#33: Future-Proofing Your Podcast: Embracing Synthetic Speech for Business Success

Text-to-speech technology has been around for a while. AI voice generation or synthetic speech is taking that tech to new levels of realism which sounds almost human-like. Leveraging the power of deep learning and natural language processing (NLP), synthetic speech is being used on social media platforms and you might even not know it. This tech has already started to transform multiple areas like e-learning, audiobooks, gaming etc. Podcasting is also one of them. In this episode, we explore how synthetic speech has the potential to transform business podcasting, if certain associated risks are taken care of. (00:00) Introduction (01:31) The synthetic flavour AI is bringing to podcasts (04:38) How does synthetic speech generation work? (07:06) Possible applications of synthetic speech in business and marketing (10:32) Barriers to adoption of synthetic speech for business podcasting