Here’s a piece of software that looks interesting, we haven’t tried it and have no connection with the company but have seen some good reports about it.
If you are thinking of starting a podcast and are looking for a way to make it, could Descript be for you?
It’s how you make a podcast. Record. Transcribe. Edit. Mix. As easy as typing. Take control of your podcast with Descript.
descript.com
Descript lets you to edit videos, tutorials, podcasts, courses, webinar replays, interviews, and many other forms of content.
You can transcribe any video and then apply a few corrections, so you have a perfect transcription. Feed it an article and generate audio with predefined voices, from the text.
In the paid version you can teach Descript to create audio from text with your own voice after just a small amount of audio in your voice.
You can also use Descript to clean up the audio of podcasts, video and more.
Although there is a subscription to use the software, you can download it to try for free, to record/edit/mix audio and video. The free trial also gives you three hours of transcription.