People often ask me “how much time does it take to produce a podcast episode? Surely it takes absolute ages!” It really doesn't need to. I have never taken a long time to produce a podcast episode, unless there were major audio issues.

Firstly, you need to think about some depending factors. 

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  Do you want your audio or podcast live video podcast to be really slick with no umms or pauses or breath sounds?

  
  


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  Do you want to add music?

  
  


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  Do you want to add an intro and an outro?

  
  


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  Do you want to add an advert or two?

  
  


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  Do you want to get imporove the sound quality?

  
  


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  How long is the show as well?

  
  


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  And is there one or two people or maybe more?

  
  


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  Are you both in person or talking to each other over Zoom or another conferencing or podcasting program?

  
  

So all these things are depending factors.

For my own live podcast show, I produce it to a medium standard, with some breath sounds, pauses and only a few filler words. This is my basic workflow which generally takes 1 ½ hours for a ½ hour live podcast show:

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   I transcribe the words and edit out most filler words and any repetitions

   
   


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   I then use an automated tool to improve the audio quality quickly and easily

   
   


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   I add the intro, outro, an advert if necessary and fade the music in and out

   
   


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   I then upload the edited audio file to my podcast hosting platform and add a description (show notes) and any links

   
   


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   As soon as I click publish the podcast is automatically sent to Apple, Spotify, Google podcasts etc

   
   

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   Descript: for transcribing and editing the text like a word document

   
   


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   Alitu: an all-in-one podcasting platform to arrange all my clips, improve the sound quality and host my podcast