Adding Ancestor Songs and Podcasts To My YouTube Channel

I have had a YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/@RandySeaver) for several years now, and until recently it consisted only of uploaded silent home movies from the 1940s to 1970s.  

I tried adding some of my Suno.com AI-assisted songs in MP4 format to my YouTube channel and it would not upload them.  Then I tried making a Zoom video of an ABC Biography summary, plus reading the AI-assisted poem, and playing the Suno AI-assisted song.  That worked, but the song music was distorted and haphazard. Google told me the music failure was because Zoom audio is compressed.  

I took geneablogger Marcia Philbrick's advice and tried the free Canva.com system to play the AI-assisted songs (in MP4 video) and podcasts (in WAV audio) and that worked!  Canva.com has a learning curve but now I can make a podcast audio or a song video in about 15 minutes.  Thank you, Marcia!

To enrich the listening experience, and add to the visual experience, I have been adding a life summary slide to the Canva.com page for the songs and podcasts.  Here is an image of one of the Song pages:

Here are the YouTube videos that I have added in the past week:

1)  ABC Biography summary/Poem/Song:

• Isaac Seaver 1823-1901 Biography (including the music problem)

2)  Suno.com AI-assisted songs:

• John Richman (1788 1867) AI-assisted Song
• Henry Carringer AI-assisted Song
• David Jackson “D J ” Carringer AI-assisted Song
• Henry Austin Carringer AI-assisted Song

3)  Google NotebookLM AI-assisted podcasts:

• Isaac Seaver (1823-1901) AI-assisted podcast
• John Richman (1788-1867) AI-assisted Podcast
• Devier James Lamphier Smith AI-assisted Podcast
• Henry Carringer (1800-1879) AI-assisted podcast
• David Jackson Carringer AI-assisted Podcast
• Henry Austin Carringer AI-assisted Podcast

Needless to say, these are not big sellers on the YouTube hit parade.  But they might entice my grandchildren to watch them in a bored scrolling session.  

It looks like I'm actually begging for subscribers and views!

4)  What is the long-term vision here?  It still is a video discussion in my voice of an ABC Biography including photographs, maps, a poem reading, the AI-assisted song, and the AI-assisted podcast audio (with summary slide).  That is likely to be more than the 30 minute limit on a free Canva video.  

5)  My perceived problem is that my voice in any video is weak and unsure (it's always been weak and unsure - I can't change now).  I have too many ums and ahs and silent seconds.   I've thought about using ElevenLabs.com to clone my own voice and use that to read the text to eliminate my ums and ahs, the embarrassing silent seconds while I think, plus the occasional expletive when things go wrong. I've often thought that I have a voice made for writing rather than audio and video. 

6)  My technical capabilities for dealing with audio and video are limited - I will probably never get to the point I can edit a video or insert funny images of video clips into my videos.  But who knows?  I told Lisa Louise Cooke in one of her first interview videos in 2008 that I would never do my own videos, and now here I am.

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