A few years back, I started adding audio narration to some of my posts at my old website. I was already set up for podcasting, had a studio-quality microphone, and the software to do the editing. I wasn’t consistent about it, however, because I really had no way of knowing how much the audience cared for it.
I recently re-discovered the idea of performing audio recordings of my own writing here at The Skojec File in one of Substack’s own posts. I immediately sent an email to the Powers That Be at Substack, asking for an ability not just to record audio as a podcast with its own page, which was the only option they offered, but to put narration right into the post. In a weird case of “Great Minds Think Alike,” they announced that exact feature within 24-48 hours of my request. I’d love to take credit, but they must have already realized that this needed to happen.
I now have a follow-up request for them to offer the ability to paywall the audio player itself so I can make these narrati…
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