Podcasters - check this out!

If you have a podcast, you have to check out Cast Magic in AppSumo!

It added the Speakers way better than Otter.
And it created a Guest Bio.
Then it writes an episode overview with AI for your website and syndicate.
Gives you suggested Titles and keywords.
And way, way, way more!

In 5 mins I was done. The only thing left was website setup.

Suhhh-weet!!

https://app.castmagic.io/share/a568eda4-ce3c-4bf0-a6fe-5a600fef1645

We just took a look at this, and it looks great! Thanks for sharing @barb-mcgrath!

For our podcast, we have been using https://www.descript.com/ which does a good job at separating speakers, and we can add words that it should know so that it doesn't use incorrect spelling for people's names and common terms we mention.

We use multiple other video tools though so the rest of Descript's editing features weren't really something we needed, and having the ability to use AI prompts on the transcript could save lots of time in formatting posts for different social media platforms!

It looks like your share link isn't opening, but if anyone wants to find the deal she mentioned it is available here on AppSumo:

Descript is my "someday" app. I love what I think it can do but I have so many subscriptions already!

👍 We are picking up Castmagic after checking it out. The one thing we need from Descript still is that Descript's transcript has an HTML export which looks nice and allows for an easy paste into a blog post. Castmagic already has the ability for you to write in words and names used often and its transcription quality is excellent. The ability to automatically analyze and ask questions about a transcript is super powerful with Castmagic!

This is so affordable that it is a no brainer. We've been using other mostly free or low cost software with OpenAI APIs to be able to analyze our podcasts before this, but the convenience here will win out most likely. If anyone is curious about how we use similar tools we would be happy to do a video about it.

A couple updates to share here!

First, @barb-mcgrath we've now canceled our Descript subscription and solely use Castmagic and Riverside instead (Riverside does podcast recording and now has text selection editing like Descript as well which we don't really use, but is helpful if needed).

Second, Bryan has a video here about a free solution for using AI with all of your notes and transcripts:

I ended up with Podnotes (which as of this writing is still on AppSumo as a Lifetime Deal) and couldn't be happier. The interface is not as slick as Castmagic, but they listen to feedback and are constantly improving. I get my full transcript, a fully formatted transcript ready for a blog article, my social media posts, an AI chatbot specific to that episodes or all episodes, and more.

Again, not as slick as Castmagic, but I am loving it and have turned people on to it while it's still a LTD.

I've heard a ton of good things about Castmagic too, so I'm not trying to convert. Just sharing tools.

we've now canceled our Descript subscription and solely use Castmagic and Riverside instead (Riverside does podcast recording and now has text selection editing like Descript as well which we don't really use, but is helpful if needed).

I had Descript and couldn't stand it. It did a few cool things, but editing was slow and it was a ton easier just to re-record what I needed to fix. Also, it messed up on a few things and no matter how many times I told Descript team it needed fixing, they never fixed it. The interface was horrible too. Just didn't work for me.

As for Obsidian, it looks awesome but my brain melts with all the text. I have been using an app called The Brain for years because it is a visual relational database that allows pictures, links, webpages and a ton more.

As for Obsidian, it looks awesome but my brain melts with all the text. I have been using an app called The Brain for years because it is a visual relational database that allows pictures, links, webpages and a ton more.

Makes sense, having the visual aspect is nice!

Ironically, we stopped using CastMagic because we were not able to download the edited version of the mp3 AND the unedited version was what listeners were still able to access. I chuckled at Bryan's comment on Obsidian - just add all your transcripts and you're good to go. I'm still trying to figure out how to copy and paste one to test it! But clearly my Chat GPT API Key is not working right as when I use Bryan prompt on a partial script nothing happened.

Ironically, we stopped using CastMagic because we were not able to download the edited version of the mp3 AND the unedited version was what listeners were still able to access. I chuckled at Bryan's comment on Obsidian - just add all your transcripts and you're good to go. I'm still trying to figure out how to copy and paste one to test it! But clearly my Chat GPT API Key is not working right as when I use Bryan prompt on a partial script nothing happened.

What do you want Obsidian to do with your transcripts?

I just finished watching the video Bryan created above and I wonder if you can ask, "Which episodes did I talk about X?" and have it list the episodes or "notes".

I use Podnotes for my chatGPT with my episodes and CustomGPT (and another one called ReTune which I'm testing) to act as a chatbot for all my uploads (I have over 600 episode transcripts uploaded). But the one thing I cannot do is ask, "Which episodes talk about X?" because it can't seem to figure out that I have uploaded anything.

600?? wowwww… I'm only at 125 episodes! I'd love to be able to search, re-use the content, post direct links to episodes and have AI pull out intesting quotes, etc. Generally re-use and create content.

All my scripts are in Otter & GDocs so I can search for specific topics and guests but having AI grab quotes and stuff would be awesome.

600?? wowwww… I'm only at 125 episodes! I'd love to be able to search, re-use the content, post direct links to episodes and have AI pull out intesting quotes, etc. Generally re-use and create content.

All my scripts are in Otter & GDocs so I can search for specific topics and guests but having AI grab quotes and stuff would be awesome.

:D I've been podcasting for ten years… makes a difference. lol.

I've been testing a few AI tools and the only thing I've yet to be able to do is to cite specific episode titles. They can refer to my content and pull out quotes and great one-liners, create new content (for social media posts and articles), and give me lots of creative stuff to work with, but they can't tell me the specific episode title.

CustomGPT does have an option to build a chatbot based on your content, and it will show you the source of the data, so that might work for you. But it does this automatically, you can't ask: Which episode is that from? Or, Which episode talks about SEO? or whatever.

SeekFast is a search tool I use as well that allows me to search all my transcripts. This is not part of the new AI generation of apps, but it's pretty darn great at finding words and phrases to help me find the specific episodes, which is the closest I've come to getting to the source of information.

I am trying a tool called ReTune which is like CustomGPT that allows you to upload docs and text files filled with all your transcripts and articles or whatever you want. They have some big changes coming (so they say), that will give me almost everything I need in one tool. I HOPE!

But the AI world is young, so we'll see more solutions soon enough.

Anyway, monologue over.

@paul-colaianni I am sure there will be solutions for that soon if there isn't one out there already.

It is possible, as we do this today with Heights AI. If it gives you an answer to how to accomplish something in Heights it will give you knowledge base article links and if it gives you a marketing answer it can give you a link to a post on our blog. Plus if you click the "tell me more" button it will provide a couple additional links that it found if there are any.

Actually, the smartconnections plugin for Obsidian that I mentioned in the Youtube video does show you the note title which could be your episode title. If you use the search icon in the list of related smartconnections it uses an AI search that will be able to bring up related note names for a word or phrase, even if the note doesn't use that word specifically in the title or content.

So it would then be a two step process possibly if you used obsidian. Step 1 you ask a question about something to see what it says, and if it appears there is something interesting, search for a related phrase in the smartconnections AI search to find the episode title that talks about that idea.

@heights-platform Yeah, I noticed the AI apps I've used can usually cite URLs as their source, but not "embedded" or uploaded file titles.

I'll have to play with Obsidian. My goal is to create a chatbot that the students can use and ask "Which lesson was that in?" so they can refer to it. So far, I've not been able to do that. Though, a lesson IS a URL, so I may be able to do it that way. But I don't know if that's possible with an embedded chatbot that sits outside HP as it doesn't have credentials to look at the internal URLs.

Thanks for the info. Good to know! Will continue testing and need to play with Obsidian.

We'd like to provide something like that to creators @paul-colaianni. The challenge we've come across so far is that how well it works will be highly dependent on the content you have created, and most creators don't have quite enough content to handle the different questions students might ask.

When you can get an answer it feels like magic, but when you can't get anything or get an answer that is potentially not entirely correct, it can hurt the student experience.

If you have any ideas or would like to share examples of the kind of questions you imagine your students asking, please send us an email!

If there is a way we can make it work well even for creators with less content, it could be very powerful as Heights AI could then also inform you what you should consider adding content about based on those student questions.

I wonder if there is any difference depending on the lesson resources? For example, if creators have transcripts vs not. Or used external links vs not.

@heights-platform I actually don't expect you to create something like that for the reason you just stated: it's highly dependent on the content. Meaning, if you have a twenty lesson course on growing plants and someone asks about the right temperatures to grow a peach tree, and it's not answered in the lesson, the AI bot would have to say "I don't know." And it could say that a lot.

Though, I have prompted my test bots to say, "I'm sorry, I haven't covered that in the lessons. Please send me an email and I will consider adding this!" or something like that.

I have a 75 lesson course that I've added a chatbot to so that students can ask questions. It is not referring to HP for the lessons though, it is dependent on my uploads (PDFs). Same data, different source. And it works quite well - at least after a ton of tweaking on the persona.

I think HP can pull this off, even staying within the confines of the lessons, but I think there would have to be a LOT of content for the AI to draw from. But even with limited content, it could just say, "Hmm… I may not have address that in the lessons specifically. Send an email to __" or whatever.

I get all sorts of questions about relationships since I have a course on that. It's specific to emotionally abusive relationships and I've covered just about everything someone might run into, so my AI bot is pretty smart. But I'm still working and testing things because it can be generic sometimes. And it was a bear to tell it not to go outside the dataset it was given as it wanted to give advice I didn't feed it.