Listen "ASCA School Counselor Magazine: AI in School Counseling"
Episode Synopsis
This I Hear You Say I podcast interview about the September/October 2025 issue of ASCA School Counselor magazine was developed using AI. Here's how we did it:
<strong>Step One:</strong> Took all the main feature articles and ran them through ChatGPT, asking it to condense each article into its key points, keeping it in an informal, conversational tone.
<strong>The human touch:</strong> Edited/revised some of the descriptions to fix some mistakes and rework some of the language.
<strong>Step Two:</strong> Took the revised versions of all the article outlines and asked ChatGPT to combine them all into a script for a podcast interview between a host and the magazine editor to discuss the September/October issue of ASCA School Counselor magazine, which focuses on AI. Asked for an approxi-mately 20-minute podcast in conver-sational but professional tone.
<strong>The human touch:</strong> Edited the script to fix some mistakes and highlight some different things rather than what ChatGPT thought was the most important part of each article.
<strong>Step Three:</strong> Took the revised script and loaded it into Wondercraft.ai and asked it to record the podcast.
<strong>The human touch:</strong> Decided it would be better if the podcast mimicked our own voices, so Angie Hickman and Kathleen Rakestraw both recorded samples of their voices, which AI then used to record the whole script. (Note: this required upgrading to the Pro ver-sion for $65/month.) In some cases, the AI voices spoke too fast, so we used a tool in the program to re-record those sections at a slower pace. Also changed the script to have a phonetic spelling of “ASCA” since it kept saying A-S-C-A instead of pronouncing it as one word.
<strong>Step One:</strong> Took all the main feature articles and ran them through ChatGPT, asking it to condense each article into its key points, keeping it in an informal, conversational tone.
<strong>The human touch:</strong> Edited/revised some of the descriptions to fix some mistakes and rework some of the language.
<strong>Step Two:</strong> Took the revised versions of all the article outlines and asked ChatGPT to combine them all into a script for a podcast interview between a host and the magazine editor to discuss the September/October issue of ASCA School Counselor magazine, which focuses on AI. Asked for an approxi-mately 20-minute podcast in conver-sational but professional tone.
<strong>The human touch:</strong> Edited the script to fix some mistakes and highlight some different things rather than what ChatGPT thought was the most important part of each article.
<strong>Step Three:</strong> Took the revised script and loaded it into Wondercraft.ai and asked it to record the podcast.
<strong>The human touch:</strong> Decided it would be better if the podcast mimicked our own voices, so Angie Hickman and Kathleen Rakestraw both recorded samples of their voices, which AI then used to record the whole script. (Note: this required upgrading to the Pro ver-sion for $65/month.) In some cases, the AI voices spoke too fast, so we used a tool in the program to re-record those sections at a slower pace. Also changed the script to have a phonetic spelling of “ASCA” since it kept saying A-S-C-A instead of pronouncing it as one word.
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