Product Updates

For Day 4 of Launch Week, you can now export and download your transcripts in a standardized plain text format. It's perfect for making edits in an external text editor such as Microsoft Word, Google Docs, or even ChatGPT, giving you more flexibility in your AI podcasting journey. It's especially useful when you want to share a script with a coworker or client, get input, and reimport those changes back in Jellypod.

To get started, go into an existing episode, click on the ellipses (...) button on the top right-hand corner, and click export transcript.

The transcript will be exported with each speaker enclosed in brackets, like this: [John Doe], with their speech directly after on a new line. When making edits outside of Jellypod, ensure you maintain this format for accurate re-imports.

Try it out and let us know what you think!

Watch the full launch announcement here:

Today, we're launching the ability to purchase additional Jellypod credits without upgrading your subscription.

For customers generating an amount of content that doesn't perfectly fit in one of our subscription tiers, you can now purchase bundles of 1000 credits as a one-off purchase.

To purchase credits, users can go to their account billing settings here.

This new flexible billing model with both subscriptions and one-off payments aligns us more closely with industry leaders and is great for users who just need a few more credits for the month, or customers who are on our Business plan that don't want to upgrade to our Enterprise tier yet.

We're excited to see how this enables more people to create more AI podcasts without committing to larger subscriptions.

Happy podcasting!

Watch the full launch announcement here:

Today, we're launching our Advanced Timeline Editor, one of the most powerful and requested features in Jellypod's history.

This new editor interface gives you the ability to directly manipulate audio segments in a familiar track-based audio timeline, bringing more control and precision to AI podcasting. More of your production workflow can now live entirely within Jellypod, without needing to export your episode to Premiere Pro, Audition, or iMovie for final touches.

What's New

Visual Timeline Interface

Collapsed by default, the new timeline contains every audio segment from your hosts, appearing within an audio track that can be directly manipulated.

You can now drag segments to add natural pauses and gaps between speakers. Need a dramatic two-second pause before a big reveal? Simply drag the segments apart. Want tighter pacing or make speakers overlap? Now you can. Every adjustment updates in real-time and stays in sync with your transcript for a powerful, visual editing experience.

Precise Volume Control

Each individual audio block's volume can now be adjusted. Just click and drag on the horizontal volume bar within the audio segment to modify the volume level for that block.

Also, you can now easily add intro music, outro music, and background music with drag-and-drop simplicity. Unlike before, you now have precise control over placement, duration, and mixing. Background music appears on its own track, and is automatically trimmed to your episode's length, making it easy to see how it layers with your dialogue.

Audio Fading

Just like how you can adjust a segment's volume level, you can also create blocks that fade in or out, perfect for intro or outro music.

No more abrupt starts or jarring endings, your music can now transition smoothly and professionally, just like traditionally produced podcasts. To fade a block, click and drag horizontally from the left or right of an audio segment to see a fade curve appear on your audio.

Multi-Track Layering

One of the most powerful features the timeline enables is the ability to overlap audio layers and mix background music underneath dialogue. The timeline shows each track separately, giving you a clear visual representation of how your audio elements combine. You can adjust the mix until it sounds exactly right.

All of this power lives alongside our signature transcript editing experience and can still work entirely in text and only expand the timeline when necessary for more granular control. The choice is yours!

Getting Started

The Timeline Editor is now available to all Jellypod users within the episode creation flow. To use the timeline, first generate your audio and then click "Expand Timeline" at the bottom left corner of the page.

You can select, drag, and reposition each audio segment, while the audio automatically stays in sync with your transcript. Use the volume controls on individual segments to fine-tune levels and add music using the intro, outro, and background music buttons.

The timeline works seamlessly with your existing workflow and can be collapsed when you don't need it.

This is Day 2 of Jellypod Launch Week and tomorrow we'll unveil another heavily feature - stay tuned!

Today, we're launching Jellypod Teams, bringing collaborative AI podcast creation to organizations of all sizes.

Now you can work together with your coworkers or clients under a single Jellypod umbrella—sharing hosts, voice clones, and podcast episodes all with unified billing and enterprise-grade access controls.

What's New

Shared Resources Across Your Team

Every team member now has access to assets created by other users in their team, including podcast series, episodes, hosts, and voice clones. This makes it easy to hand off work from one user to another without insecure practices like password sharing.

Additionally, multiple users can work on the same podcast episode where one team member can draft the initial episode—selecting sources, outlining chapters, and generating the first version. Then, they can hand it off to a colleague who can review and edit the script, publishing when it looks good.

Organization-Level Credits and Subscriptions

Credits and subscriptions now live at the organization level and are shared across team members. This means each user draws from a shared credit pool, making it simple to manage resources and scale production within your team.

Admins can monitor total usage across all team members from a single dashboard—one place with complete visibility.

Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)

Team members can be invited as either Admins or Members.

Admins can manage billing, purchase subscriptions, and invite other teammates. Regular members are able to access all other resources, such as podcasts, hosts, and voice clones.

Multi-Factor Authentication

We now support multi-factor authentication, giving users an additional layer of security to protect your account. MFA can be enabled in your account settings.

Enterprise SSO & Directory Sync

For our enterprise customers, we've built seamless integrations with your existing identity infrastructure. Your team can now log into Jellypod using Single Sign-On through any SAML identity provider—including Okta, Microsoft Entra ID, Google Workspace, and Active Directory.

And by enabling Directory Sync, users are automatically provisioned and deprovisioned when someone joins or leaves your team—no manual management required.

To get access to SSO and Directory Sync, please reach out to enterprise@jellypod.ai.

Getting Started

Teams are now available to all Jellypod users at no additional cost. To invite team members:

1. Go to "Account Settings" in your Jellypod dashboard by clicking on your Profile in the lower left corner.
2. Click on the "Team" tab and then click "Invite User".
3. Enter their email address and assign their role as either admin or member.
4. Once your new team member accepts their invite, they'll immediately have access to all existing podcast series, hosts, and voice clones in your account.

How Teams Work in Practice

Let's look at a real-world workflow:

Sarah, a content marketer, has just published a comprehensive whitepaper on AI security. She wants to turn it into a podcast episode for their weekly show.

Monday, 10:00 AM: Sarah logs into her team's Jellypod account and creates a new episode in their "Security Insights" series. She uploads the whitepaper PDF, adds a few relevant blog posts as sources, and uses the company's branded AI hosts that the team created last month. She then generates the outline, reviews the script, makes a few tweaks, and generates the audio.

This draft episode is visible to her entire team.

Monday, 2:00 PM: Michael, the VP of Marketing and Sarah's manager, gets a message in Slack from Sarah with a link to an episode ready for review.

He opens the episode in his Jellypod account and starts to review the script. It sounds good, but he notices a technical term that needs clarification for their audience. He edits the transcript directly, adding a line where one host asks the other to explain it in simpler terms. He regenerates the audio for that one change and goes ahead and publishes the episode to Spotify.

Result: A polished, on-brand podcast episode created in just 30 minutes that benefited from both a creator's attention to detail and a manager's strategic oversight—without a single meeting or email thread.

This workflow scales across use cases: agencies with clients reviewing content, educational institutions with professors and teaching assistants collaborating, or enterprise comms teams with writers and executives working together.

Why This Matters

With Teams and Organizations, we're making AI podcasting collaborative and scalable.

Whether you're a marketing team producing branded content, a media company managing multiple shows, or an enterprise creating internal communications at scale, teams unlock a new ability to leverage your organization's collective expertise and brand voice in ways that were previously impossible.

Have questions? Reach out to contact@jellypod.ai.

Today we're releasing Horizon, our newest and most advanced AI podcast audio model. Horizon excels at delivering higher fidelity audio, richer expressions, and more natural dialogue and conversation.

It's designed to make your host sound more lifelike and more engaging, with clearer diction, better pacing, and subtle emotional cues that bring conversations to life.

All Jellypod users get access to Horizon at no additional cost.

How do I turn it on?

By default, all new users have Horizon chosen as their default audio model for all hosts. For existing users, you can turn on Horizon per host by going into your Host's settings.

If at any point you prefer the previous model, you can revert to the Classic voice model by going into the Host and changing the model under "Advanced Settings". This may be applicable if you're used to a voice clone sounding a specific way or if a voice just sounds weird or inconsistent.

Note: Due to it's higher quality and realism, audio generations may take longer than our Classic.

Tips for Perfect Audio

Horizon is more sensitive to context and emotion. If a host sounds too animated or too flat, try these quick adjustments:

• Refine the backstory: Add guidance about tone, energy level, or demeanor. Example: "Keeps a calm, measured delivery."
• Adjust block speed: In the editor, tweak the speed for any block that feels too fast or too slow.
• Balance the cast: If you bring in a high-energy host, pair them with a steadier co-host for contrast.

FAQs

1. Will Horizon change my existing episodes?
   1. No. Previously published episodes are not altered.
2. What if I hear over-the-top emotion?
   1. Tone it down by softening adjectives in the backstory and removing exclamation marks in scripts. You can also lower speed a touch for a calmer read.
3. My voice clone no longer sounds like me! Help!
   1. If the new voice is unacceptable, you can always revert to our Classic model in your Host's settings.

What's Coming Next

We will roll out several new Horizon-specific features in the coming weeks, giving you even more fine grained control over how your hosts sound. Stay tuned!

Starting today, you can now easily edit the hosts for a specific episode, swapping out a host or adding a new one for an episode without modifying the entire podcast series.

Want to watch a 2-minute video instead of reading? Check it out here:

How it Works

We're assuming you already have hosts created and added to a podcast series. If you don't know how to do that, check out this article.

When you create a podcast in Jellypod, you first need to create a few AI hosts and add them to your new show. These hosts each have a rich backstory, name, and expressive natural voice.

But sometimes you want to change your podcast hosts just for one episode, bringing in a new voice or opinion (or even creating a guest voice clone of your friend).

Before today, that process was confusing and clunky.

You had to go to the podcast series, edit it, update the hosts, and then regenerate your episode's script. And by changing the hosts, it also impacted other episodes where you didn't want the hosts to change!

We removed all of that.

Now when you create a new episode, there's a new button on the top-right that says "Hosts". Clicking on it will bring up all your hosts, giving you the ability to select the hosts you want to use in this specific episode. By default, the podcast series hosts are selected - meaning you never have to worry about this if you're not changing your hosts per episode.

Not only can you select hosts when creating a new episode, but we've also added the ability to modify hosts while editing an episode! Just click on the "Hosts" button in the toolbar and select the hosts you want. Don't forget to regenerate the script after you select a new host.

This change is minimal but powerful. We hope it enables more flexibility and creativity using Jellypod!

Jellypod now supports Deep Search, a new way to enhance your podcast with in-depth, relevant source material fetched from across the internet.

What is Deep Search?

When you’re creating a podcast episode in Jellypod, you usually already have the sources your show should use. However, there are many times when the source information may be incomplete or could benefit from additional research online.

Deep Search is a new feature that enriches your episode with relevant, reviewable sources from the internet. When you turn it on, a pre-outline “research” step adds extra context—citations included—to your podcast episode.

How does it work?

Turning on Deep Search for an episode does a few things:

1. We take your existing source content and input prompt to create a research plan, deciding which content areas could benefit from new information.
2. We search the internet for relevant content and extract the entirety of each discovered source, adding every webpage as a distinct source in your new episode.
3. Once complete, your outline automatically starts generating, using both the sources you provided manually and the sources added by Deep Search.

You can view all of your episode’s sources by clicking the Sources button in the Episode Outline toolbar. Because episode sources are editable, if Deep Search includes something you don’t want, you can remove it with one click and regenerate your outline.

Deep Search replaces what was previously known as “Web Search,” providing a more robust and user-friendly source-enhancement feature.

Example use cases

Deep Search is a powerful tool that will boost your podcast’s credibility and streamline the creation process. Here are a few ways it’s already being used:

Enhance Auto-Generated Podcast Suggestions

Like one of our auto-generated episode ideas? Use Deep Search with it to create rich, authoritative episodes grounded in up-to-date, relevant content.

Augment Your Existing Podcast Concepts

Have an idea for a podcast series but want to minimize time spent on Google? Just type a prompt and toggle on Deep Search, and we’ll handle the research for you!

We hope you’ll use Deep Search to integrate fresh content into your podcasts and accelerate your AI-podcasting journey!

We've redesigned the new episode input field to align more closely with common workflows in other AI applications like ChatGPT and Perplexity. Starting today, you can provide additional instructions via a "user prompt" to steer the output of your podcast episode.

Background

Previously, anything that was added into the new episode text box was considered a source, including text. Based on user feedback, we realized there are often two distinct input types used when creating a podcast episode.

The first type are sources - individual files, websites, etc. that provide context for the episode. These are foundational documents that provide up-to-date information to ground the podcast generation in user-provided knowledge.

Jellypod supports over 70 different source types, from Powerpoint, PDFs, and Word documents, to website blogs, YouTube links, and more.

The other input type is a prompt - a way to steer the episode towards specific details, topics, or a conversation style. Until today, the recommended approach was to add in a "text source" that provided additional guidance for the AI model. But now we fully support the inclusion of an optional user prompt that provides additional instruction on how the episode should be created.

How it Works

The new episode flow remains extremely similar. To create an episode, you can still drag and drop sources into the input field which will be processed and used as context (or add a website link).

However, just like in ChatGPT, short text inputs will remain in the text box rather than being added as a source. This becomes your "user prompt", which can be used to guide the episode creation.

We recommend adding all of your sources into the input box first, and then optionally type a few words to steer the output.

Once you've added all your sources and additional instructions via your user prompt, click Create Episode. Jellypod then processes it all together and creates a rich episode outline for your review.

Try it out today and let us know what you think!

The creative process isn't linear - ideas evolve, requirements change, and new inspiration can appear anytime. That's why we've rolled out the ability to add, remove, and edit the sources in your podcast episodes without starting over.

How it Works

When creating a podcast on Jellypod, the first step is providing a "brain-dump" of all the sources that your episode should be grounded in. These sources can be links to a website, PDF documents, or any of our 70+ supported file types.

When you add a source, we extract its content and include it in the generation process of your new show. These sources persist across the entire episode lifecycle – from outline generation to script writing – guaranteeing content accuracy, depth, and creative control.

Previously, the process of adding sources was limited to the initial episode creation. Meaning, once you created an episode with sources, you couldn't make any changes to the sources used. Starting today, sources in your episode are fully editable at every step - giving you the ability to add or remove context and regenerate your episode without starting from scratch.

To edit the sources used in your episode, click on the Sources button in the Outline Editor toolbar. This will open up a window that displays all the current sources, where you can remove or add sources. You can also download the original source documents, if needed.

To learn more, here's a video:

Other Major Changes

Improved Processing Speeds

One of the most important pillars of Jellypod is building a responsive, fast, and fun experience that accelerates your creation process and doesn't hold you back.

We've improved source file extraction speed by over 10x, taking average processing times from 60+ seconds to under five. By making initial source processing faster, we can get you into the outline editor faster and reduce the time to your first podcast episode.

Increased Source Limits

All users now have access to increased source limits! Free users can now add up to 5 Sources per episode (increased from three) and all paying users, regardless of tier, can add up to 20 Sources.

We're super excited to announce a customization feature on Jellypod that will take your individual episodes to the next level!

Previously, there was no way to generate unique cover art for each individual episode directly in Jellypod. Although we create AI cover art for your podcast series by default, individual episodes were left out from this feature.

Now, every episode (and podcast series) can generate cover art using a prompt, in addition to uploading your own image if you have one.

Check out this a 2-minute tutorial to see how it works!

How It Works:

For Draft (Unpublished) Episodes, navigate to the episode you want to customize, go to the "Outline Tab" and click on the Image Icon next to your podcast's title. This will open a popup which you can describe your artwork in natural language. Click "Generate" when you're ready!

For Published Episodes, click on the "..." ellipsis button in your episode list, and click on "Edit Info". No need to unpublish the episode to update your art!

Then, on the left hand side, you can click on the "Episode Cover Art" area to open up a popup to describe and generate your artwork.

Pro Tips:

As a reminder, your individual episodes will use your overall podcast series artwork by default if an episode doesn't have its own image. So don't feel like each episode must have it's own artwork!

To use this new feature, log in to your Jellypod account and start creating your episode artwork. We can't wait to see what you create!