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PodcastorAI
Your AI twin hosts your video podcast
676 followers
Your AI twin hosts your video podcast
676 followers
Create studio-quality video podcasts from scripts, links, PDFs, or ideas — with AI hosts, natural voices, and your digital twin. Podcastor handles production and puts you on screen, turning hours of recording and editing into a finished video podcast in around 15 minutes. Create solo or two-host episodes and get a publish-ready video without cameras or a production team. Already have an audio episode? Upload it and transform it into a video podcast with your voice and AI avatar.
That is exactly the balance I was getting at. Turning one full episode into platform-ready clips without adding a second review queue sounds like the right direction, especially if the original context stays attached to the cuts.
PodcastorAI
@wesc Exactly. A clip isn’t useful if it removes the nuance that made the original point valuable. Our goal is to make repurposing genuinely additive: preserve the speaker’s intent and context while adapting each cut for the platform, without creating another editing workflow for the creator. That principle is guiding how we’re building the AI clipping feature.
PodcastorAI
@wesc Honestly Wes, this is the stuff that keeps me up at night. The second review queue is exactly the trap — you save time on the cut and lose it all again checking the clips. Keeping the original context attached is the part we're still wrestling with, but you just described the version we're trying to get to.
AskCodi
My favorite part isn't even the AI avatar, it's compressing the entire production workflow into minutes. That changes who can consistently create content. Curious, how much editing do users typically do after the first generated version?
PodcastorAI
@shreyans_assistiv Thanks Shreyans! 🙏 That's exactly the shift we were chasing — turning production from a multi-day process into something you can do between meetings.
On editing: most users keep the first generated version with only light tweaks — usually swapping a line or two of script and adjusting pacing. The people who edit more are the ones dialing in brand tone, and that's the workflow we're focused on making faster next.
The audio-upload path is the part that catches my eye. Most podcasters I talk to have a big back catalog of audio-only episodes and no realistic way to get them onto YouTube as video. Have you seen how the AI-avatar episodes hold up on retention versus real-camera footage? That's the number that would decide it for the audio-first crowd.
PodcastorAI
@podcast_ai That’s the right metric, and we don’t have enough controlled retention data yet to claim that AI-avatar episodes match real-camera footage. Before building Podcastor, we studied a number of AI podcast channels on YouTube with tens or even hundreds of thousands of subscribers and strong view counts, especially in storytelling and education. There’s still a gap versus great on-camera content, but those categories show that AI-hosted formats can already work well when the content fits.
We’re now running our own YouTube experiments across several topics and collecting more data. We’d love to have more audio-first creators join us so we can build a clearer picture of where this format creates the most value.
PodcastorAI
Hey Product Hunt👋 I’m Parsons, founder of PodcastorAI.
Making a video podcast is stupidly slow. You already know what you want to say — but turning it into something watchable means a camera, lighting, a cohost's calendar, and hours in Descript. One hour of finished content usually eats ~5 hours of production.
Podcastor removes that bottleneck.
Bring your audio podcast (or a link, PDF, or your NotebookLM audio) and it becomes a directed episode hosted by your digital-twin avatar — structure, pacing, host handoffs, all done for you.
NotebookLM can write a podcast; Podcastor puts you on screen.
How PodcastorAI Works
Choose or create your AI hosts
Upload your image to create a digital twin, bring your pet or original character to life, or start with one of our demo hosts. Create a solo or two-host podcast.
Add your content and choose your voices
Start with an idea, script, document, link, or recorded audio. Then select an AI voice or clone your own voice.
Generate and publish
PodcastorAI automatically handles the hosts, pacing, captions, visuals, and video formats, helping you create and publish polished podcast content in minutes.
Who is PodcastorAI for?
Podcasters and creators: turn existing scripts and recordings into videos for YouTube, TikTok, and social media
Educators and experts: transform lessons, research, and professional knowledge into engaging video podcasts
Brands and content teams: repurpose blogs, webinars, interviews, and campaign materials without rebuilding everything from scratch
Storytellers and IP creators: bring personal stories, original characters, or even pets to life as podcast hosts
It's free to try — drop your content and watch your twin host it. We're here all day and would love your feedback. 🙏
To celebrate our launch, use code PCTR30OFFPH to get 30% off your subscription! 🎉
Join our Discord to share feedback, show us what you create, and help shape what we build next:
https://discord.com/invite/KG4XywWkev
P.S. A note on the launch: we're part of Build with OpenAI 🎉 because we leaned hard on GPT-5.6 while building this. Genuinely couldn't have hit this timeline without it.
Invoko
Can I keep my original audio exactly as recorded and use the AI host only for the video layer?
PodcastorAI
@mingyouagi Yes, absolutely! You can upload your existing recording, keep the original audio, and add an AI host as the video layer—there’s no need to record or regenerate everything again.
Can users preview a lower-resolution draft before spending credits on the final render?
PodcastorAI
@joviechen Not yet, Jovie — no preview before the final render at the moment 🙏 But it's a great suggestion, and one we'll take away and evaluate. Really appreciate you raising it 🙌
Turning an existing recording into a video podcast without recording everything again is such a practical use case.
PodcastorAI
@fayann Exactly! We built this workflow for creators who already have great audio but don’t want to record everything again for video. They can reuse the original episode and turn it into a publish-ready video podcast with an AI host.