Review narration before approval
Listen to AI narration privately, compare it with your source content, and approve or revise it before using it in an episode.
Review AI narration privately before you approve it for use
Listen through your narration draft, compare it with the source content, check whether the voice sounds right, and decide whether to approve it or request changes. Draft narration stays private until the customer reviews and approves it, and nothing publishes automatically.
Before you start
- You need an active Budapest.fm account.
- You need a reusable voice created with consent. Voice ownership or explicit speaker permission is required.
- You need AI credits in your balance. Hosting plans include monthly credits: Solo 250, Slate 1,000, and Syndicate 3,000. These reset monthly.
- You can also buy prepaid credit packs of 500, 2,000, and 6,000 credits from the pricing page. Prepaid credits do not expire.
- If you are still preparing a reusable voice, three designed voice previews cost 75 credits. A consented instant clone costs 100 credits.
- Draft narration stays private until the customer reviews and approves it.
- AI tools appear only when AI features are enabled for your account.
What is narration review
AI narration is generated as a private draft inside AI Studio. You review that draft before deciding whether it is ready to use in your episode.
During review, you can listen to the narration from start to finish, compare it against your source content or script, and check whether the delivery matches the tone you want. If something sounds wrong, you can hold approval and request changes instead.
Nothing publishes automatically. Approval makes the narration available for use, but it does not publish the episode for you.
Review narration
Open AI Studio
Sign in to your Budapest.fm account and open AI Studio from your production workflow. Make sure you are working in the episode where the narration was generated.
Success looks like a narration draft being available inside the episode workspace.
Locate the narration draft
Find the private narration draft created for that episode. If you have more than one edition, confirm which edition the draft belongs to before you review it.
Success looks like a draft you can open for playback and review.
Listen to the full narration
Play the narration all the way through at least once before making a decision. A full listen helps you catch issues that only become obvious across transitions, longer sentences, or repeated names.
As you listen, note any lines that sound unnatural, unclear, or out of place.
Compare it with the source content or script
Check the narration against the text it was generated from. Look for missing words, incorrect emphasis, or places where the spoken version changes the meaning of the original content.
If your episode includes translated or adapted material, confirm that the narration still reflects the intended meaning rather than only the literal wording.
Check pronunciation and pacing
Pay close attention to names, brands, places, abbreviations, and any specialist language your audience will recognise. Then listen again for pacing, pauses, and whether the narration feels rushed, flat, or over-delivered.
Small issues often stand out more clearly on a second listen, especially in introductions, sign-offs, and sponsor reads.
Approve the narration or request changes
Approve the draft if it matches your source content and sounds ready to use. If it does not, request changes and review the next draft before approving anything.
Success looks like a clear decision on the draft while it remains private until reviewed and approved.
Voice disclosure during review
Voice disclosure helps listeners recognise when they are hearing an AI voice rather than a human recording. AI-voiced audio is labelled only on the edition that is actually AI voiced.
During review, confirm which edition carries that label. If another edition of the same episode does not contain AI-voiced audio, that edition is not labelled.
What happens next
After approval, the narration is available for use in the episode. Approval does not publish the episode automatically, so you keep control over what happens next in production.
Until approval, the draft stays private. Draft narration stays private until the customer reviews and approves it.
Billing and privacy
- Credit costs are shown before an action runs.
- Credits are reserved first, committed only after success, and returned after failed work.
- Draft narration stays private until the customer reviews and approves it.
- AI-voiced editions are labelled only on the edition that is actually AI voiced.
Troubleshooting
The narration sounds wrong
Start by checking the source content or script used to generate the draft. If the wording is unclear or contains terms that are easy to misread, correct the source first and then request changes.
Next, focus on pronunciation, pacing, and emphasis. Names, locations, and technical terms are often the first places where a draft needs another pass.
I do not see a narration draft
Make sure you created a reusable voice first. If no reusable voice exists for the episode workflow, you may need to complete voice setup before narration can be generated.
Also check whether AI features are enabled for your account. If AI Studio tools are not enabled, the narration draft will not appear in your workspace.
The voice disclosure label is missing
Check that you are viewing the edition that actually uses AI-voiced audio. The label appears only on the edition that is actually AI voiced.
If you are looking at another edition of the same episode without AI narration, no label appears there.