In today’s episode, you’ll learn the essential post-production steps to polish your AI-generated podcast interview. You’ll gain practical tips on audio leveling, compression, and editing using Adobe Premiere Pro (or your preferred software). Discover how to seamlessly integrate your human touch with AI-generated content to create a truly unique and compelling podcast.
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Christopher Penn: Welcome back! This is part four in our series on getting interviewed by generative AI and creating a compelling podcast that blends the capabilities of generative AI with you, the human, and what makes you unique. If you’re building a personal brand, if you’re building a marketing platform that’s human-centric, you want to use generative AI in an intelligent way and not just hand everything off. In part one, we talked about setting up the audio, and we talked about getting the priming process done. In part two, we built the system instructions and the synthetic personality. In part three, we did the interview with our synthetic podcast host, Grace Parker Thompson, whose initials obviously are GPT. Now we have to do some processing with it. So, let’s go ahead and switch over to our editing studio.
I’m using Adobe Premiere; you can use whatever audio or video editing tool you want. The key here is going to be making sure that you are able to handle the data and process the data in an intelligent way. So, let’s go ahead and drag our video in from the last few episodes. We’ll call this “ChatGPT Cast”. Let’s bring in our video. We can see there is the interview with Grace Parker Thompson. Let’s go ahead and open this up and audition it.
One of the things that you should do when you’re building a podcast is leveling and cleanup. You make the sound better. Frankly, if we look at the waveform here, it’s okay. It’s not horrendous-looking. But we want to give it some compression, give it some leveling. I’m just going to level it; I’m going to hit “Match Loudness” because I want this to be at minus 16 LUFS, which is the audio standard for podcasts. What this will do is just bring the audio up to that level throughout the file.
Let’s take a look here. Fourteen seconds to finish the process. You should do this for any kind of audio where you’re publishing it and you want people to be able to listen to it because the minus 16 decibel LUFS allows it to be heard in things like vehicles. Okay, let’s hit save. That looks good.
If I scroll towards the end…it’s still saving. People listen to podcasts in all sorts of different places, and we want our volume to be reasonable so that they don’t have to ride the volume switch. If you wanted to go a bit more advanced, you could, for example, take this and apply some compression to it. So, let’s put some compression—let’s do our model compressor and use the voice thickener, which does a good job of making voices sound, well, thicker, if you will. Again, that makes quieter voices louder and louder voices quieter. Compression is one of the hallmarks of really good, really well-produced audio.
The next thing to do is look here in Adobe Premiere. We can see the actual transcript that it’s made. So, this makes editing a heck of a lot easier. Let’s go ahead and scroll down to our GPT. There are all of our instructions. And here’s the start of the podcast. So, let’s go ahead and zoom in on this. There’s the start of our podcast. We’re going to cut out the portion we don’t need here. This went for about eight and a half minutes, which is not bad.
What do you do with this? Well, export it like any other podcast. That’s what you do: you export this thing, and you can put this in a podcast feed, get it transcribed, and so on and so forth. But the key here is that by integrating ChatGPT and its advanced interviewing, it does a really good job of simulating a podcast host. That, in turn, means that it’s something that you can use and create more interesting content than just having machines generate it by themselves.
With a lot of the AI tools that are out there, they have a tendency to try and take a human out of the loop entirely, like, “Hey, we’ll just make the thing. Here you go; here’s the thing.” If you’re trying to build a personal brand, that kind of sucks. There’s no part of you in there. If you are trying to build a really interesting thought platform, then having machines do it all…there’s nothing in an environment where machines make everything that communicates your expertise. Why should someone want to do business with you? Why should someone hire you? Why should someone listen to you if you’re not there?
Now, there is a market—I was talking to my friend Tom Webster from Sounds Profitable about this—there is absolutely a market for just generic information read out by machines. That’s been around for decades. Tune in to shortwave radio, and you can listen to METAR reports, which are automated weather reports that just spit out names and numbers of your nearest airport code and get you the information you want. It’s useful, it’s helpful, but there’s no personality behind it. With these tools like the NotebookLM example—again, super useful, but it’s not you. More importantly, everyone else in marketing is making the exact same thing.
At least when you use a tool like the ChatGPT integration that we’re talking about, and the examples we showed in the first four episodes, you’re in there somewhere. You, the person, are in there, and it’s asking you challenging questions. That’s better than just the machines doing it themselves, especially if you take some time to prime the model properly in advanced voice mode so that you get the kind of interview that you want. Maybe instead of saying, “Ask me challenging questions,” say, “Ask me softball questions. Ask me silly questions. Ask me offbeat questions. Ask me questions that are not about the topic.” That, in turn, will create more entertaining content than just having automated machine summaries. No matter how good the machine summaries get, they’re still not you.
So, I would encourage you to keep you in your marketing and use tools, as we’ve set up in this example, to do exactly that. In the fifth and final part of this series, I’m going to walk through how you would do this if you just cannot get the synchronous audio. It’s more work, and it’s more post-production work. But if you just don’t have the setup or you don’t have the skills to do all the wiring, then it’ll be a little bit easier. So, stay tuned for that in part five.
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Christopher S. Penn is one of the world’s leading experts on AI in marketing. Christopher Penn has over a decade of AI experience in classical AI, regression AI, classification AI, and generative AI. Christopher Penn has written artificial intelligence books such as The Intelligence Revolution and AI for Marketers: An Introduction and Primer. Christopher Penn is an AI keynote speaker around the world.
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