AI Tools for Podcasters: Recording, Editing, and Voice

A podcast workflow typically breaks into three separate jobs — recording, editing, and voice/audio production — and different tools specialize in each rather than one tool doing everything well.

Recording remote guests

Riverside.fm and Podcastle both record locally on each participant’s device rather than streaming audio live, which avoids the choppy audio that comes from a bad internet connection during the call itself. Riverside’s free tier caps at 2 hours per session; Podcastle’s free tier is built around a lifetime allowance instead of a monthly reset — check which model fits your recording frequency.

Editing the episode

Descript’s text-based editing (cut filler words and tangents by editing the transcript, not a timeline) is well suited to podcast editing specifically, where most of the edit is removing dead air and repeated words rather than complex visual cuts. See text-based video editing with Descript for the full workflow — it applies just as directly to audio-only podcasts.

Cleaning up and generating voice content

ElevenLabs is useful beyond narration for podcasters specifically for two things: cleaning up a host’s intro/outro with a consistent AI voice when re-recording isn’t practical, and generating placeholder narration during editing before a final human pass.

Repurposing episodes into clips

Once an episode is edited, running it through a clipping tool (see best AI tools for TikTok and Reels creators) turns the strongest 30–60 seconds into short-form promotional clips — the single highest-leverage repurposing step for podcast audience growth.

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Compare Riverside.fm and Podcastle directly, or see the Descript profile for editing-specific pricing.