Writing from PodRead.
Essays on how we built PodRead, new features, and the ways people use it.
Welcome to the singularity: Buying a narration with link-cli
Stripe's CLI gives agents single-use shared payment tokens. PodRead now accepts them.
No more PodRead subscription
PodRead is moving from unlimited monthly subscriptions to credit packs — because AI inference is not zero marginal cost.
Pay per narration
PodRead offers the first text to speech API that supports the Machine Payments Protocol (MPP).
New: Use PodRead from Claude and ChatGPT
You can now create podcast episodes from inside your AI conversations.
New: Credit Packs and Upgraded Voices
Credit packs let you top up without a subscription — $4.99 for five episodes.
PodRead Killer Usecase
I've been using PodRead daily for a few months to turn blog posts into audio episodes in my personal podcast feed — here's the use case worth sharing.
Very Normal TTS is now PodRead
Very Normal TTS is now PodRead, and lives at https://podread.app.
Choose your voice
Give PodRead a URL or upload a file; it converts the text to audio and drops it into your personal podcast feed — ready to listen in whatever app you already use.