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NOTE Host labels: Maya uses Google Aoede; Leo uses Google Puck.

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Maya (Aoede): Welcome to Small Signals.

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Maya (Aoede): Today, we are making

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Maya (Aoede): this episode while we

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Maya (Aoede): talk about making it.

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Leo (Puck): A little meta, but

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Leo (Puck): useful if you have

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Leo (Puck): a podcast idea and

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Leo (Puck): no studio.

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Maya (Aoede): We picked our voices

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Maya (Aoede): from Creative Claw's Google

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Maya (Aoede): Library.

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Maya (Aoede): I chose Aoede, relaxed

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Maya (Aoede): and conversational.

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Leo (Puck): I am Puck, the

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Leo (Puck): cheerful one. ChatGPT sends

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Leo (Puck): both of our lines

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Leo (Puck): to Gemini Speech in

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Leo (Puck): one request.

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Maya (Aoede): One request, two hosts,

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Maya (Aoede): one audio file.

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Maya (Aoede): We can still rewrite

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Maya (Aoede): a line or try

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Maya (Aoede): another voice pair.

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Leo (Puck): For a solo show,

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Leo (Puck): you can clone your

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Leo (Puck): own voice, with permission,

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Leo (Puck): and narrate without

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Leo (Puck): recording every draft.

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Maya (Aoede): Or design a new

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Maya (Aoede): synthetic voice for a

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Maya (Aoede): character.

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Maya (Aoede): That gives a series

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Maya (Aoede): its own sound without

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Maya (Aoede): copying a person.

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Leo (Puck): For this conversation,

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Leo (Puck): Google uses ready-made

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Leo (Puck): voices. Its one-shot

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Leo (Puck): dialogue mode supports two

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Leo (Puck): speakers.

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Maya (Aoede): Now the part that

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Maya (Aoede): makes it feel like

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Maya (Aoede): a show:

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Maya (Aoede): music.

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Maya (Aoede): We made a short

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Maya (Aoede): instrumental theme with

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Maya (Aoede): warm keys.

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[Soft click]

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Leo (Puck): Sound effects add

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Leo (Puck): punctuation too.

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Leo (Puck): A soft click at

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Leo (Puck): a chapter change is

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Leo (Puck): plenty. No explosions

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Leo (Puck): required.

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Maya (Aoede): We put the theme

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Maya (Aoede): before the conversation and

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Maya (Aoede): listen to the transition

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Maya (Aoede): before calling the audio

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Maya (Aoede): finished.

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Leo (Puck): Then we give it

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Leo (Puck): a face. A few

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Leo (Puck): consistent images become a

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Leo (Puck): video podcast with hosts

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Leo (Puck): and changing story cards.

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Maya (Aoede): Creative Claw composes

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Maya (Aoede): those images and clips

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Maya (Aoede): to the audio.

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Maya (Aoede): Subtitles help when people

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Maya (Aoede): watch with sound off.

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Leo (Puck): Every ingredient stays

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Leo (Puck): editable. Swap a voice,

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Leo (Puck): replace the intro, or

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Leo (Puck): change the artwork without

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Leo (Puck): losing the idea.

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Maya (Aoede): Your challenge: pick a

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Maya (Aoede): question you cannot stop

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Maya (Aoede): thinking about.

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Maya (Aoede): Write an honest

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Maya (Aoede): conversation, and make the

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Maya (Aoede): first minute.

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Leo (Puck): Then make the next

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Leo (Puck): one. A real show

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Leo (Puck): starts with a voice,

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Leo (Puck): a point of view,

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Leo (Puck): and the nerve to

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Leo (Puck): press play.

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