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Best AI tools for podcasters
An hour of conversation turns into several hours of work: fixing the audio, cutting mistakes and dead air, writing show notes, and chopping clips for social. AI now handles most of that mechanical edit, and it can clean up a bad remote connection before it ever reaches the recording.
- 01 Editing episodes by transcript: Descript
- 02 Clean audio on remote recordings: Krisp
- 03 Show notes and episode summaries: Claude
- 04 Social clips from video episodes: OpusClip
- 05 Intros, ad reads and pickups in your voice: ElevenLabs
Editing episodes by transcript
Descript
Free · from $16/mo
Delete a word in the transcript and the audio goes with it, remove every filler word in one click, and use Studio Sound on a guest recorded on a laptop. The free tier caps at 60 media minutes a month, so a weekly show needs Hobbyist at $16/mo billed annually, which includes 10 media hours.
- Free tier
- Caps out at 60 media minutes/month and 100 one-time AI credits; exports are not watermark-free and AI tool access is limited
Clean audio on remote recordings
Krisp
Free trial · from $8/mo
Runs at the audio device layer, so it removes noise and echo in any call app without an integration, processing on your own machine. It cleans live audio only and will not repair a file you already recorded badly. After a 7-day trial it is $8/mo per user billed annually.
- Free tier
- 7-day free trial, no credit card: unlimited transcription, noise cancellation, recording and AI notes, limited accent conversion
Show notes and episode summaries
Claude
Free · Pro from $20/mo
Holds a long document in one pass without drifting, which is what writing notes from a full-episode transcript needs, and writes in a natural rather than robotic voice. The free tier has a limited message allowance; Pro is $20/mo or $17/mo billed annually.
- Free tier
- Chat on web, iOS, Android, and desktop, plus code generation, content creation, web search, memory, file creation, and connector integration, with a limited session-based message allowance
Social clips from video episodes
OpusClip
Free · from $15/mo
Picks out the moments that will travel, reframes them to vertical with the speaker centred, and captions them. Only relevant if you record video; audio-only shows get nothing from it. Starter is $15/mo for 150 credits, roughly one per minute of source.
- Free tier
- Uploads from local files only, 1080p watermarked exports, spoken-word-only AI clipping, storage/exports expire after 3 days, no credit card required
Intros, ad reads and pickups in your voice
ElevenLabs
Free · from $6/mo
Clones a voice from a minute of clean audio and generates sound effects from a text description, useful for patching a flubbed line without re-recording. The free tier includes 10,000 credits a month.
- Free tier
- 10,000 credits/month; access to Text to Speech, Speech to Text, Sound Effects, Voice Design, Music, Productions, Image, 3 Studio projects
What you can skip
Synthesia turns a script into a presenter-led avatar video, and its own listing marks it wrong for anything that has to feel unscripted or personal, which is the whole point of a conversation show. Synthesia profile.
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