Define the listener, not the topic
Audio OverviewsGoes in: Audio Overview
"Make it simple" produces condescension; a concrete listener produces calibration. Swap in whoever you need: a CEO with four minutes, a skeptical engineer, a hiring committee.
The listener is a first-year student who has never seen this material and is nervous about it. No jargon without an immediate plain-language explanation. Assume good intelligence and zero background.
How to use it
- 1In the Studio panel, choose Audio Overview and click Customize.
- 2Paste the prompt into the customization box.
- 3Generate — the hosts will follow your instructions.
Square brackets mark the parts you replace with your own topic or question.
More audio overviews prompts
- Give the hosts opposing jobsThe single biggest upgrade to the default podcast: one host explains, the other is paid to disagree. Adversarial roles produce actual discussion instead of the "so true" rhythm — and the Challenger tends to find the real weaknesses in your material.
- The two-voice quiz episodeA 15–20 minute professor-and-student quiz show from your sources: the student deliberately gets 3 of 10 wrong, corrections come with exact quotes, and the episode ends with a score and the most instructive mistakes.
- The teach-a-newcomer episodeHosts explain everything as if teaching a smart 12-year-old — an analogy for every complex term, abstract ideas grounded in physical examples, and the emphasis on why it matters over what it is.
- Script a narrative arcWithout an arc the hosts wander through your sources in file order. With one, the episode has a beginning, a reveal and a takeaway — the difference between information and a story, at the cost of one sentence.