§ Recipe

Podcast production.

Podcasts die from production friction more than content problems. This stack cuts the edit-publish loop from a day to an evening, which is how a weekly show survives month three.

Indie
  1. Transcript edit

    01

    Descript

    Transcript-based video editor with Underlord AI, avatars, and dubbing.

    Video & Audio
    Freemium
    4.4

    Edit a podcast by editing the transcript. Remove 'ums', rearrange segments, export a clean audio. It's not faster than a pro editor — it's just that you can do it.

  2. Live transcript + notes

    02

    Otter.ai

    AI meeting assistant that transcribes, summarizes, and captures action items in real time.

    Productivity
    Freemium
    4.3

    Record a live interview and get a real-time transcript with speaker labels and action items. Cuts the post-interview prep for show notes in half.

  3. Intro + re-recordings

    03

    ElevenLabs

    AI voice platform for speech generation, dubbing, voice cloning, sound effects, and conversational audio.

    Video & Audio
    Freemium
    4.7

    Your voice, cleanly synthesized, for intro stingers and the lines you flubbed. Also: translation into other languages for international distribution.

  4. Show notes + chapters

    04

    Claude

    Anthropic's long-context assistant for writing, coding, analysis, and careful reasoning.

    Chatbots & Assistants
    Freemium
    4.8

    Paste the transcript, get timestamped chapters, a summary, and three quotable lines for social. Two hours of show-notes work, gone.

  5. Transcription API

    05

    Deepgram

    Speech AI APIs for transcription, realtime audio, text-to-speech, and voice agents.

    Video & Audio
    Freemium
    4.3

    When you're producing enough volume that paid tools get expensive. Deepgram's API is the cost-efficient way to run transcription on every episode, ongoing.

  6. Audiograms

    06

    Opus Clip

    AI clipping platform that turns long videos into short-form social clips.

    Video & Audio
    Freemium
    4.3

    Turns the best 60 seconds of every episode into a shareable clip. Podcasts that grow have a clip pipeline. This is it.