📖 The AI Tool Bible

Best AI tools for podcast editing

15 tools in the Audio category, filtered to podcast editing.

AssemblyAI

Audio · Universal / Slam-1

Speech-to-text API with diarisation, summarisation, and topic detection.

Freemium· Pre-recorded Speech-to-Text API: $0.21 /hr · Universal-2: $0.15 /hr · Realtime Speech-to-Text API: $0.45 /hr · Universal-Streaming: $0.15 /hr · Universal-Streaming Multilingual: $0.15 /hrtranscriptiondiarisation

Mubert

Audio · Proprietary sample-based generative engine

AI music generator that spits out royalty-free background tracks for video, podcast, and app use.

Freemium· Ambassador: Free · Creator: $14 · Pro Most popular: $39 · Business: $199background-musicroyalty-free-soundtracks

Soundraw

Audio · Proprietary in-house model

AI music generator that spits out royalty-free, customizable tracks by genre and mood.

Freemium· Creator: €5.83/mo · Artist Starter: €10.75/mo · Artist Pro: €12.42/mo · Artist Unlimited: €17.42/mo · Enterprise: Askbackground musicvideo soundtracks

Dia

Audio · Dia-1.6B

Open-weights 1.6B text-to-dialogue model that generates ultra-realistic multi-speaker conversations in one pass.

Free· Free, open weights (Apache 2.0); hosted larger version waitlisteddialogue-generationvoice-cloning

LOVO AI

Audio · Proprietary (LOVO Pro V2 voices)

Text-to-speech and voice cloning platform with 500+ voices, an integrated video editor, and a developer API.

Freemium· 14-day free Pro trial, no credit card; paid subscription tierstext-to-speechvoice-cloning

Beatoven.ai

Audio · Maestro (proprietary)

Text-to-music generator that spits out royalty-free background tracks with a clean licensing story.

Freemium· Basic: $10 · Pro: $20 · Enterprise: Contact salesbackground-musicsound-effects

ZenMic

Text-to-podcast generator with multi-speaker AI voices and RSS publishing.

Freemium· Monthly: $19 · Yearly: ≈ $8.25/mo · Early Adopter Tier: ?text-to-podcastcontent-repurposing

WhisperAPI

Audio · OpenAI Whisper

Hosted OpenAI Whisper transcription with a pay-as-you-go API and drop-in web dashboard.

Paid· 20 API Credits: $5 · 100 API Credits: $20 · 200 API Credits: $30 · Custom: $100.00audio-transcriptionvideo-subtitles

AInterview

AI host that interviews you and turns the conversation into a finished podcast.

Freemium· Free 10 min/mo; Premium $19/mo (2 hrs); pay-as-you-go $0.13-$0.20/minai-podcast-hostsolo-podcasting

Audify AI

Audio · OpenAI TTS (tts-1, tts-1-hd, gpt-4o-mini-tts)

Pay-as-you-go web wrapper around OpenAI's text-to-speech voices.

Freemium· BYO OpenAI key (free); or top up from $2 pay-per-usetext-to-speechvoiceover

CustomPod

Turns your chosen news sources, RSS feeds, and inboxes into a personalized daily AI podcast.

Freemium· Free: Free · Pro: $4.99 / monthpersonal podcastnews briefing

Ecrett Music

AI background-music generator that spits out royalty-free instrumental tracks by scene, mood, and genre.

Freemium· Free preview tier; Individual $4.99/mo annual ($7.99 monthly); Business $14.99/mo annual ($24.99 monthly)background-musicyoutube-soundtracks

EKHOS AI

Audio · Proprietary local models

Offline Windows transcription app with speaker diarization, GPU acceleration, and 98-language support.

Freemium· Premium: $9transcriptionspeaker-diarization

Soundful

Audio · Proprietary (human-aided AI)

Template-driven AI music generator that spits out royalty-free, commercially licensable tracks in seconds.

Freemium· Free tier; Plus/Pro/Business monthly per-user; Enterprise on requestbackground-musiccontent-creator-audio

Fish Audio

Audio · Fish Audio S2.1 Pro (in-house); S1 and S2 checkpoints open-sourced

Expressive, emotion-controllable text-to-speech and voice cloning with an open-model heritage

Freemium· Basic: $10 · Pro: $20 · Enterprise: Contact salesYouTube video voiceoverAudiobook narration