Spotify this week announced an AI translation feature for podcasters that could give it an edge over Apple’s podcasting platform. Voice Translation for podcasts uses artificial intelligence to translate podcasts into additional languages using the original podcaster’s voice.
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Higher Ground — Barack and Michelle Obama’s production company — signed an exclusive multi-year first-look production deal with Audible, Amazon’s audiobook and podcast service. It gives Audible first dibs on Higher Ground content and includes multiple audio projects that will be distributed worldwide.
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This Wednesday, March 16, Earfluence is launching its second studio – this time out of the Durham-based startup hub American Underground with an eight-hour, “podcast marathon” featuring a “who’s who” in the Triangle’s entrepreneurial scene. Find out more here.
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Daniel Ek, the chief executive of Spotify, addressed Joe Rogan’s past use of racial slurs on Sunday night, telling staff in a memo that while he found the comments “incredibly hurtful” and inconsistent with company values, he did not believe “silencing” the podcaster was the answer.
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Spotify responded to criticism it has received regarding Covid-19 content Sunday after a number of prominent artists said they will leave the platform if it continues to host comedian Joe Rogan, whose podcast has spread misleading and inaccurate claims about vaccines and the virus. But will that be enough to placate critics?
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Boomcaster, a new startup based in Chapel Hill, launched its new technology to enhance the podcasting experience better for producers and guests.
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Ikea’s 2021 catalog, which is its final edition ever, is now a nearly four-hour podcast with a narrator flicking through each page and describing what’s in it.
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The big idea is only the first step of thousands that you need to take to run a successful business—let alone create a market-altering company.
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Remember that kid in school who thought they had superior, unimpeachable taste in music, and yours was supremely uncool? Somebody trained an AI to be that person.
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