AI podcast generator for stories and audio courses
Create a story around what you want to learn.
Choose a world and what you want to learn. Gnothi writes and narrates a continuing series that teaches it through the story, like a fantasy cook passing on one real technique at a time. Chapters run about half an hour, and each picks up where the last left off. Prefer a direct lesson? Make an audio course.
Choose a world and a subject. Gnothi writes and narrates the series.
Illustrative snippet
Story · Cyberpunk · AI + businessThe first customer
A founder brings a dazzling demo to a noodle shop just as lunch goes wrong.
Nia's sales demo filled the noodle shop with holographic koi. They swam through the steam, arranged themselves into revenue charts, and passed straight through a delivery rider who was shouting about the missing dumplings. Nobody looked at a single chart.
Behind the counter, Sol lifted an empty bamboo steamer. “Can your fish warn me before this happens?” Nia swept three weeks of beautiful dashboards off the display. Her agent checked the stock sheet and prepared a rush order. It could draft the purchase; only Nia could send it.
She corrected the quantity, tapped Send, and pulled up a much smaller demo: tomorrow's shortages, before the lunch rush. Sol leaned over to read it. For the first time all morning, he stopped shouting. One forgotten koi drifted through his head.
A real Gnothi Series
Continue Without Me
A cyberpunk thriller about a founder and the AI agent he hires. Business, AI, and questions about freedom run through the story.
Hear a roughly 30-minute chapter from Continue Without Me.
Three ways people actually run it
Each one names the settings it needs and what it refuses to do. Pick the one closest to yours.
Run a tabletop campaign
You keep the session notes. Every chapter narrates the campaign back as fiction, and the whole table subscribes to it like a podcast.
The game master writes what happened after each session: who went where, what they broke, what they promised the innkeeper. Gnothi turns those notes into the next chapter of the campaign's novel and reads it aloud.
Every Series is already a podcast. Narration is not a switch you flip; each chapter gets audio the moment it exists, at no charge. Set the show to the Feed tier and you get an unlisted RSS address that any podcast app accepts. Paste it into the group chat and your players hear the recap on the drive to work.
Your players write as themselves. Each keeps their own journal, tags the entries that belong to the campaign, and shares that tag with you. The share asks for a display name, prefilled from their email address; leaving it, or putting their first name there, is the whole step. The character is your job. In the Series' Logbook you add the ranger and set the ranger's IRL field to that player's display name. From then on the player's own notes feed what the ranger wants and how the ranger sees what happened at the table, and the writer never puts the IRL name into the prose. A handful of the most relevant recent player notes reach each chapter's planning; the Logbook is where the lasting facts live.
After the session, write a Series Direction: "the party has decided the duke is the villain; make it true." It is read once, by the next chapter. Allow it to rewrite the premise and it can change the story for good, not just bend a scene. Generate on demand that night, or let the schedule pick it up.
Your players don't read the chapters inside the app; chapters belong to the account that wrote them. They listen through the feed, or you export the finished chapters as an EPUB and hand the book around. Sharing the Series into the group shares its shape, the premise and the lesson structure, as a one-click copy, so a player can spin up their own side campaign in the same world.
How you'd actually run this
- Create a private group and invite your players by email. They need a Gnothi account, which is free; only the group owner pays.
- Have each player tag their campaign entries and share that tag with you at the Full tier. Full is free, and what reaches the chapter is the AI's summary of each entry, never the text itself. Tell them to leave the display name as it comes, or make it their first name.
- Choose Fiction and write the Story arc: your campaign's world, the party, and the stakes so far.
- Under Sources and schedule, choose Journal: Only these tags… and tick your campaign tag plus each player's tag, the rows marked shared with you. Nothing else needs switching on.
- Open the Series' Logbook, add a Character for each player character, and set its IRL field to that player's share display name. Set a gender if you like.
- Set the show's tier to Feed, confirm the one-time prompt that you have the right to publish it, and send the RSS address to the table.
- After each session, write your notes as a journal entry; anything written since the last chapter goes into the next one's planning. Want to steer? Add a Series Direction; it's used once, and if you allow it, it can change the premise for good. Then generate the chapter that night. Audio follows automatically, and your players' podcast apps pick it up.
What it won't do
- The chapter sees the display name on the share and the AI's brief of each shared entry, and nothing else about the account behind it. No email address, no profile, no text they didn't tag into that share.
- The chapter never reads your players' private journals. It sees what they chose to share with you, and only in planning; the writing turn sees none of it.
- A character's IRL name is a note for the planner, not a name for the book.
Learn a subject one chapter at a time
Pick a subject. Get a chapter on a schedule, narrated, taught plainly or carried inside a story. Lessons are written to teach the real thing, and a lesson can check the web first.
Name what you want to learn, whether it's Rust, sourdough, the Peloponnesian War or Claude Code, and choose a shape. A course teaches it straight, chapter after chapter. A story puts the same lessons in a world you want to spend time in. Either way each chapter is narrated and lands in your podcast app.
The obvious worry with the story version: won't a fantasy novel teach me made-up methods? That's what the lesson rules are for. Each lesson in a chapter is tagged literal, adapted or metaphorical before a word is written, and the rule for ordinary education is to lean literal. A fictional setting, character or local name doesn't change how a real method is delivered. A cyberpunk solo founder learning Claude Code still hears Claude Code named, with real project instructions. Knife grip stays knife grip even if the dish is invented.
It keeps track of what it has already taught you. Every subject in the Series has a syllabus tree, and each item carries the date it was covered; you can read it and edit it. A table-of-contents rule refuses to circle back over ground it already covered, and a detector notices when the Series is circling the same center and pushes it onto new ground.
In a story, the lessons stay lessons and the story stays a story. All the lessons together may take at most half a chapter, so the story always keeps at least half. A lesson's share is spent "in scene, never in a labeled passage, a summary paragraph, or a nod," and a lesson that runs long "turns the chapter into a lesson with a story around it."
Segments worth picking for this:
- Teach Me: the next thing to grasp, shown in use, with one thing to try. Not a tour of the field.
- Try It: one concrete thing to do before the next chapter, and the chapter after picks up how it went.
- Book Recs: real, published books only. Where there's any doubt a book exists, it's left out.
- Both Sides: a contested question argued from both sides, then the crux named, and each side told what would change its verdict.
A lesson can research. That is live web search, and if you name a URL in the lesson, that page is fetched and read first: point it at a syllabus or the docs you're working from. Only the lesson's brief leaves for the search. Your journal never does.
Homeschooling, the same use-case at kitchen-table scale. Build a story for your kid on what they're learning this term: fractions, the water cycle, the Roman republic. The lessons lean literal, so the Roman republic in the story is meant to be the real one. At the end of each chapter the kid says what should happen next and you type it into Series Direction. It's one account, yours. Your kid listens through the feed on the family speaker or an old phone and never needs a login, an email, or a profile.
How you'd actually run this
- Create a Series. Write the premise (a world, or "teach me X straight") and list the subjects. For homeschooling, write the term's topics as the subjects.
- Add segments: Teach Me and Try It for a course; add Book Recs or Both Sides when the subject has a reading list or an argument in it. In Fiction the same rows are called Lessons.
- For a lesson with a canonical source, tick Allow internet research on that row and paste the URL into it.
- Tick Schedule chapters and pick a cadence, set the Feed tier and confirm the one-time publishing prompt, then subscribe in your podcast app.
- Between chapters, do the Try It. Write a line about how it went; the next chapter picks it up.
- Open the syllabus when you want to skip ahead or go back. It shows what's covered and when, and you can edit it.
What it won't do
- A fictional world doesn't change how a real method is taught.
- Book Recs is told to name only real, published books, and to leave out any it doubts.
- A lesson gets its share of the chapter and no more. The story keeps at least half.
- Research carries only the lesson's brief to the web, never your journal.
One story about your life, told twice
Write what you write. Run two series on it: one that says it plainly, one that turns it into a road you'd walk for the story alone. Read either on a day you have nothing to say.
Keep a journal the way you already do. Then start two Series on the same entries.
The first is plain nonfiction. It reads what you've been writing and gives it back in order, as prose.
The second is a Parable. Your entries become an allegorical road: waystations and river crossings, a market town, a mountain that stays in view for days, a reason for setting out that matters more than it first seemed. Every choice on the road has a consequence somewhere farther along it. A stranger met at one crossing may come back later with a need of their own. A place three days away takes three days, and the only way around is another road.
Add the Mirror segment if you track fields. It reads what you've recorded, then gives it back inside the chapter as a thing that happens: it takes the strongest pattern in front of it, the one with the clearest link between what you do and what follows, and builds it into the chapter as something concrete. When the record shows the same loop again, it shows the loop; the third time around is more interesting than the first. No chart, no verdict, no moral at the end. You can already see your own numbers; the chapter shows you the shape from a step back.
This is not navel-gazing. The story is built to be a story you'd want next week's chapter of, and it keeps arriving whether or not you wrote this week. Read it even when you don't have something to say.
How you'd actually run this
- Write entries. Ordinary ones. What happened, what you're chewing on.
- Create Series A: Nonfiction, sourced from your journal. Under Sources and schedule, choose Journal: Everything, or scope it to tags if you only want part of it in.
- Create Series B: Fiction, Parable style, same source. Add the Mirror segment if you keep fields.
- Set both to the Feed tier, confirming the one-time publishing prompt on each, and subscribe to both in your podcast app.
- When the road goes somewhere you don't want, write a Series Direction. It's read once, and with premise rewrites allowed it can redraw the map.
- Open the app at least once a week, or publish the show. A private Series parks itself after a week away; a published one keeps going, unless it sits on a Cool account, which still parks.
What it won't do
- No charts, no verdicts, no moral at the end.
- The pattern is the subject and the reader is not.
- Nobody on the road explains the road. Recognition comes from the encounter, not from a narrator or a sage.
- It's written not to quote your numbers back. You already have them.
- If there's too little to say anything honest from, the Mirror is told to say nothing.
How it works
Choose an audio course, a story for its own sake, or a story with lessons in it, like a fantasy cook teaching you one real technique at a time.
Write the premise in a sentence or two, then add the lessons or topics to follow across chapters.
Create the first chapter, about half an hour long, then read, listen, and decide what comes next.
Everything a Series does
Choose a capability to jump to its details. Keep scrolling for reusable audio rolls and the reader and player.
Featured Series
Invented worlds and practical courses, published as podcasts by Gnothi users.
The AI podcast generator
Choose a continuing story or a direct audio course. The premise sets its direction, topics give each thread room to develop, and every generated chapter receives narration.
Optional web grounding. an eligible topic can request web grounding when you enable it. The planning step may make zero or more requests, and the account-level research disclosure applies.
One continuous chapter. the selected material is synthesized into a chapter with a title, teaser, and show notes.
Manual or scheduled. create the next chapter when you choose, or deliberately turn on a daily, weekly, biweekly, or monthly cadence.
Full chapters. Continue Without Me's current releases run about 31 minutes. A chapter can be longer when the material calls for it.
Voices & narration
Each completed chapter enters the narration pipeline automatically. Its finished audio appears beside the chapter. You can later choose whether to enable a public-by-URL feed.
Four preset voices. two female, two male, all four recorded in English.
Clone or design your own. record a short clip, or describe the voice you want. Both are paid capabilities with a credit floor.
Teach it your jargon (free). custom pronunciation rules apply to every narration job on every tier.
Defaults where you want them. set the voice for a whole Series, override it for one chapter, or publish a voice to the shared library.
Topics, segments & lessons
Topics are the clear starting point. In fiction they become lessons the story teaches through what happens, without stopping to lecture. In an audio course they become segments developed across chapters.
One catalog, open to everyone. pick Another Angle, Book Recs, Both Sides, Check-in, Dreams, Mirror, Teach Me, Try It, or Wisdom Tale. The topic follows future catalog improvements until you customize it.
Fiction lessons. a skill, a way of thinking, or a hard thing a character lives through, carried alongside the plot in your own words, on any account. Depth is the one preset held for gated accounts.
Fiction or nonfiction. the mode is per Series. Choose Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Cyberpunk, Literary, Parable, Memoir, or From Your Entries, or write the style yourself.
You decide the order. segments reach the prompt in the order you put them in, every chapter. Nothing reshuffles them or quietly decides one matters more than another.
Written from your journal
Connected to your journal, a Series picks up what you write. A story teaches through what happens to its characters; an audio course ties its segments to what you've been writing about. Your entries and topics set the subject; the app doesn't decide what you need to learn.
Choose how much it reads. no journal, selected tags, everything except selected tags, or the whole journal. The choice stays visible, and you can change it.
Recent entries come first. what you write within that scope after a chapter gets priority when the next one is planned.
Shared entries you include. each share sent to you directly arrives as its own tag, switched off. Under Everything or All except, switch it on in your tag bar; under Only these tags, pick it. The tag's "No AI" switch keeps it out. Group membership alone doesn't connect a journal.
Steer the next chapter. add a Series Direction in the Logbook to say where the story should go or what should change. The next chapter reads it.
The Logbook
Every chapter updates a Logbook you can read and edit, and the next chapter is written from it. It is a real tab next to the chapter text, not a hidden buffer you have to trust.
Themes, on every Series. the ideas the Series keeps returning to, accumulated from the first chapter onward.
Characters, Events, Places. every Series can track who exists, what happened, and where, so a name introduced early does not quietly change forty chapters later. On mobile, fiction keeps these details behind a spoiler toggle until you ask.
Standing facts. one current value per subject: what money is left, who is carrying what, or where the dog got to. The Series updates each fact as the story moves it.
Arcs. a long arc can parent its own beats, so a payoff still points back at the setup that earned it.
Yours to correct. fix a detail, add one the model missed, or leave a feedback note that steers the next run.
Your rolls, placed properly
Intro, mid-roll, and outro clips, placed at a topic change with the timing you choose.
Publish an RSS feed
A new show starts private. Turn on the feed, pick who can find it, and submit it to directories from one card.
Read it or listen to it
Read and listen on web and mobile; take chapters out as text, an EPUB, or audio.
Where Series connects
A Series can stand alone or use the notes, Fields, and shared context you choose.
Create your series.
You don't know how much you'll use it, so you shouldn't pay monthly for it. A chapter runs about $1 in credits, narration included, and a new account starts with enough for about four. More come in a one-time $10 top-up, and credits don't expire.
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