podcast

Podcast is a Pika Labs plugin skill that produces a one-minute two-host podcast-style video from any URL or free-form topic. It is structured as four roughly 15-second acts with native multi-shot dialogue, Host A always on the left and Host B on the right, and supports optional voice cloning for Host A. Native audio is the deliverable, and captions are skipped by default because podcast dialogue tends to mistranscribe domain terms. It solves the problem of turning a link or topic brief into a conversational, on-camera explainer clip.

Parameters cover the input (URL or topic), studio background image, host portraits, host voice IDs (with Kling preset defaults), and aspect ratio; missing backgrounds and host portraits are auto-generated silently. A cost-transparency gate (estimated 6,000-9,000 credits / ~$60-$90 for four Kling v3-omni pro acts, optional image generation, a corrective retry, concat, and QA) is the only yes/no gate. The skill fires fast after that, with a pre-generation wall-clock guard and per-stage progress checkpoints, and long-running tasks are polled via task_status until terminal. A notable guardrail: when the user names a real public figure (for example in a 'me and X talk about Y' brief), the skill does not auto-generate a photographic likeness and instead uses an archetype portrait, and it documents that inline-pasted images on Claude Desktop must be provided as a hosted URL or uploaded file.

Target users are content creators, marketers, and educators who want a quick two-host explainer or interview-style clip for a topic, product, or article.