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What is Podcast Studio?

Podcast Studio is where you turn a conversation — either one you've already had with a character, or one you write from scratch — into a produced podcast, complete with your own AI avatar, a chosen studio setting, and a finished script read aloud by you and, optionally, a guest.

It supports two shapes of podcast:

  • Solo voice — just you, narrating a monologue.
  • Open conversation — you and a guest (a character, or a real person you invite), trading lines back and forth.

Before you start​

The first time you use Podcast Studio, you'll be asked to confirm two things before you can pick a format:

  • Any photo you use is of you, or you have the rights to use it.
  • Any voice you record is your own.

This consent step only appears once. After that, you can move straight into building a podcast every time.

note

Podcast Studio uses the same premium video/generation allowances as the rest of AwakeVerse. Check your plan for details.

Two ways to start​

Option A — From an existing chat​

If you've already been talking with a character, you don't have to start over. There are three ways to carry that conversation into Podcast Studio, and they behave a little differently:

  1. The headphones icon in the chat header — always available, in any conversation. Click it and Podcast Studio opens with that character already attached and your full chat history carried over, ready to work with. You land on the Avatar tab first, same as starting fresh.

  2. The "Ready to create?" pill → 🎙 Podcast — once you've had a few exchanges (three or more back-and-forth turns), a pill appears above the message box. Its Podcast button does the same thing as the header icon: carries your character and chat history over, and opens on the Avatar tab.

  3. The "Ready to create?" pill → 📄 Script — the same pill's Script button does more work up front. AwakeVerse reads your actual conversation and automatically writes a structured script from it — who says what, in order — before Podcast Studio even opens. When it lands, you're dropped straight onto the Script tab with that script already written and fully editable. This is the fastest path from "we had a good conversation" to "here's a script," with nothing left blank for you to fill in first.

tip

Not sure which to use? If you just want your avatar and setting sorted before worrying about the script, use the headphones icon or the pill's Podcast button. If you want AwakeVerse to take a first pass at turning your chat into a script immediately, use the pill's Script button.

Option B — From scratch, via the sidebar​

Open Podcast Studio from the sidebar with no chat behind it, and you'll be asked directly: "What are you creating today?"

  • Solo voice — "Just you. An AI assistant helps craft your monologue, line by line." Choosing this skips straight to the Script tab, since there's no avatar-pairing decision to make yet — you'll come back to your avatar shortly after.
  • Open conversation — "You and a guest. Trade lines from chat or write the script fresh." Choosing this starts you on the Avatar tab, where you'll build your avatar first, then invite your guest.

Not ready to choose? There's a "Not sure yet — explore first" option that defaults you into Solo voice so you can look around.

The five steps​

However you arrive, Podcast Studio walks you through the same five stages, shown as a step tracker across the top:

  1. Avatar — build your on-screen avatar, either by uploading a photo or generating one from a description.
  2. Script — write, edit, or review the dialogue that will be spoken. If you arrived with a pre-generated script, this is where you fine-tune it.
  3. Generate — pick your studio environment and render the finished podcast.
  4. My Podcasts — your library of everything you've produced, ready to play, download, or share.
  5. Guide — a walkthrough if you want a refresher on how any of this works.

Each finished step is marked done in the tracker, and you can move between tabs freely — nothing forces you to go strictly in order once you've started.

Solo voice vs. Open conversation — what actually differs​

Both formats share the same avatar-building, environment-picking, and rendering pipeline. The difference is in who's speaking:

  • Solo voice is just your avatar, narrating on its own.
  • Open conversation pairs your avatar with a second speaker — either the AI character from your original chat, or a real guest you add yourself (see How do I add a guest to my podcast?). Both speakers get their own avatar, built the same way yours is.

What AwakeVerse handles for you​

  • Carrying your conversation over — when you start from a chat, your character and message history travel with you automatically; nothing needs re-typing.
  • Script generation from real dialogue — the pill's Script option reads your actual thread and writes a structured script from it, not a generic summary.
  • The same build pipeline for every avatar — whether it's your solo avatar or a guest's, whether built from a photo or generated from a description, every avatar goes through the same composing-and-baking process into your chosen environment.

When it's done​

Every podcast you finish — solo or open conversation, however you started it — lands in My Podcasts, ready to play, download, or share.

Also worth a click​

  • How do I build my avatar — from a photo or by generating one?
  • Why was my avatar generation rejected?
  • How do I choose a studio environment for my podcast?
  • How do I add a guest to my podcast?
  • How do I switch or rebuild my avatar?

Related: How do I build my avatar? · How do I add a guest to my podcast? · How do I choose a studio environment?