Feb 28Introducing Little Tales For The Little Children Podcastgaathastory is excited to announce their newest storytelling podcast for children: Little Tales For The Little Children Podcast, featuring amazing stories by award winning author Ramendra Kumar. We had done a limited edition “soft launch” of this podcast a few months ago, and today we are launching all the episodes…2 min read
Feb 7Audio Blog: Alternatives to CentOs8 — After The StormWelcome to the seventh day of my #bloggingchallenge. For today’s post I thought of bringing some variation in my blogging. I will embed the audio of a blog post written by me last week. This post was written as a guest post for an Internet community that is focused on…2 min read
Aug 24, 2021The Rise of Text To Speech Services- Podcaster’s Friend or Foe?Introduction — Over the past few months, there has been a flurry of companies who have started offering Text to Speech (TTS) services. Many of them are startups, majority of them are in early staged of growth, and almost all of them use one or all of the Amazon Polly, Google Text…6 min read
Jun 9, 2021Our 2 month journey with exclusive Podcasts for SpotifyIn February this year, we entered into a two year exclusive agreement with Spotify for four of our podcasts. gaathastory podcast on Spotify include Baalgatha, Devgatha, Veergatha, and Fairytales of India. We launched our exclusive series on April 19th 2021. Over the next 2 years, we plan to publish one…Baalgatha Hindi3 min read
Feb 24, 2021Ending our Distribution Through AudioboomAs on February 25th 2021, we have stopped distributing our content through Audioboom. Read to learn what this means for us as a podcast producer and you as a listener. Background: partnership with Audioboom Back in 2016, gaathastory and Audioboom practically began our podcasting journeys together in India. Over the years, we published over…Podcast Distribution4 min read
Feb 12, 2021The Rise of AI powered Writing AppsIn recent months, there has been a spurt in the number of Artificial Intelligence (AI) based writing tools. Are such tools like Kafkai, Nichess, Snazzy and others here to stay? Background : AI for copywriting In August 2020, I had written a post about (and using)Kafkai on my blog. Kafkai is an artificial intelligence based…Copywriting6 min read
Feb 2, 2021My impressions of Podbot: Creating a Podcast using AII like exploring new technology products, even though I am not a techie or do not even consider myself to be technologically inclined for that matter. But I love to explore and dabble with new tools, apps, and products, some of which I have started writing about on my blog. …Podcast Recording5 min read
Jan 30, 2021Podcasts by gaathastory heard over 4.5 million times in 2020Introduction : Listenership numbers for podcasts by gaathastory in 2020 — At gaathastory,we have tried out best to provide quarterly updates for our podcast listenership figures. This information is shared with the podcasting community and also the supporters, champions and listeners of our shows. Coming to listenership for our shows in 2020, the headline news is: Celebrating 4.5 millions listenship for our podcsats in 2020Google Podcasts3 min read
Oct 21, 2020Listener Profiles Jul-Sept 2020At gaathastory, we have always believed in sharing our listener numbers, which includes both ups and downs. Fortunately, we have seen more of the former than the latter since 2016. I thought of posting a short update on the listener numbers for the previous quarter (July-Sept 2020). While we would…Storytelling2 min read
Oct 13, 2020My Interview on Mission Shunya PodcastGirish Kumar, the creator and host of Mission Shunya podcast, was kind enough to invite me over to his show. We spoke about matters related to sustainability, my interest in forestry, and of course, my work with Forest Stewardship Council. You can listen to the interview by clicking below. …Podcast Interviews1 min read