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Today’s podcast episode is for you. If you are a podcast enthusiast, that means you are planning on starting a podcast or you already have a podcast. If you’re looking for some resources, ideas, or some tips, today’s podcast is for you. Welcome back to Success with Srini.
Happy Thursday morning to you. I got this question a while ago about how I do this podcast. And I responded to that question. But I don’t remember kind of giving everything like explaining the whole process end to end, I don’t think I did it. And today, I’m going to do that on this podcast. Okay, how do we produce this podcast? Well, there are about six stages through which each one of these podcast episodes goes through six stages. The first stage is capturing the audio, which is exactly what I’m doing right now. Then, we edit and I do very less of editing but more processing. So the second phase is processing. The third phase is transcribing. The fourth phase of the fourth stage is the design.
The fifth stage is publishing the podcast. And then the sixth stage is documenting the podcast. So let me explain each stage and all the tools I use to produce this podcast. Okay, the first stage, the first phase is capturing the audio. There are two ways I capture the audio one is using a microphone that is recording into my computer. This microphone is called Blue. It’s called Blue Yeti. And it’s connected from USB to my computer’s USB, which is a laptop, which is running Windows Professional Windows 10 Pro, and the software I’m using to record this is called Audacity, which by the way is free. This microphone Blue Yeti is about 100 bucks, I think $140, And that’s all connected to my laptop and records. Now, I also record on my iPhone, the iPhone that I have is the iPhone 10 XR, which is old, I should upgrade this. But I found the microphone on this iPhone XR to be amazing. I open up the Voice app on iOS and record the podcast. Very simple. So that’s the capture part. So if I’m traveling if I’m on the road, I use my iPhone. If I’m home static, then I use my computer to record the podcast.
Now once the CAPTCHA is done, if I’m directly recording into Audacity, then I can save it as an mp3 file. If I’m recording on my iPhone, then I found doesn’t save your recording as mp3 file. So I have to convert it into an mp3 file. And for that, I use what is called a free audio converter called freak fr AC it’s available online, just search download. It’s a Windows I think it’s on. I’m not sure that it’s there on Mac, but I’m using Windows So download that small little executable and you can convert your M four v extension files which your iOS saves your your your iPhone saves into mp3. The reason why I want to convert it into mp3 is that audacity is what I use to edit the podcast. So because of that CD cannot work with M M four we have to convert that into mp3. Now, if you’re not worried about editing and all that, don’t worry about it. So once you have recorded your podcast on your iPhone, let’s say then what you have to do is you have to upload the recording to a website called all phonic Auphonic.com. Auphonic.com And what this what it does is it takes all this recording the way I’m recording now and it balances the recording. It gives that nice studio feel.
I’m not recording this on a great microphone. I’m recording it on a USB should be recording through an XLR kind of in you know Cable and all that but a better microphone, all that. But then because this is processed through our phonic, it sounds good. That’s the editing part. Let’s go to transcribing part. Once I get the recording from all phonic, which is instantaneous by the way you upload the file, you can download it right away. Okay, the next thing we do is run the entire recording through a website called otter, old p p ar.ai. I upload the recording to otter, and it completely transcribes the whole recording, so I get a text out of the recording. Now the reason why we want the text is because I also upload this podcast on my website. So when you have the text, the website also ranks higher on search engines. Not only that, but once you transcribe the recording, you get, you can extract a good headline from it. And also can extract a good description from it so that you can paste the headline or description when you’re publishing the podcast. So that is the transcribe phase or stage.
The next stage or phase is the design phase. Now for this, the reason why we need a design is that we’re publishing the podcast on Facebook, LinkedIn, and other places. And for that, they need a static image. And for that, I use Canva Canva is paid free and paid, you have both options. But in Canva, we design a quick podcast card we call the podcast image or the episode image. It’s very easy. There are a ton of templates. Anybody can spend five minutes and can design a Canva image for whatever, not only just the podcast but whatever thing that you’re trying to create. This is the design phase. That’s all we do. The next step is publishing the podcast. And for that, I use a podcasting service called Lipson. Lipson is about $15 A month $25 for different peers they have, depending upon how much space you want. And all Lipson does is you upload your image, you upload your audio file, you put your headline, you put the description, and you schedule it. And once you schedule it at a specific time, we publish the podcast at 7 am every day. And I record it sometimes in the night, or early hours, or very just like early hours in the sense like 12 o’clock 12 in the morning 1:30 am 1 am 2 am. Sometimes I wake up in the morning at 430. And then I record so different times sometimes I record some episodes way ahead of time I schedule them. So Lipson allows you to do that. I can schedule these to be published on a future day.
Now, once I published the podcast once I scheduled the podcast on Lipson at a specific date at a specific time, Lipson publishes the podcast. And the podcast now gets published into my iTunes or Stitcher or Google podcasts, different places that are bought one is six platforms where this gets published, that includes Facebook and LinkedIn. Now, this is step five, which is phase five, which is publishing the audio. And the last phase is documenting. And in documenting what I mean is that once all this is done, we take all this information and we put them to put the information in Trello. Trello is a project management, and program management application, it’s free, and I Management tab podcast on Trello. So So I have January of this year, February of this year, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, and October, all the months define all the days define each bay has a link, the title of the podcast, each has the link, the description, the title, and I do that because when people ask me questions, I simply look up my Trello and I sent the link. I talked about this yesterday on the podcast also. So if you haven’t listened to yesterday’s podcast, go listen to it because I talk about Trello as one of my productivity apps. So that’s it. Those are the six phases of six stages of Have everything that we do here for producing the podcast.
Now, there’s one other thing intros, outros music. I paid somebody to record them. You can Google them. I mean, there are a lot of services where they can record your intro outro, and all that. I think for a good podcast, you don’t need it. Many of my podcast episodes in the past had no intro no outro. I added them along the way. That’s not a criterion for a successful podcast. Hopefully, this is helpful. It’s very difficult to put this mentally to see this. If this was a webinar or a video, then you could have seen all these things. I could have shown you all these things. But I still wanted to put this in a podcast, an audio podcast, because if you’re serious, then you can search up all these and you can just by spending about an hour or so should be able to kind of connect all these things together and can see my mindset behind why I do it this way.
Okay, so that’s all for now. Yesterday was a resource podcast, today’s again, a resource podcast. I love doing resource podcasts because these podcasts are tangible. You know, other things. You know, self-improvement is sometimes is most of the times it is nontangible, but these are tangible things. We talk about apps, you talk about structure, and all that. So, anyway, so you take care of yourself, and before you know it, I’ll be with you tomorrow. Friday, talking about something I don’t know keep listening. Bye now.