LINKS · FROM THE CAROUSEL

Turn Claude into a podcast studio

For anyone recording audio who wants transcripts, cuts and voice work done without an editor.

These are the 8 tools from the carousel, in the order I’d install them. Every one is free.

WhisperX
To transcribe with speakers
Word-level timestamps and speaker labels, so every line of the transcript knows who said it.
Open on GitHub
auto-editor
To cut the silences
Removes dead air and pauses from a recording automatically, then hands you a timeline to tweak.
Open on GitHub
Demucs
To separate voice and music
Pulls the vocals out of any track or lifts a voice off a noisy background.
Open on GitHub
Kokoro
To narrate with free TTS
A tiny, fast, open text-to-speech model that sounds natural enough for intros and ad reads.
Open on GitHub
Fish Speech
To clone your voice
Open-source voice cloning: give it a short sample and it reads your script back in your own voice.
Open on GitHub
Podcastfy
To turn docs into episodes
The open-source NotebookLM audio: feed it articles or PDFs and get a two-host conversation.
Open on GitHub
Audapolis
To edit audio like text
Edit a recording by editing its transcript. Delete a sentence and the audio goes with it.
Open on GitHub
Audacity
To master the final mix
The free audio editor everyone starts with, now with scripting Claude can drive.
Open on GitHub