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I was just walking the dog yesterday and a fellow dog lover came up to me, “I’m sorry I haven’t read your Substack short stories yet. It’s very hard for me to find time to read, but I love listening to audio books and podcasts.” Thanks, Substack Team, this is a very exciting innovation - I am sure my subscribers will love it!

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YES YES YES THANK YOU!! I'm SO glad I can just make narrations and not have to have it be a whole podcast episode! Or that voice-to-text can just take over YAAAY!! This whole update gave me butterflies!!

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What an awesome update! I've been thinking about how to use audio embeds, and now is my opportunity to try! A special shout out to any software engineers on the Substack team for this one... as a fellow software engineer I thank you and I see you 👀👀👀 but not in a wierd I'm stalking you kind of way.

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These features are dope! So helpful. Thank you!

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This is wonderful as we literally just decided to do this and were trying to figure out how to make it work!

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Thank you so much for constantly making the life of substack writers easier. I will certainly try out the podcast- and other audio options. That said -- am I possibly the only one here who LIKES to read a piece (vs. listening to it)? Maybe that's because I'm old. I prefer real books to Kindle etc. Just curious...

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HOORAY!!! Thank you! And just time time for a new song this Sunday!! 🎶

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I am so excited about these features, thank you! I started my podcast initially as a way to make my long articles more accessible to some of my readers. I love that this is embedding accessibility options into the tools for writers.

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Great new feature! Love it! Thank you, Substack!

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This is outstanding and extremely timely... THANKS

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This is fantastic. Thank you.

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This is great! Thank you!

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GAMECHANGER!!! I can’t believe that all I have to do is write and now people can listen to my articles if they prefer. Try to make the case for ghost now....

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This is great. I've been thinking about the possibility of adding an audio version for each of my posts, but a podcast didn't seem a great fit. This is exactly what I need.

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This is a fantastic development. Keep up the great improvements and enhancements. It is so easy to do. I may be go back and add the voiceover to all of my poetry.

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