Spotify CEO Daniel Ek joins creator and comedian Trevor Noah to discuss the capability forward for storytelling at Spotify Seaside in Cannes, France, on June 20, 2023.
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Spotify on Monday launched a modern artificial intelligence-powered characteristic that can translate podcasts into diversified languages using the host’s possess insist.
The company talked about the characteristic relies on OpenAI’s insist generation skills, which became as soon as additionally launched Monday. The skills can accomplish “life like artificial voices” from steady just a few seconds of speech, OpenAI talked about in a liberate. Spotify talked about this could additionally simply abet make the podcast listening experience extra reliable and natural by inserting forward podcasters’ “distinctive speech characteristics.”
Shares of Spotify closed down less than 1% Monday.
The company worked with podcasters such as Dax Shepard, Lex Fridman, Monica Padman, Steven Bartlett and Invoice Simmons on a pick out quantity of past and upcoming episodes. Spotify talked about the episodes were first and predominant translated into Spanish, French and German, and they is also readily accessible to both free users and paid subscribers in the approaching days and weeks, per the liberate.
A spokesperson talked about these are some of primarily the most neatly-most neatly-liked languages for users who hear to podcasts on the platform, and that the pilot stage has focused first on Spanish and can simply “note speedily” with German and French.
Spotify did no longer piece particular critical points about the price of the modern characteristic with CNBC. A spokesperson added that the company is exploring opportunities to “lift this service to even extra podcasters globally.” The company is already engaged on comedian Trevor Noah’s upcoming modern podcast, as an illustration.
“Right here’s steady the initiating,” Spotify talked about in the liberate.
