diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 02b49f4..9f23e2f 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ dependencies = [
     "ai-prompter>=0.3,<1",
     "esperanto>=2.19.3,<3",
     "surrealdb>=1.0.4",
-    "podcast-creator>=0.11.2,<1",
+    "podcast-creator>=0.12.0,<1",
     "surreal-commands>=1.3.1,<2",
     "numpy>=2.4.1",
     "pycountry>=26.2.16",
diff --git a/uv.lock b/uv.lock
index b917e3b..40619eb 100644
--- a/uv.lock
+++ b/uv.lock
@@ -2104,7 +2104,7 @@ wheels = [
 
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-version = "1.7.4"
+version = "1.8.0"
 source = { editable = "." }
 dependencies = [
     { name = "ai-prompter" },
@@ -2180,7 +2180,7 @@ requires-dist = [
     { name = "loguru", specifier = ">=0.7.2" },
     { name = "mypy", marker = "extra == 'dev'", specifier = ">=1.11.1" },
     { name = "numpy", specifier = ">=2.4.1" },
-    { name = "podcast-creator", specifier = ">=0.11.2,<1" },
+    { name = "podcast-creator", specifier = ">=0.12.0,<1" },
     { name = "pre-commit", marker = "extra == 'dev'", specifier = ">=4.0.1" },
     { name = "pycountry", specifier = ">=26.2.16" },
     { name = "pydantic", specifier = ">=2.9.2" },
@@ -2532,7 +2532,7 @@ wheels = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "podcast-creator"
-version = "0.11.2"
+version = "0.12.0"
 source = { registry = "https://pypi.org/simple" }
 dependencies = [
     { name = "ai-prompter" },
@@ -2543,15 +2543,16 @@ dependencies = [
     { name = "loguru" },
     { name = "moviepy" },
     { name = "nest-asyncio" },
+    { name = "pycountry" },
     { name = "pydub" },
     { name = "python-dotenv" },
     { name = "requests" },
     { name = "tenacity" },
     { name = "tiktoken" },
 ]
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 [[package]]