Swell AI turns audio and video into clips, blog posts, newsletters, show notes, summaries, social posts and audiograms. What makes it podcast-shaped rather than generic is the intake and the scale: bulk import from an RSS feed or Apple Podcasts, and a dashboard built for running several shows at once.
The chatbot trained on episodes is the feature that uses a back catalogue rather than just processing new ones. Two hundred episodes contain answers to most questions a listener will ever ask, and they are unsearchable audio until something makes them queryable. A transcript editor with AI-suggested highlights and speaker labelling handles the accuracy side.
Hobby is free, Studio $29 for 300 transcription minutes, Agency $49 for 600, with pay-as-you-go at $8.99 per 60 minutes and an enterprise API with template-driven generation. Transcription minutes are the real constraint and long episodes consume them fast, generated show notes still need a pass before publishing, and a chatbot on a back catalogue answers with whatever was said, including things since corrected.
