spOken¶

spOken collects audio and video from other people, and turns what comes back into a finished episode you can publish.

You build a question flow like a form, share one link, and your respondents record their answers straight from their browser. No app to install, no account to create, nothing to schedule.

Who it is for¶

People who have been meaning to start a podcast. The reason it never happens is rarely the idea; it is the calendar, the software, the editing evening that never comes. Ask your questions once, let people answer whenever they can, and press publish.

Small teams who want a voice. A dozen customers saying why they stayed, in their own words, is worth more than any page of copy you could write about them. Collect it in a week, on your own domain, under your own name.

Anyone who wants to be on the audio platforms without building a studio to get there. What comes out is a proper episode with a proper feed: Apple, Spotify, wherever your people already listen.

Podcast producers gathering listener stories, or interviewing guests who are never free at the same time as you.

Agencies and comms teams collecting testimonials from people who will never join a call, and turning them round for a client the same week.

Researchers running asynchronous interviews across time zones, where the recording matters more than the meeting.

The common thread: the voices you want are out there and willing. What stops you is the friction between them and you. That is the only thing spOken removes.

The shape of it¶

1. A form collects everything the episode needs, not just the audio. One link asks for the recording, the written answer for people who cannot record right now, the guest's photo for the cover, their bio, a file they promised you, and an email address you can verify so you can actually reach them when it airs. Everything for one show, one audiobook, one campaign, arriving in one place instead of across four tools and a mailbox.
2. Responses arrive as they are given — answers save per step, so a closed tab loses nothing and a half-finished answer is still yours.
3. A mix is where it becomes a show. Lay the recordings out on their own tracks, slide them against your intro, outro and music until it sounds like something you'd listen to, then export it as mp3, wav, m4a, flac, ogg or aac — or as mp4 or webm when there is a picture to keep.
4. A podcast page puts it in the world. A public page for the show, and a real RSS feed behind it — the same feed Apple Podcasts, Spotify and every other player expect, so submitting the show is a matter of handing over a URL. On your own domain if you want one, so the address people see is yours rather than ours.

Start with Getting started, or read Concepts if you would rather understand the pieces before touching anything.