Not all podcasts have to be spoken from the mouth!
Written and published: Wed 28/06/2025
How Pacifying with Auti Auri is going to be changing? - Not all podcasts have to be spoken from the mouth!
Pacifying podcast launched early 2024 and felt my most intimate and vulnerable podcast venture but how I do it is going to change, and this change is in hope to have the capacity and spoons to develop more podcast episodes and the podcast fan base as out of my three podcast shows it is the most viewed on YouTube.
It’s from the podcast’s latest episode that I have hosted, and I have hosted very differently to all the interviews I’ve conducted over the past five years this wasn’t dependent on my need to interject and verbally ask questions, to clarify, summarise or guide a guest through a conversation but instead relied on the resource of the zoom chat box to type out my responses, questions, conversational responses to my guest than words of mouth.
The reason I did this was as I was schedule to record with Sky at 9pm UK time which is 1pm on a Sunday afternoon where they are whilst it was at the point of mid-summer of the days of the solstice where the night was still light I found my social spoons were low and generally fatigued this could’ve been because of the heatwave weather and knew I didn’t have enough spoons to verbally ask questions and knew I wouldn’t want to cancel as this interview has been delayed a few times. This is the first time since hosting podcast interviews that I decided to compromise with my own access needs and my own podcast.
I have previously used a generative modified AI version of my own voice on Descript (the app that I use to produce my podcasts audio, video and transcripts) that has AI integrated into the software to produce transcriptions of an audio and video file, detect filler words and gap etc. This software for me is resourceful and most definitely beneficial is that I can use it to generate text to speech content with a computerised version of my own voice. I understand there is philosophical and moral concerns about the ethics of allowing for a recording of your voice to be reproducing content but if it is only in this case at my own consent of what is reproduced and hat is scripted there is no moral issue.
I have judged using this for scripting introductions and the conclusive post interview episode wrap up as somewhat lazy or unprofessional and somewhat judged myself for that but I am learning that I do need to meet my own access needs and embrace my own communication differences to sustain content creation at my own pace.
Speaking I’m not as articulate, plenty of times I end a sentence “does that make sense?” finding myself mildly-stuttering and what feels like stumbling over my words trying to bring my thoughts together and often feeling I go off-piece when going from a script as don’t feel as good reading aloud as once was.
So, this is announcement to changing the rules of how I host the Pacifying with Auti Auri podcast and there will be changes coming to Neuro Rainbow Cast in due course where I will look to use alternative means of communication rather than verbally speaking in conversations. This is the most natural podcast to try and experiment to doing this with as this podcast has given so much to me of having conversations I was scared to have at first, conversations people are scared to hear, are not heard elsewhere. It’s allowed me to learn who I am and be more comfortable within myself. So, I’m also going to be looking into AAC apps and technology to trial in hosting this podcast and hope to interview people who use AAC tech in conversation on podcast.
When interviewing Sky they shared that he uses a AAC communicative app and device for some of his communication but in this, but it has encouraged me to take interest in doing so. For most of this interview though it didn’t show up on the video recording from Zoom as I mostly had a non-speaking role in the podcast interview for most of our conversation I sucked on my pacifier and it felt freeing slightly apprehensive but comforting as it provided a means of stimming while in the chat and something I hope to do more of.
Thank you to Sky for the recent interview which will be coming out soon and many thanks to listeners, readers and viewers of the podcast show with being the most watched podcast show I’ve done with 610 views on my chat with Raz and 514 on my chat with Lavender Rain. Hoping to do many more episodes soon.
Thanks from Auri
