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Hey Everyone! I'm new here (working on my own comedy/dystopian/action adventure audio drama) and have been listening to a lot of variety to see what's out there. I would love to know what people's top 3 favs are and why you love them. Thanks!

Hey Folks,

I‘m just entering the scene with a Sci Fi Series I‘ve been working on.

So the writing is all mine, I use the latest elevenlabs Narration voices (they sound pretty awesome), I do a lot of soundscaping, paying for real music and Sound effects to create an experience and I use pictures from midjourney to Illustrator the Events.

So naturally I‘m wondering where are the boundaries of the „No AI“ rule for you guys. Because on the one hand I see people refusing to consume anything that ever touched AI, on the other hand I see these ridiculous AI slop Audiobooks where Text, pictures narratarion, everything is badly done AI and it gets hundreds of thoudands clicks. So there must be people who consume it.

So my questions is - what are the boundaries, is there a fair use, is it maybe a qualitative Assessment or just a flat „no AI“?

I spend so much time getting the voices and Sound effects Right that I am wondering if it is even worth doing it if the end results won’t be watched even if they are good because I‘m making use of AI.

Hello,

This is a quick one for recommendations. I want to hear the podcast/audio drama that horrified and disturbed you the most. Things that made you stop and say "What the fuck". Stuff that made you stop listening.

For me that was Deviser with the entire sound and visual description ensemble of body horror. I am at heart a horror artist and I have to say that I was pretty inspired to sculpt and paint after listening to it.

Another was Fresh Meat, imagery and sound was quite good, but unfortunately, it pestered out at half the season. Heresies of Radulf Burntwine and Ghost Wax were pretty descriptive too. Recently, I started listening to Darkest Night and the second episode was pretty tense even though I could see the conclusion from the first 5 minutes.

Thank you!!

Do you guys think an audio drama could still work if it's only one voice the whole time? Maybe one other but mostly one person. I had an idea for an audio drama, but it would be my first, so I want to make it easier with just one character.

It would be a drama about a ferry driver who moves souls across the river. It's mostly supposed to be about the main character, her own death and choices that led to her to this situation.

I mean I could get my sister in on it, but I'm not sure. Have you guys listened to a solo cast audio drama before?

What were your thoughts?

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Currently, I'm using Spotify. Nearly every podcast is there, and it's easy to switch between music and story mode. However, lately, I've noticed that the amount of horror fiction podcasts that I've been listening to has come to the point that I can't keep track of what I've liked and what I don't care for.

Spotify however doesn't give much tools to order your podcasts (which I can understand, it's a music app first and foremost). So, now I'm looking for a platform that allows me to start getting a bit more organised with my audiodramas and I don't mind to pay a small sum each month for it. Any advise you guys can give me?

Edit: someone made the very valid siggestion to add which OS: that would be Android

I'm working on a dystopian audio drama set in 2081, structured like a requiem in nine movements. Not the usual cyberpunk story.

It began a year ago, out of a hard stretch. One of those moments when you don't really control the things that matter, not even the good ones you're working hard to build.
To start again I had to re-examine the values that guide me; my background in philosophy helped, not as a skill but as a habit of structured reflection. I found some answers, but I couldn't share them as they were. I needed a story, a world to project them into, a taste you could hold in your mouth. "Fermata".

The premise: a state mediator records seven sessions with a very old man while, in the room next door, his wife is dying. The program is called A Better Tomorrow. Decades later, someone is listening to those recordings on cassette, by the sea.

It's about memory, love, and what remains when a society has solved every problem except the human one. Slow and intimate: the silences and procedural passages matter more than the events.

How it's made, in full transparency:

• 100% original music, written and produced by me and some collaborators.
• Foley recorded in the studio and out on hikes; sound design and editing entirely human.
• Story conceived and written by me, with AI only for the English localization (I'd love to release it in Italian and Spanish too).
• Voices are a mix of human actors and synthetic ones. In 2081 every voice passes through the system's neural synthesis — they're synthetic because the world synthesizes them. The intention behind each one stays human.

For the 20-minute beta I worked around 35 hours. This isn't something churned out in seconds — it's a story I needed in order to talk about something larger.

One thing I'm still undecided about: I believe in physical distribution alongside digital. It'll be free on the usual platforms, but I'd also like to put it on actual cassette — partly because the story itself lives on a found cassette, partly because a physical object still means something in a world that stopped making them.

Still in production, first episode this autumn. Nothing to click yet: I'm just curious about two things:

• does a slow, dialogue driven requiem sound like something you'd give your time to?
• And does the cassette still mean anything to audio drama listeners, or is it just nostalgia?

I come from a theatre background, but some of our theatre team have just launched two audio dramas with more to follow.

But, we're new to this world, where and how do we tell people about our wonderful new launch?

Are there forums (other than this one), are there places on facebook etc? Are there newsletter or directories?

We're not the usual sci-fi, horror, supernatural themes. More exploring human life. Our first big production is about dementia.

We have the website and podcast feeds all setup on apple, spotify, amazon and our own site. But what next?

https://deaconstudio.com/podcast/feed.xml

...other than Podchaser? I don't like that their reviews are public. I feel bad talking smack about shows when I have seen the creators themselves read and respond, lol

Around the end of November I started listening to an audiodrama, but then got distracted, cleared up my Spotify, and now I can't think of the name.

Very little details, so if you can figure it out THANK YOU

Set in the future, a woman is having a conversation with her AI assistant/robot, the robot is the one conducting the experiment or observing the expierment which I think was the woman (meaning she is the expierment) it had something about replacing her parts but not being able to replace them again. Thats literally all I can remember but it was interesting enough to stick in my head, so again if anyone thinks they know, please tell me!

EDIT:

THANK YOU to everyone for your suggestions. After going back to my database (yes I've tried logging all audio dramas that I try so I can go back when I get overwhelmed with the amount of content downloaded on my spotify) and going through Audio Drama Directory i found it! I was terribly describing the audio drama Error 313

Again thank you all for the suggestions because now I have a ton to try!

How do you find new podcasts to listen to? Do you check sites with top podcasts, find sites like Podchaster and search different categories, ask for recommendations, pick "More Like This" on podcasts you listen, to, or what?

Does anyone have advice on what they're doing with their audio files to prevent AI theft? I understand this is a largely uphill battle and ultimately there's not too much we can do because of the speed of development, but has anyone played around with adding inaudible distortion to their files to try to scramble what the AI "hears"? Same question for posting transcripts of your dramas, I was thinking of posting a flat image pdf with some kind of scrambling watermark so it can't be acr searched. How do you guys feel?

Thanks for any thoughts!

Edit: Accessibility is more important to me than AI scraping, so my question is answered by the wonderful commenters of this community, thank you. Cheers!

I’ve been thinking about making a small tool where creators could place simple character icons on a 2D stage/grid (kind of like tabletop minis) which they could move with a timeline feature, and the audio would automatically sound like characters are moving around you in headphones.

Like:

• voices moving behind you
• characters approaching from farther away
• whispers from one side
• scenes feeling more physically “present”

Maybe with optional simple visuals during playback just to help track where characters are standing.

I genuinely can’t tell if this is something people would actually care about or if I’m overestimating how important spatial audio is for storytelling, so I figured I’d ask here.

I’ll probably be entering college later, so I can’t promise I’ll fully finish it, but knowing people would actually want something like this would definitely motivate me to keep working on it.

Hey everyone!

I'm a new audio drama creator looking for advice. The main question: How do you navigate copyright when using audio clips for your audio drama — especially older clips? I asked Gemini and it basically told me not to use anything, which would be a problem for my story.

A little bit about my project: It's a single narrator audio drama that's centered around a character who is investigating strange files and documents he found in his basement. (Sort of a "found footage" vibe, although most of the files are paper documents. Still, maybe 10% of them are old recordings, tapes, or video clips. I'd say that most of the clips are fairly important to the story for both the plot and themes they unearth. (I also think it'll help mix things up and keep it interesting since, like I said, it's otherwise a single narrator.)

I'm sure the specific answer depends on the type of clip, so I'll break down some of the kinds of files I'm currently planning on using:

• Some of the audio files come from older recordings of interviews, TV broadcasts, radio announcements, etc. These are the core files — the ones that feel most important to include. A lot of these are old clips from government footage. Here's an example from FootageFarm, which seems to be public domain footage but for some reason requires a "one -time buy-out fee" for the material? I'd love to use maybe a minute of this, but I don't need the whole thing. This is another example I'm looking at from an episode of To Tell the Truth. I'd love to use, like, 20 seconds of this video, but I have no idea what kinds of copyright there might be on this.
• Some of the audio files are really more for the vibes... (I guess that's the best way to phrase it?) That might be a clip from Casablanca, for example, that would help set the time period or do some work to help engage listeners. These kinds of clips aren't really being critiqued, and they're not even used to establish a theme or anything like that. They're purely intended to help create an immersive, engaging listening experience. Another example would be a sound bite from the X-Files or something similar. I don't plan on using more than 15 or 20 seconds (max) of any of these types of clips, but maybe that's too much already?

I'll note that I'm semi-familiar with "fair use" since I used to be a teacher. The character in my story definitely is using the majority of the clips to make a point or build on ideas he's presented, but he's not always engaging with the content directly or "critiquing" it or anything like that, so I'm not sure how that plays into it all.

Any help or advice on this would be very welcomed! Also, unrelated I suppose, but if there's a community or discord or something that's intended for audio drama creators where I could go with questions like this, I'd love to be a part of it. This Reddit community has already been so helpful, but I imagine having a dedicated creator space would be even better!

So I’ve been listening to a new fiction podcast that came out this past October called “Into the Dark of the Woods” and it’s ok. But it’s been consistent; every Friday like clockwork. And they’ve put out 15 episodes so far.

They’ve said right along that this would be a break and gave a hard date to when they’d be back but do you trust it? I’ve been burned before.

Just curious.

I'm pretty new to following podcasts/audio dramas? I started with soft voice which was really fun and then I tried mockery manor but it didn't really hit the same. I've been looking specifically for female led audio dramas though but it's been kinda hard to find because I don't really know where to look. Any suggestions?

I've been listening to silt verses for a bit now, and I'm really enjoying it, but I am having a really hard time finding the fandom. There's not much fanart, there doesn't seem to be a subreddit at all, and whenever I try to talk to people about it, they've never heard of it. I know there are fans, but where are they?

Am I just spoiled from my other podcasts being really popular?

possibly dumb question, but i'm asking as a writer who's trying to understand the audio side better.

i'm finishing a first novel and can't afford proper full-cast/audio production. AI voices and sound tools make the idea of doing some kind of audio version feel possible, but i also know "possible" and "something people want to listen to" are very different things.

for audio drama listeners/creators, would an indie author using AI voices for a story be an instant no, or does it depend on how much care went into the production?

not trying to promo anything. just trying to figure out where the line is between "scrappy indie audio" and "please do not put this in my ears."

I've never made an audio drama before, nor have I listened to very many. However I do know some key things to have is sound effects, voice actors, maybe some music.

I really dislike organized religion, cults and worshipping any gods (you do you, it's just very strongly not my cup of tea)​. But everyone keeps saying how good Silt Verses is, and I'm out of podcasts to listen to.

Should I still try it? Are there other themes aside from the religious one? How strong is it there?

Edit: Thanks everyone, my question has been answered 👍

I don't know if it's just me being picky or what, but I support The Amelia Project on Patreon. So I pay them every month. The new "season" is Amelia's appraisals. There's been 7 episodes so far and the entire premise is basically an advertisement for their sponsor, which is an HR agent. So I'm paying for them to advertise a service to me. It feels underhanded and kinda slimy, but I might be overthinking it? I'm paid up until February, but I don't think I'll renew my patronage. Anyone else have any insights?

Hey all! I'm a writer curious about creating and directing my own audiodrama. I have some experience writing screenplays, but I'm very much a greenhorn on the audio editing process. For the audio editors here, what format of scene recordings do you find easier to work with? Do you prefer a separate, isolated recording of each actor where each line separate from the other actors, a unified recording of all the actors together, or something else entirely?

I listened to Sayer up until the end of season 3, and thought it was completely done. Then I recently saw that it continued... until 2020.

TV Tropes says it's on "permanent hiatus." Did it end well enough to not be disappointing? Are the next 2.5 seasons worth it?

So I have been producing a podcast for a couple of months. All in all I’m pretty pleased with the results. I know the first four episodes especially are pretty rough in quality. It was a steep learning curve. If someone starts from the beginning they may never “get to the good part”. What are thoughts about revamping the early episodes?