Creative guide
How to Make an Audio Drama with AI Voices: A Modern Radio-Theater Guide
Radio theater for the modern ear — scripted, cast, and scored without a studio.
Cast distinct AI voices for every character and turn your script into a finished, downloadable audio drama in minutes.
An audio drama is scripted fiction performed in sound: characters speak their lines, scenes shift with music and transitions, and the listener pictures the world. The hard part has always been production — finding voice actors, booking studio time, directing performances, and mixing it all together. The Audio Drama template collapses that whole pipeline into a single creative session.
Pick the template, drop in your script, assign a distinct AI voice to each character, and Pollinator Studio renders a fully-performed episode you can download or publish. Because every character gets its own voice with its own delivery and pace, your dialogue actually sounds like a cast — not one narrator reading every part.
How to make one with Pollinator Studio
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Start from the Audio Drama template
From the template gallery, open the pre-built Audio Drama template in one click. It arrives pre-cast with four distinct character voices — Achernar, Callirrhoe, Fenrir, and Despina — plus a cinematic music bed and transition cues already wired in. You can generate a complete episode from it as-is, or treat it as a starting point and change any part. Everything below is optional tuning.
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Bring in your script (or generate one)
Paste your finished script, drop in a URL or document to adapt, or hand the AI a one-line premise — 'a lighthouse keeper hears a voice in the fog' — and let it draft a scene. Edit the AI script prompt to lock in genre, tone, and structure (cold open, three acts, cliffhanger), and tune the intro/outro prompts so each episode opens and closes in character rather than with a generic announcer.
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Cast each character to a distinct voice
This is what makes it sound like theater instead of narration. Assign a different voice from the 73-voice library to every speaking part — a gravelly antagonist, a breathless lead, a deadpan narrator. Preview any voice before committing, and don't be afraid to recast: the right villain voice transforms a scene. Up to 4 anchors means a four-hander or a narrator-plus-three-character cast.
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Direct the performances with delivery and pace
A flat read kills drama. For each voice, set delivery and pace so the performance fits the moment — slow and hushed for a confession, clipped and fast for an argument, warm and unhurried for the narrator. Add pronunciation rules at the workspace or project level so character names, invented places, and made-up terms are spoken correctly every single time across the whole series.
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Score it with music and transitions
Swap the default underscore for something that matches your mood from the 83-track licensed music and transitions library — tense strings for a thriller, soft piano for a quiet scene. Use transition cues to mark scene changes and the passage of time, the audio equivalent of a fade-to-black. Set your target runtime so the episode lands at the length you want, then add AI-generated or uploaded cover art.
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Render, download, and release
Generate the episode and let the fast async render assemble voices, music, and transitions into a finished mix. Download the MP3 for an anthology drop, or use one-click RSS distribution to push it straight to Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and Amazon Music. Before you move on, save your tuned setup — cast, direction, music, prompts — as your own custom template so the next episode in the series starts pre-built.
Make it your own
The Audio Drama template is ready to use as-is — one click and you're generating. But every part is editable: swap any of the 73 AI voices and set each host's delivery and pace, change the background music, edit the AI script and intro/outro prompts, set the length, and add your own or AI-generated cover art. Start from the Audio Drama template as-is, then recast any character from 73 voices, dial in each one's delivery and pace, swap the underscore music, rewrite the AI script and intro/outro prompts, set the runtime, and generate cover art. Save your tuned setup as your own reusable template for the next episode.
Prefer to start from scratch? Build your own custom template and save your setup to reuse for every future episode.
Tips for a great creative episode
- Give your narrator a noticeably different voice and pace from every character — that contrast is what tells the listener's ear when someone is speaking versus when the story is being told.
- Write stage-direction-free scripts: AI voices read what's on the page, so convey tone through word choice and your per-voice delivery settings, not bracketed '[angrily]' notes.
- Add every proper noun, invented name, and fictional place to your pronunciation rules before rendering — fixing it once at the workspace level keeps a whole series consistent.
- Use a short, recurring transition cue as a scene-change signature so listeners subconsciously learn 'time just passed' without any narration.
- Save your finished cast and music setup as a custom template — serialized fiction lives or dies on consistency, and a saved template keeps every episode sounding like the same show.
What you can do with Pollinator Studio
- 100+ ready-made templates — one click to start
- 73 AI voices — preview + per-host delivery & pace
- AI script from a URL, pasted text, or a topic
- 83-track licensed music + transition library
- AI-generated (or upload your own) cover art
- One-click RSS distribution to Spotify, Apple & Amazon
Try the Audio Drama template free
30 minutes of audio per month. No credit card, no microphone.
Start freeFrequently asked questions
Can I give every character a different voice?
Yes — that's the whole point of this template. You assign a distinct voice from the 73-voice library to each speaking part, and you can preview voices before casting. With up to 4 anchors you can run a four-character scene or a narrator plus three characters.
Do I need a finished script first?
No. You can paste a polished script, adapt a URL or document, or start from a single premise and let AI script generation draft the scene. Either way you can edit the AI script and intro/outro prompts to control genre, tone, and structure.
How do I make sure character and place names are pronounced right?
Add them to your pronunciation rules at the workspace or project level. Invented names, fantasy locations, and unusual spellings will then be spoken correctly every time, across every episode in the series.
Can I publish a serialized audio drama, not just download one episode?
Yes. Download the MP3 for an anthology release, or use one-click RSS distribution to push episodes to Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and Amazon Music as an ongoing show.
How do I keep every episode sounding like the same show?
After you've tuned the cast, music, transitions, and prompts, save it as your own custom template. Each new episode then starts from that exact setup, so your voices, score, and style stay consistent across the series.
