The maneku blog

Notes on AI co-hosts.

Thoughts on AI in podcasting and livestreaming, from the team building maneku — the co-host that actually joins your room and talks.

What is an AI co-host? (And why it's not a chatbot)

The difference between an AI you type at and an AI that joins your show as a real voice — and why that distinction changes everything about how it feels to use.

How to add an AI co-host to Descript, Riverside, and Restream

A plain-English look at how an AI participant joins the rooms you already record in — its own tile, its own voice, its own recorded track.

AI co-host vs. AI note-taker: what's the difference?

Meeting bots listen and summarize. A co-host talks back. Here's why that's a fundamentally different kind of tool — and when you'd want each.