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This guide is for anyone who is interested in the process of podficcing!
The premise is of a first-timer's first podfic, but it also includes a lot of information that is more advanced than Podfic 101. Keep what's useful to you and discard the rest.
If you'd prefer a shorter guide, a second opinion, whatever, here are some other guides:
- A Beginner's Guide to Making Podfic by EmilianaDarling,
- How to Podfic: A Highly Biased and Incomplete Tutorial and the response to this ask by The-dragongirl,
- A Newbie's Guide to Podficcing by Azdaema,
- The Quickstart Guide of this repository of podfic resources by Ravin and the rest of Voice Team Orange,
- The Auralphonic episode on Tips for Newbies.
All links are available in full in the endnotes of each chapter, just like here below.
I started writing this guide around the beginning of 2018 and first posted it in spring of that year. I got a lot of help from fellow podficcers, but it very much reflects my own experience and perspective. The last revision was in 2026. Take it all with a grain of salt.
A big thank you to everyone who helped with (and sometimes co-wrote) this. Special mention to Azdaema's guide, from which I shamelessly copy/pasted many links, and to the Auralphonic podcast that I linked in pretty much every chapter.