“So — where do we start?”
Podcast Host
Sounds like someone talking, not reading — filler breaths and all.
- Male
- American
- Adult
- Relaxed
- Close-mic
- Natural
Sample script
So I've been thinking about this all week, and honestly? I still don't have a clean answer. But let's get into it.
How it reads
Podcast Host is the least performed voice in the catalogue. It keeps small imperfections — a caught breath, a slightly early word, an unevenly stressed 'the' — because removing them is exactly what makes synthetic speech sound synthetic.
The delivery sits close to the mic with a little low-end proximity, matching how a real podcast is recorded.
Written-for-the-page prose exposes it. Write the way you would actually say it and the illusion holds.
Best for
- Solo podcast episodes
- Video essays and commentary
- Interview intros and outros
- Conversational explainers
At a glance
- Category
- Narration
- Gender
- Male
- Accent
- American
- Age
- Adult
- Character
- Relaxed, Close-mic, Natural
Writing for it
Let sentences run
This voice holds its shape across longer clauses, so full sentences read better than clipped fragments.
Punctuate for the pause
A full stop gives a longer gap than a comma, an ellipsis longer still. Use them to place the beat.
Give it clean space
A smooth voice with little texture needs headroom. Duck the music under it rather than pushing the level.
Questions
Sounds like someone talking, not reading — filler breaths and all. It is a male American voice in the narration category, characterised as relaxed, close-mic, natural. Podcast Host is the least performed voice in the catalogue. It keeps small imperfections — a caught breath, a slightly early word, an unevenly stressed 'the' — because removing them is exactly what makes synthetic speech sound synthetic.
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