21 audio voiceovers ready; podcast for "Agile Analytics and Beyond" is now live!

On Spotify, Apple Podcast, and other places to follow

Dear readers: Whether you do or don’t use podcasts or audio, please take a few minutes to complete this Substack SURVEY on what and how you prefer to read or listen, and your background. It will help me to better meet your interests and needs!

Following up on my experiments with audio voiceovers, I’ve now recorded 21 episodes and I’ve enabled the podcast integration for Agile Analytics and Beyond!

Not a podcast user? You can also listen to audio voiceovers in the Substack app or on the website.

🆕 Posts with 🗣️ in the title have audio voiceover. Once I’ve saved a voiceover recording in a Substack post and published, it seems to take an hour to a day for the audio to be available in the podcasts.

You can listen directly in the Substack app or browser, or in Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Pocket Casts, Overcast.fm, YouTube Podcast, and YouTube Music. And the RSS feed should work with other podcast players. However you find it, you’ll see this podcast image:

Podcast image for Agile Analytics and Beyond

Audio episodes for our sibling 6 'P's in AI Pods podcast are also published now. Info is available here.

I’m still hoping to someday get the automatic text-to-speech option that is enabled for many, but NOT all, Substack publications. In the meantime, until I settle on an affordable and ethical AI voice cloning tool, I’ll keep doing these audio voiceovers manually. Please let me know if you find these voiceovers convenient, or if you have feedback on improving them!

Lack of automation means that not all posts will get audio, and the recordings may lag the release of the newsletter articles. Subscribing is still the best way to be notified by email or the app when new articles come out.

Audio Available Now (on Substack and in the podcasts)

My policies on using AI (or not):

Inconvenient Principles: No (unfairly trained) AI images

AI without AI

2024 posts here on Substack:

• Write On! Choosing from 7 free tools for more readable writing on a shoestring

• Curiouser and curiouser: More input!

• Sky's the limit: OpenAI 'sent in the clone' despite Scarlett saying NO

• Don't look at the tree

• Too long? Too short? Analyzing my Substack post lengths

• Geese, software, and DEI: Thinking with photos

• Through the viewfinder: Seeing with photos

• The (older) kids are not alright (most popular post to date, on ageism)

• 2024Q1 SotU on ethics in generative AI for music

Pre-Substack posts imported from WordPress:

• Un-SAFe agile

• Tips for job seekers

• What's your DEI why?

• Data privacy at the home show

• Management lessons from Bones

• 5 steps to customer dis-service

• Money and time

• Lessons from a near-snafu in hotel parking

• Logan's Run and measurement dysfunction

• Why even defect prevention isn't enough

Audio In Production

• (none at present)

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What’s Next?

Here are some earlier posts I’m thinking of recording in the future (not necessarily in this order). Shorter new posts will probably take priority over these. If there’s a particular post you’d like me to record sooner, let me know!

2024 posts here on Substack:

• 4 months in: Lessons learned on agile, data, and writing

• What’s “readable”? 16 readability metrics and what they miss

• Adventures in datawrapping: Charts and tables and graphs, oh my

Pre-Substack posts imported from WordPress:

• How applications for 3D user interfaces are like the ocean

• GSD everywhere