Set up your podcast platform
What you’ll do: Connect Podbean so EBENEZER can upload episodes, and choose what your two AI discussion hosts are called.
About 10 minutes, once
Go to Settings → Podcast Platform and turn the podcast feature on.
Connecting Podbean
Podbean is the host EBENEZER uploads to. If your church doesn’t have an account, there’s a sign-up link on the settings page.
- In Podbean, open the Developer Portal and create an API application.
- Copy the Client ID into EBENEZER.
- Copy the Client Secret into EBENEZER. Treat this like a password — don’t email it around.
- Press Save Podcast Settings.
Buzzsprout, Libsyn and RedCircle appear in the list. Podbean is the integration that works end to end today. If you’re already on another host and want to move, that’s the reason to.
Naming your hosts
The discussion episode is a conversation between two voices. They default to Sarah and Marcus, and you can rename them under Podcast Host Names.
These names get spoken aloud in every episode. Pick something that fits your church — and avoid the names of actual staff members, so nobody in your congregation thinks they hear a real person discussing the sermon.
Choosing voices
Under the optional ElevenLabs section you can pick the specific voices used. Add your API key, press Load My Voices, and choose one for each host. Leave it blank and EBENEZER uses sensible defaults.
Test before you announce it
Open a processed sermon, go to the podcast tab, and generate an episode. Listen to it in full before telling your congregation the podcast exists. Episodes arrive in Podbean as drafts, so nothing goes public until you publish it there — which gives you room to check.