Writing from PodRead.
Essays on how we built PodRead, new features, and the ways people use it.
PodRead is agent ready
Any agent that speaks MCP can send articles to your podcast feed. Ten new voices, a feed for free accounts, and a cleaner MPP.
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. 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. It's ready to listen in whatever app you already use.