First Beta: Headroom Podcast Studio
Hey Podcasters! 🎧
We’re thrilled to announce the first beta release of Headroom: Podcast Publisher – a macOS-native app designed to simplify, streamline, and supercharge your podcast publishing workflow. Whether you’re a seasoned creator or just starting out, Headroom helps you prepare, transcribe, edit, and publish episodes with ease—all in one place.
Effortless Podcast Episode Creation & Publishing
Headroom is a powerful yet easy-to-use macOS application designed for podcasters who want a streamlined workflow from audio preparation to episode publication. Whether you’re an independent creator or managing multiple podcasts, Headroom simplifies the process with AI-driven automation, transcription, and direct export to hosting platforms.
From importing your audio to generating metadata, structuring chapters, and exporting in multiple formats, Headroom takes care of everything—so you can focus on content.
🚀 Features at a Glance:
🎙 Episode Preparation
- Import audio files from any recording or editing application
- Convert files into podcast-ready formats (MP3, MP4/AAC)
- Add metadata, including title, description, and show notes
- AI-powered Headroom Assistant generates descriptions, summaries, and structured show notes
✍️ Automated & Manual Transcription
- High-accuracy AI transcription for seamless editing
- Identify and edit timestamps for better accessibility
- Generate subtitles in multiple formats: SRT, VTT, TXT, JSON
- Remove filler words and redundant segments with a single click
🎛 Comprehensive Metadata & Chapter Management
- Set episode numbers, season numbers, and explicit content tags
- Automatically insert time codes into show notes
- Generate structured chapter markers with timestamps
- Organize episode metadata and embed ID3 tags
📤 Flexible Export & Publishing
- Export podcast-ready audio with bitrate, sample rate, loudness normalization settings
- Generate episode files in Markdown, HTML, JSON, TXT, RSS Snippet
- Export structured transcriptions for web, video, and captions
- One-click upload to your preferred podcast hosting service
🤖 AI-Powered Podcast Assistant
- Transcription-Based AI Generation: Create episode titles, descriptions, and show notes automatically
- Chapter Suggestions: AI-generated chapter markers for better episode navigation
- Engagement Optimization: Improve clarity, conciseness, and searchability of titles and descriptions
- Custom AI Prompts: Set personalized AI responses for enhanced automation
🖥 Intuitive macOS-Native Interface
- Welcome View for quick access to recent episodes and templates
- Episode Window with waveform visualization and playback controls
- Sidebar Navigation for seamless switching between metadata, chapters, transcription, and export
- Customizable Player Controls with forward/backward options
🛠 Additional Tools & Settings
- Episode Checklist & Publishing Status (Not Ready, Ready, Published)
- Service Management for selecting and managing podcast hosting platforms