Text-to-speech for podcasts: every format, in one place

Not every podcast format needs the same setup. This is the short map of what to use for what, with a link to the detailed guide for each.

Solo narration — news-style, explainer, or scripted episodes

For a single-narrator show — news roundups, explainers, scripted essay-style episodes — see How to make a podcast episode with text-to-speech for the full walkthrough: pacing, segment breaks, and adding a music bed with auto-ducking.

Two-host intros, interviews, and dialogue

If your format has two distinct voices — a co-hosted intro, an interview segment, a scripted dialogue — see How to make a two-voice dialogue or interview voiceover for how to tag and assign separate voices to each speaker in one project.

A news or broadcast-style tone

For a more formal, broadcast-style delivery specifically — steadier pacing, a beat around key facts — see How to get a news-reporter or broadcast-style read.

What's common to all of them

Every format starts the same way: draft the full script for free with a device voice, get the pacing and pauses right, then preview the real voice and download only once it's ready. A music bed with auto-ducking works identically across solo, two-host, or broadcast-style episodes — pick a track, turn it on, and it balances itself under whoever's talking.