audien.to vs Podcast.ai

audien.to turns audio recordings into the document you actually need. You drop in a meeting, interview, lecture, podcast or voice memo, and in about a minute you get back a clean transcript, meeting minutes, show notes, an email recap, study notes or a first article draft.

You can upload MP3, M4A, WAV, MP4 or MOV files up to two hours long, paste a link, or record in the browser. The transcript is timestamped and separates the speakers, and you can export it as TXT, SRT, VTT, DOCX or Markdown.

From the same recording you can then pick other outputs: a cleaned-up version without filler words, a summary with key points, podcast show notes with chapters and quotes, meeting minutes with decisi…

Podcast.ai is an experiment-turned-showcase in fully AI-generated podcasting — episodes where the voices, and in some cases the conversations themselves, are machine-created. It became famous for episodes like an "interview" between Joe Rogan and Steve Jobs, generated entirely by AI, and stands as a demonstration of where synthetic media is heading.

Each episode pairs realistic AI voice synthesis with scripted or model-generated dialogue, producing listenable conversations between people who never actually spoke. For listeners, it's a fascinating (and sometimes uncanny) glimpse of synthetic media capabilities; for creators, it's proof-of-concept for AI voice technology applied to long-for…