Audio.co (formerly RadioNewsAI) vs BeyondWords

Audio.co is Aiir's broadcast audio platform for creating ready-to-air content for radio stations and podcasts. From one dashboard, stations can produce newscasts, commercial spots, weather reports, and traffic updates, all voiced and formatted for on-air use. Plans start at $19 per month.

The news module pulls stories from websites or RSS feeds and rewrites them with scripting models trained on your station's style. When sources publish new content, scheduled newscasts refresh automatically, with finished files delivered via download link, Dropbox, or FTP to your playout system.

Ad production is built for quick spec spots and full campaigns. Describe a client's business, pick an AI voice or clone a permitted talent, and Audio.co pairs the script with a music bed from TM Studios' production library before assembling the finished commercial.

Weather and traffic round out the toolkit. Forecasts use WeatherAPI data with support for postal codes, ZIP codes, or latitude and longitude coordinates. Traffic reports cover a defined area with customizable incident counts and pronunciation rules for local road names.

BeyondWords turns written articles into publishable audio through an audio CMS built for newsrooms and digital publishers. Connect WordPress, Ghost, or an RSS feed, and each article gets a narrated version with a branded player you embed in a few lines of code. The platform handles pronunciation rules, metadata mapping, and smart updates that regenerate only changed paragraphs.

Generic text-to-speech tools bill by characters and treat every snippet the same. BeyondWords prices by article and stores audio alongside CMS metadata like authors, categories, and identifiers. That article-first model, plus pronunciation controls for names and industry terms, targets publishers who need predictable costs at scale rather than one-off voice generation.

News publishers, editorial teams, and digital media companies use BeyondWords to add listen buttons without hiring voice actors. Clients include Mediacorp, News Corp, and The Irish Times. Teams can clone editorial voices in 24 hours, mix in music and interview clips, and monetize playback through Google Ad Manager integrations.