Do you know what kind of podcast material you will need to make your podcast? Believe it or not, you really don't need a lot of podcast material. All you need is a recording device and something to transfer your audio file onto the computer, and you are good to go. In this article, we will take a look at some podcast material options that you have to make a podcast.

When I make my podcasts now, I don't use a microphone or anything. I don't even use my own voice. I use something called Natural Reader to record my podcast. Natural Reader offers very real and life like voices that sound just like a real person. This isn't like a lot of the "autobot" programs that you see on the market today. Natural Reader is a cool piece of software and I think you should include it alongside in your podcast material suite.

But if you don't want to use a program like Natural Reader and you want to use your own voice, you should know that you're making a good decision. Even though I use robots to speak my content for me, nothing beats a real live person that people can interact with. When I first started off with podcasting, I used to take my YouTube videos and extract the audio from them to make podcasts. This was a technique that I used to knock out 2 birds with 1 stone.

The podcast material you need to make your podcast includes a microphone and a computer. Some computers come pre-made with a built in microphone so all you need is a computer and you're good to go. There are software programs out there that allows you to turn your podcast into MP3 format for easy distribution on the internet.

More than likely when you make your podcast on your computer, your computer will turn it into a large.WAV file. This is a high quality file type that takes up a lot of space on your hard drive. When you convert it into an MP3 file, the MP3 is a compressed format that doesn't sound as good as the WAV file. Nevertheless, the result of the MP3 will still be good enough to distribute on the internet.

You can purchase a microphone from your local Walmart. I can remember when I first got started out, my microphone was my web cam. I used a web cam to record my YouTube videos. The quality of the video wasn't so good, but the audio was outstanding. I had a program that could extract the audio from the video file and turn it into WAV format. I had a separate program on my hard drive that would take my WAV file and convert it into MP3 format.

I hope I'm not sounding too technical here because making a podcast is extremely easy to do. If you have the podcast material in hand, then you're in business. All that's left to do is to start recording your podcast and to get it up into the podcast directories. Be sure to get it included into iTunes.

Use these tips to make your podcast and getting it distributed online.

Good luck with getting podcast material and making your podcast.

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