Studio: podcasts

A podcast turns a document, an article or your notes into an episode where two hosts talk it through. Cinara writes the script first, you read and edit it, and only then is it recorded.

Writing the script costs from 100 credits (a long document or episode can cost more). Recording is charged when you press record, so a script you don't like costs almost nothing.

Make an episode

1. Add the text

1. Open Studio in the sidebar, and choose New podcast (the card, or the button at the top right).
2. Choose one:
   • Import a document: choose Choose a document and pick an EPUB, Word (DOCX), Markdown or plain text file, up to 30 MB.
   • Paste text: paste a report, an article or your notes into Text the hosts talk about.

Your source then fills the screen on the left, with an Episode panel on the right. Choose Start over to pick different text.

2. Set up the episode

On the left, above the source:

• Episode title: optional. Leave it empty and Cinara writes one.

• Notes for the hosts: optional. The angle, the audience, anything to skip. In the Episode panel:

• Hosts: name each host and give each one a voice. The play button beside a voice plays a preview; choose the voice to search and hear every voice. Your cloned and designed voices come first. The two hosts need different names and different voices.

• Length: 3 to 30 minutes. This is the length the script is written for.

• Quality: Cinara Speech or Cinara Speech HD.

• Language: Detect, or one of 37 languages (the same list as Speech).

• Intro and outro music: on by default. Cinara makes a short theme for the start and the end.

3. Write the script

Choose Write the script · from 100 credits at the bottom of the panel.

The script usually takes under a minute for a short source. A 1,200-character source produced a 44-line script in about 20 seconds. You can leave the page and come back.

4. Read and edit the script

When it's ready the episode shows Ready to review. The conversation fills the screen on the left (it scrolls on its own), and a Recording panel on the right shows the cost.

• Change the Episode title.
• Edit any line's text, and change which host says it.
• Add line puts a new line after the one you're on.
• Remove a line you don't want.
• Choose Save changes when you're done. It shows Saved.

Editing is free: nothing has been recorded yet. The Recording panel shows the Lines, the estimated Listening time and what recording will cost.

5. Record

Choose Record episode · N credits at the bottom of the Recording panel.

Cinara records a few lines at a time in the background, so you can leave the page and come back. You'll see Recording line 12 of 44 and a progress bar. A 26-line script recorded into a two-minute episode in about a minute.

Then Cinara joins the lines, makes the intro and outro, and puts the episode together.

The result

The finished episode plays at the top, the transcript (each line with its host's name) scrolls below it, and a Downloads panel on the right lists every file:

• Episode: the finished episode, with the music.
• Hosts only: the conversation without the music.
• Intro and Outro: the two music beds on their own.
• Transcript: the script as text.

Episodes are listed in Studio, alongside your audiobooks (filter with Podcasts), marked Podcast with their status: Writing, Ready to review, Recording, Ready or Failed · refunded. All projects (top right) goes back to the list.

Limits

• Source text: 200 to 200,000 characters. The writer reads the first 40,000 characters of a long document.
• Documents up to 30 MB: EPUB, DOCX, Markdown or plain text.
• Episode length: 3 to 30 minutes.
• Up to 400 lines, each up to 800 characters.
• Host names up to 40 characters. The two hosts need different names and different voices.
• Notes up to 600 characters.
• Messages you might see: "Add the text to talk about (at least 200 characters)", "Choose a length from 3 to 30 minutes", "Give the two hosts different names", "Give each host a different voice", "Keep the notes under 600 characters".

Credits

Step	Credits
Write the script	From 100
Record: Cinara Speech	1 per character of the script
Record: Cinara Speech HD	2 per character
Intro and outro music	300 per track, so 600 with music on

• Writing is charged when you choose Write the script, recording when you choose Record episode. A script you never record costs only the writing.
• Editing the script is free, and so is rewriting it before you record.
• The cost shown next to Record episode follows your edits: cut lines, and it falls.
• If your balance is too low you see "Recording this episode needs N credits; the workspace has M."
• If a step fails, its credits are refunded.

Tips

• Give the hosts notes: the angle and the audience change the script more than the length does.
• Pick two voices that sound different from each other. A contrast in age or energy makes the conversation easy to follow.
• Read the script before recording. It's the only free moment to fix a name, a claim or an ending.
• The hosts only talk about the text you give them, so paste everything the episode needs.
• Add names and jargon to your workspace pronunciations before recording.
• Turn the music off for an internal briefing, and keep it for anything you publish.

Related

• Studio: audiobooks: narrate a book chapter by chapter.
• Dialogue: write a short conversation yourself.
• Voice Library: pick the hosts' voices.
• Drive and sharing: share an episode with a link.