This podcast episode elucidates the capabilities of 11Labs IO, an innovative artificial intelligence program designed to transform written content into vocal renditions, thereby enhancing the auditory experience of our audience. I delve into my personal exploration of this tool, detailing my engagement with Perplexity, which facilitates the search for individuals seeking audio and video editing services for podcasts. Throughout the discourse, I outline the iterative process of utilizing this advanced technology, including the challenges I encountered and the insights gained regarding market trends and user demands in the podcasting sphere. Furthermore, I emphasize the significance of adapting our strategies to optimize results, such as broadening search parameters and incorporating additional platforms like Discord and Substack. In conclusion, I invite listeners to contemplate the potential of artificial intelligence in augmenting their creative endeavors, offering assistance through my editing services at Gray Hair Productions.

The discourse presented within this episode encapsulates a profound exploration into the capabilities of 11Labs IO, an avant-garde artificial intelligence program designed to transmute written text into articulate vocal renditions. The speaker, Gray Hair Dave, elucidates the myriad functionalities of this innovative tool, highlighting its capacity to not only replicate voices but to augment the auditory experience of the listener. Furthermore, the speaker invites the audience to engage with the program through affiliate links, thereby fostering a symbiotic relationship between the listener's exploration of artificial intelligence and the sustenance of the podcast's operational costs. Gray Hair Dave's narration is interspersed with personal anecdotes, thereby rendering the technical discourse more relatable and engaging. He reflects on the utility of the program in enhancing his own podcast production, demonstrating a practical application of technology in the realm of audio editing and voice modulation. Through this exposition, we glean insights into the evolving landscape of artificial intelligence and its implications for content creators, thereby positioning the episode as both informative and pertinent to contemporary discussions surrounding technology and media production.

Takeaways:

• The podcast discusses the use of ElevenLabs IO, an artificial intelligence program that converts text to voice, enhancing content creation.
• In the episode, the speaker shares insights on utilizing Perplexity, an AI tool designed for internet searching and data collection.
• The speaker emphasizes the importance of setting up effective alerts and searches to identify potential audio and video editing opportunities.
• Listeners are encouraged to explore various platforms like Reddit, LinkedIn, and Discord for finding relevant work in podcast editing.
• The episode highlights the iterative process of refining AI searches to improve the quality and relevance of the leads generated.
• Finally, the speaker shares personal anecdotes about family interactions and encourages listeners to engage with their community during the holiday season.

Links referenced in this episode:

• 11labs.io
• grayhairproductions.com
• boomerpodcasters.com
• fiveMinuteswithgrayhairdave.com
• https://www.perplexity.ai/pro

Companies mentioned in this episode:

• 11Labs IO
• Perplexity
• Perplexity Labs
• Descript
• Gray Hair Productions
• Boomer Podcasters

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Welcome to Five Minutes with Gray Hair Dave.

He has gray hair and he has a gray beard and he also wears glasses like the guy in the artwork.

Oh, and the guy in the artwork is better looking.

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Here is Gray Hair Dave.

Well, well, well, folks.

Welcome back to Five Minutes with Gray Hair Dave.

Yep, that's me.

Yep.

You heard the intro, right?

Yeah.

How are you today, folks?

Hope you're doing well.

Hey, I wanted to.

Talk to you a little bit about 11Labs IO.

Now, 11Labs IO is a artificial intelligence program that will take your written word and, and make it into a voice like you just heard or the other intros you've heard in the past from me.

Or it will.

It will record your voice and change it for you or make it different or however you want to do it.

Go to the show notes in this podcast and look up and hit, you know, Tap on the ElevenLabs IE link.

It'll take you to ElevenLabs IO.

Play with it a little bit and if you decide to use it, if you use that link, I am a affiliate, so I'll get a little bit of cash back from, from your purchase, which would help to free some of the costs here on Five Minutes with Gray here, Dave.

So other than that, how are we doing?

We are recording video today because I wanted to show a few things.

On.

On my screen so that you all get to see what's going on.

Okay.

Last week I was talking about.

Perplexity and during that I had mentioned that I was going to tell you and show you the results.

What I have put into perplexity, Let me, for those of you who are just listening on the audio, I'll tell you what's going on as we do it.

But let me, let me change over here to.

This on.

On my screen.

This is Perplexity over here, folks.

All this over here.

So what we've got.

Let me move this screen out of the way.

What we've got here is the.

Perplexity app.

And what I put in was that I was looking for a particular.

Way to have Perplexity search the Internet search, Reddit.

Linked and Facebook, Instagram, Twitter threads and places like that to find.

People who were looking for audio or video editors for podcasts.

It didn't have to be just for podcasts, but it went into these forums and it would look for it.

And this is what it came back for on, on doing it well.

And I remember I told you I had to, to have it do this.

I needed it to be in a pro Or a prower.

It needed to be in a pro version of Perplexity.

So I had to get Perplexity Labs, which I did.

And Perplexity Labs is very, very intuitive.

It's very, very good.

I am, I enjoyed it.

And it's, it worked really well.

You too can get it.

It's not hard to get, but what I did then is I, I started my agent up in real time.

I wanted it to look for.

For these things that I was looking for.

And I just mentioned, you know, the people looking for.

For editors.

And then I wanted it to send it over to me or back to me.

And I wanted this to be done daily around 8 o' clock in the morning.

I wanted it to be sent back to me so I could put it in a, you know, in a, in a spreadsheet of some sort.

And it started doing all these things how it gave me how to set it up, you know, perfectly, and all these.

It was, it was advanced, but it was, it would give me, you know, options on which way to go.

And I know that this is kind of hard to read here, but it's, it's not bad.

And then I started, I mean, I told you, I let it run for a week before I did anything to it.

So I started getting the emails daily.

Okay, so here's where we're at on it right now with Perplexity.

This is the Perplexity browser.

It's actually called Comet, but it's Perplexity that I'm using.

And it's, it's very, very good.

And you can use it just like any other.

Browser.

But I use it specifically for, for this or any other AI that I'm going to be working on.

Now, when you go and you look at other things on here, it'll give you different aspects, but, but what it came up with.

And let me move over here to.

What it's coming back with now.

Perplexity sent me an email every day.

Now today, here's one where somebody is actually looking for somebody to edit an hour and a half podcast for a rate of $70 an hour.

So that'd be about $105 or $115, which is fine.

It's not bad for an hour and a half if it's just cleanup, which is what he's asking for.

But let me go back over here.

And the very first day, here's what it came back with.

Reddit lead with buying Internet.

It went through LinkedIn.

Chris Stone was looking for one on Twitter.

There's no suitable Activity.

Day two Reddit, you know it's, it came back with one that they're looking for $30 an hour immediate start, but they're looking for somebody to, to, to hire permanently.

And there's another one from Reddit and the third day which would have been a Tuesday last week.

No leads found.

No individuals or small businesses posting clear or request current trends.

Recommend recommendations to increase leads.

Broaden search to three to seven day window makes sense.

Adjust include adjacent phrases such and add sources like Facebook groups and Discord servers, which makes sense.

Here's day four it is not possible to reliably locate or verify podcasts from the last 24 hours time window filters.

Day 5 no fresh leads results.

Most hits were older threads Suggestions set up automated hourly or daily searches.

Saved alerts on Reddit Next and also LinkedIn.

Here we go.

Day 6 right 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 yes, platform limits explained.

The tool cannot, the tools cannot reliably pull Only the last 24 hours.

Posts across Reddit, LinkedIn, Twitter X and forums because search filters, logins and rate limits block real time access.

Manually search flow lead qualification outreach.

So it's, it's telling me that I've reached some limits on what I'm trying to do.

Which is, is a good test.

It's a good, it really is.

It tells me.

You know the one I had yesterday, it says set up, monitoring, respond response recommends Google alerts, Reddit, RSS and creator focus spaces like our podcasting on Reddit and LinkedIn groups.

Demand still exists.

Recent but older posts show strong needs.

Now you got to remember last week when I was looking at this.

We were looking at only.

We were looking at the week of Thanksgiving which is not really a great place to just be looking.

So let me try and get ECAMM back here.

Let me minimize you.

Oh.

Let'S go back here to you now.

With that being said.

All right, this is, I mean this is what's going on basically.

But with that being said, I need to go in and I need to update what I'm going to say to perplexity.

So I am going to go in and I'm going to add that I want it to go back three to seven days.

I'm only going to run it every other day.

I'm going to add Google alerts, I'm going to add more specifics when it comes to LinkedIn and Reddit.

And I'm going to add Discord as well as substack.

I want it to start searching substack now.

Substack is for posting things, but that doesn't mean that they may not have something there.

We're going to find out, but I want to find out this way so we have that option available to us too.

I am going to reply to the person who was looking for the $70 an hour.

But realistically, if you think about this, all I'm doing is getting rid of the ums and odds.

Yeah, I can do all that.

And I can do that relatively quickly just using Descript.

But descript is something that I pay for when it comes to editing things.

I also like to listen to the whole thing, see what I got to do.

I'll put markers in.

Or there's a program that I use called.

It's just for.

Specifically for marking up audio.

Now that could be for music or anything else.

It's not tracks, but it's what it does is I can.

Okay, marker here, marker here, marker here.

Here's where I need to take out, take out, take out.

And then I can edit it myself and get it done rather quickly.

But we're talking two and a half, two to two and a half, maybe three hours to get that all done for an hour and a half show.

That's what people don't understand.

And I, I don't, I don't blame them for this because I was the same way in the very beginning, too.

When I first started my podcasting journey, I would take.

Oh my gosh, if I had a 45 minute podcast, it would take me three, three and a half hours to edit it.

So I go back, I play with it, I get rid of the ums and the odds, and then I go back and I start doing the, the enhancing, you know, the equalization, the compression and things such as that, you know, and noise reduction.

And so those things will take a little bit of time.

But now I'm doing multiple things at once.

I'm eqing as I am, you know, editing ums and haws and dead spaces and things such as that.

You know, as you get better in your craft, you do more things at one time, which is just nature.

It's the way things work.

It's the way I work.

So I wanted you to know all about that.

That's what's happening with the.

The AI helping me find work for my business.

I thought you'd like to hear that and I thought that you'd like to see some of it.

Now, me sharing my screen and recording it at the same time is, Is new to me, but you guys are going to be there with me as I go through this, I'm going to edit it and it's going to look better.

You know, we'll get it out on YouTube in a day or two.

But I wanted you to see what was going on.

So what else is going on, folks, really quickly?

There's.

There's not much else going on in my life.

I mean, I've been living.

Oh, yeah, here we go.

Yes, yes, yes.

My brother was down from up north this last week, and he was staying with his daughter.

And we got together on Saturday and we went out to a nice restaurant, had some.

Had some Mexican food.

Then we.

We went to a bar at Universal Studios.

It was.

Oh, it was Pete's Piano Bar, but it was basically an Irish bar, but they had dueling pianos.

And we were there for, oh, I don't know, two or three hours.

It was a really fun time.

And, you know, you request songs and.

And these people could play anything.

I was very, very amazed.

I mean, just.

And then helping each other out and singing with each other and against each other.

It was a lot of fun.

If, if you ever have a chance to go to a dueling Vienna piano bar, I suggest you do it.

I really do.

It's a lot of fun.

The crowd gets involved, you know, especially when there's drinking involved there, the crowd's going to get involved.

So I think the whole time we were there, I nursed a beer because I really wasn't in the mood for beer, but I wasn't in the mood for Diet Coke.

So anyways.

That'S what's new and happening down here in Central Florida from.

For all of you around the world.

Now, if you know somebody who needs an editor or you need an editor, go to Gray Hair Productions.

Let me help you out.

Let's talk about it.

Let me give you back some of your time.

If you're a podcaster, if you're a new podcaster and you're just starting out, you want to know what to do, I'm here for you.

Let me help you.gray hair productions.com.

also, folks, if you know somebody or even yourself, if you want to start a podcast, go to Boomer Podcasters.

It's for gen.

It's for baby boomers.

Gen Xers, Gen Z, Gen Y.

It's all audio right now, but there's.

There's video, it's been recorded.

I just haven't put it out.

I put a bunch out at one time and I'm recording more, so there's that.

If you want to do that, go to boomer podcasters.com you can leave me a message saying, hey, Gray or Dave, dude, love what you're doing or hey, great Dave.

What's going on, buddy?

Do whatever you want.

Also, if you're something you want to hear about or you're interested in hearing about or want to hear me talk about, go to five Minutes with Gray Hair Dave dot com.

That's the number five minutes of Gray Hair Dave dot com.

Leave me a message.

Either go to the Contact me page, leave me a message there, or you can go to the little microphone in the bottom right hand corner of every page and leave me a note.

Leave me a voicemail.

I'll get back in touch with you on YouTube.

You can find me.

You can leave a comment there.

There was a nice person who left me a comment a week or so ago and said that they had seen my license plate in the parking lot.

How cool is that?

Somebody was in a parking lot and saw my license plate.

Because on my license plate I've got that right there, that little guy, you know, for those of you in audio, I'm pointing to my, my logo Five Minutes with Gray Hair Dave podcast.

I got it made onto a license plate and it's on the very front of my car.

So it's on a black background.

Looks really cool.

I like it because I've got a blue car, so that kind of just stands out with a silver frame around it.

It looks pretty cool.

Also, folks, if you know somebody who doesn't know what a podcast is, do me a favor, take them by the hand, grab their phone and show them how to find and where podcasts are.

Show them how easy it is to find different genres.

Use 5 minutes of gray Hair Dave as an example.

Have them pull it up, have them follow or subscribe, and I'll appreciate it.

All podcasters will.

So there's that.

Also, one more thing.

Don't ever forget when you're out and about today, especially in this holiday season when things are tense and people are, they're wound a little tight, you know, sometimes they really do as closer and closer it gets to Christmas.

Smile, wave, say hi.

You're going to make their day.

So on behalf of Gray Here, Dave here in Gray Here Studios, you all have a great week and I'll talk to you next week and we'll let you know what's going on with perplexity.

See you later.

Bye bye.