Welcome 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…

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…

In 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…

As 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…

In 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…

I 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. …

Introduction : 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 2020

At 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…

Girish 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. …