After Hours

Another podcast.  This one, unlike the last couple I plugged here, is composed of entirely new material and is, in effect, the pilot for a series of shows with a similar format, replacing the old, eponymous, podcast I used to do for Onsug.  In common with those other recent podcasts, not to mention the short Nothing is Real series I also recorded for Onsug, I don't, personally feature in After Hours.  The scripts are mine, but they are 'performed' by a dramatis personae of AI created voices.  Most of them are amongst the most sophisticate Text-To-Speech (TTS) systems you can use these days: Google AI Studio and GPT Reader, for instance.  In order to get some British accents in, though, for one segment I've had to use the older, less expressive, voices from Free TTS (which, only a few months ago, seemed incredibly advanced).

As I said, this is a pilot, so it is still a little rough around the edges and includes some features that might not make it into subsequent editions.  Overall, though, I'm reasonably pleased with it.  The Google AI Studio feature which allows the creation of a dialogue between two voices, without the need for all the tedious editing required when you have to stitch together recordings of two separate voices.  It's taken a while to come up with this new format and - as indicated - it is still evolving.  The next episode won't try to simply replicate exactly the format of this structure but will, hopefully, start introducing some new features.  'The Man in the Pub', though, is intended to be a more or less permanent feature - he's also a link with the previous podcast series, having appeared in the last three of those, (although he was never referred to as 'The Man in the Pub' and it was never obvious that he was in one - he did have a name, actually, but it was never mentioned).  

So, some credits for the technical side: After Hours was created using Google AI Studio, GPT Reader, Free TTS and TextSpeakPro.  Music and sound effects by Freesound Community, Luis Humanoide and Universefield - all via Pixababy.  

 

Listen Here: After Hours.