How to Use Podcast Studio in MyEdit

MyEdit's Podcast Studio is a recording booth and an editing desk in the same browser tab: press record, bring in the clips you already have, slide music underneath, then even out the sound and turn every word into text you can edit. Nothing to install, so a laptop microphone is the whole kit list.

A new project opens empty, with both ways in sitting in the middle of the screen. Start Recording uses your browser's microphone, and Add Audio brings in a file you already have. We recorded a short intro, which is the quickest way to get something on the timeline and see how the other tools behave.

While you talk, the clip draws itself across the top of the screen and the footer keeps time. Click Stop recording when you are done. The line beside it is worth reading before you plan anything long: Maximum duration: 90 minutes / clip. That caps one take rather than the episode, and each take lands as its own clip, so a second thought later means redoing one piece.

One voice on its own is a monologue. Add Audio in the left rail opens your library: Import From Local takes a file off your computer, and My Library keeps what you have used before under Recordings and Uploads. Click the + beside a file and MyEdit asks where it goes, Add to Front or Add to Back. That is how an intro you record last still opens the show.

Music has its own rail item and its own library. Music opens tabs for Intro, Outro and Sound Effects, each holding ready-made tracks with the running time under the name, Between Grooves, Leaves and Presto among them. The + drops one into the project, and Import Music is there for a theme of your own. Play a few first: a track that sounds good alone can still crowd a voice.

Every clip carries its own settings, and they all sit behind one button. Select a clip and click the ••• in its top right corner: the panel has a volume slider for that clip alone, Fade In and Fade Out switches, then Split, Trim, Copy and Delete. Fading music at both ends is what separates a bed sitting under your voice from one that starts like a slammed door.

Trim opens that clip across the full width with a handle at each end. Drag a handle inwards and everything outside it grays out, while the marker above prints the length you would be left with, ours came down to 01:21. Click Apply when it reads right. Trim works on the selected clip, so the music can lose two minutes without touching the conversation.

Recorded in different rooms, on different microphones, on different days: that is the normal state of a podcast, and it is what Enhance All is for. It sits in the left rail with two jobs. Speech Enhancement cleans up the voices, and Audio Normalization pulls every clip towards the same level, so a softly spoken guest stops disappearing behind the host.

Either one shows what it is about to do first: how many clips, how long they run, and a note worth reading. Stock audio is left alone, so a track from MyEdit's music library keeps the mix it shipped with, and enhancing rebuilds a clip, which can shift its volume. Click Enhance and each clip runs its own progress bar.

This is the step that makes the rest of the editing bearable. Transcribe All in the left rail reads every voice clip and writes out what was said. Set Choose Language to the language actually spoken, glance at the number on the Transcribe button, and click it. Music is skipped here too, for the obvious reason.

When it finishes, the waveforms give way to paragraphs, one per clip, and that text is live rather than a read-only copy. Select a few words and a small toolbar appears over them offering Edit Text and Delete Audio: the first corrects a word the transcript misheard, the second cuts those words out of the recording itself. A sentence you fumbled goes away by reading it, selecting it, and pressing a button.

That is a recorded, tidied, transcribed episode, made entirely in a browser tab. Start Your First Episode →