# AI Podcast Creation — workflow skill for voice & voiceover

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Produce audio podcasts and audiobooks with multi-voice TTS, music beds, intros, outros and ffmpeg.

- **Type:** [Workflow](https://skills.varg.ai/workflows.md) · [Voice & voiceover](https://skills.varg.ai/browse/skills/audio.md)
- **Slug:** `inference-sh-ai-podcast-creation`
- **Status:** live
- **Publisher:** inference.sh (vendor, verified)
- **License:** MIT
- **Source:** https://github.com/inference-sh/skills/tree/main/guides/content/ai-podcast-creation
- **Works in:** Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI
- **Requires:** inference.sh account, belt CLI (`belt login`), FFmpeg
- **Cost:** Billed by inference.sh
- **Adoption:** 6 installs, 781 GitHub stars (skills.sh, 2026-10-26)

## What it does

Creates audio podcasts with text-to-speech, music and editing on inference.sh: multi-voice conversations with Kokoro, Dia TTS or Chatterbox, AI background music, intros and outros. Full episodes are assembled with ffmpeg.

## Use when

- An audio-only podcast episode
- An audiobook or narrated article

## Install

- Claude Code: `npx skills add inference-sh/skills --skill ai-podcast-creation -a claude-code`
- Codex: `npx skills add inference-sh/skills --skill ai-podcast-creation -a codex`
- Cursor: `npx skills add inference-sh/skills --skill ai-podcast-creation -a cursor`
- Gemini CLI: `npx skills add inference-sh/skills --skill ai-podcast-creation -a gemini-cli`

**Models it drives:** kokoro, dia-tts, chatterbox

## More voice & voiceover skills

- [ElevenLabs Dubbing](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/elevenlabs-dubbing.md): Dub video and audio into other languages while keeping each original speaker's voice.
- [ElevenLabs Text to Speech](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/elevenlabs-text-to-speech.md): Turn scripts into natural voiceover in 90+ languages with ElevenLabs voices, streaming and stitching.
- [ElevenLabs Voice Changer](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/elevenlabs-voice-changer.md): Re-voice a recording in a different voice while keeping its emotion, timing and delivery.
- [AI Voice Cloning](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/inference-sh-ai-voice-cloning.md): Generate expressive voices in 100+ languages with Inworld TTS-2, ElevenLabs and more, from one CLI.
- [Dialogue Audio](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/inference-sh-dialogue-audio.md): Produce multi-speaker dialogue audio with speaker tags, emotion and pacing for podcasts and explainers.
- [ElevenLabs Dialogue](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/inference-sh-elevenlabs-dialogue.md): Generate a whole multi-voice conversation as one audio file with ElevenLabs, from a script.