, research director at the World Peace Foundation, speaks with a researcher specializing in one obstacle to peace, and an activist who’s changing systems from the ground up. Together they explore what worked, what didn’t, and why we shouldn’t give up.