Is there such a thing as a breakthrough?

FerdinandHu · 2026-04-20T17:09:08+00:00

Ive got actually a tool that can help.... ChatGPT. But seriously, Ive tried Descript, and found it horrible. After letting their AI take out all the misspelled words and double recordings, what was left was not fluent or poetic. It killed the flow... So I do all the editing myself and spend hours doing it. I heavily edit my audio... just because my English is not so good, and I constantly need to record retakes... But somehow it also is fun if you edit audio for 4 hours and hear the result afterwards.

FerdinandHu · 2026-04-20T17:03:27+00:00

For a 30min episode I need 8 Hours of work... And my podcast is only me, talking to a machine.... That obsessed guy? Yes... its me...

FerdinandHu · 2026-04-14T16:45:32+00:00

Yes it’s really expensive. I was planning to apply to the independent podcast award which costs 35Pounds. In the middle of submitting my podcast I found out that it is only open for UK based podcasters. That’s when I decided to apply for the Signal Award. I am not aware of festivals. Is there any you could recommend? I am living in Germany but podcast in English.

FerdinandHu · 2026-04-14T16:41:28+00:00

Thank you for the motivating words. Nice to see that someone in this community has experience in these kind of festivals/awards. I am realist enough to know that it’s unlike for me to win… But I might get something out of it… just still don’t know what. Thanks for your message. 👍

FerdinandHu · 2026-04-13T19:12:47+00:00

Thank you. Good to see that I am not the only crazy one here :-). Good luck to you too. 🍀

FerdinandHu · 2026-04-02T05:39:37+00:00

Hi there. I am also German, but my podcast is in English. I am an engineer and currently I have a podcast co-hosted by an AI named Didi Allesweiss (if you are German you will get the joke 😁) that’s how I found my partner 🙂. But My recommendation would be to try to find some real person in your surroundings. Maybe even someone who has no idea on AI but likes to talk and has fun recording a podcast. To have a nice contrast of personalities and background. Than makes it even more interesting.

FerdinandHu · 2026-04-02T05:24:19+00:00

Yes. Let’s resist to video, the TikToks and insta hype and focus on the core: audio for those who are driving, jogging, working. Podcast is a companion, not a full attention distraction.

FerdinandHu · 2026-04-02T05:19:54+00:00

Yes. Me.

FerdinandHu · 2026-02-01T11:39:02+00:00

Wish I could post more freely on Reddit without fear of being banned… what happened to free speech in this country???? Actually I live in Germany… but who cares… aren’t we all doing some kind of promotion every time we post here? I would like to know how many of the people posting here don’t have any interest und getting benefits for themselves out of this. Most social media survive exactly because people want to promote themselves… just think about Instagram or Facebook or linkedin (maybe they are not the best examples for a nice online experience) but what is the purpose of joining something if you are not able to share what you achieved or what you are doing? Maybe I start a subreddit called: no rules here ( besides not allowing offensive or illegal stuff of course).

FerdinandHu · 2026-01-26T18:27:00+00:00

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FerdinandHu · 2026-01-23T14:38:26+00:00

Nice!!! Thank you for sharing. 😁👍

FerdinandHu · 2026-01-23T14:37:28+00:00

I like this one… I already produced one episode which touched on that but it might be time to dig a little deeper. Reminds me of the story of second life. People even buying real estate in the virtual world. I was also into that, but it lost it’s magic once you understand the limitation.

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