Tag: Podcast

Spotify to use Google’s AI to tailor podcasts, audiobooks recommendations
16Nov By adminNo Comments
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Spotify to use Google’s AI to tailor podcasts, audiobooks recommendations

[ad_1] Spotify, on Thursday, expanded its partnership with Google Cloud to use large language models (LLMs) to help identify a user's listening patterns across podcasts and audiobooks in order to suggest tailor-made recommendations.Artificial intelligence-powered LLMs such as OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google Bard, are trained on a massive amount of data to generate text and other content. Google Cloud, owned by Alphabet, has several LLMs such as PaLM 2, Codey, Imagen and Chirp that are trained on text, codes, images, audio and video. Spotify has been an early adopter of AI, which it used for music recommendation algorithms a decade earlier. The Swedish company is now aiming to use LLMs to replicate that across its non-music content such as podcasts and audiobooks.The music streaming giant ha...
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Zomato CEO Deepinder Goyal makes big disclosure on discounts – they only “appear” to be big
3Nov By adminNo Comments
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Zomato CEO Deepinder Goyal makes big disclosure on discounts – they only “appear” to be big

[ad_1] Those of you who order your food regularly through food delivery services like Zomato would be familiar with the big discounts on the platform. On general days, Zomato gives anywhere between 20 to 50 percent discount, which goes as high as 60 percent during festivals and on special occasions. Many even pick their preferred restaurant based on these discounts. However, in a huge revelation, Zomato CEO Deepinder Goyal has said that these discounts only "appear" to be big, instead of really being so.Goyal appeared on YouTuber Ranveer Allahbadia's podcast recently. The conversations went over topics such as the workings of the company, the work culture at Zomato, the hiring process for employees, competition with Swiggy, and more. During the conversation, the CEO also touched upon th...
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Spotify tests voice translation feature for podcasts
26Sep By adminNo Comments
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Spotify tests voice translation feature for podcasts

[ad_1] Spotify Technology is testing an AI-powered feature that will translate podcasts from the likes of Dax Shepard and Lex Fridman to other languages, the audio-streaming company said. The feature marks the latest attempt by the Swedish company to capitalize on generative artificial intelligence, the technology that has taken the world by storm after the rise of ChatGPT, to tap new users and boost revenue.The translated versions, powered by Microsoft-backed OpenAI's newly released voice generation technology, would mimic the original speaker's style and will be more natural than traditional dubbing, Spotify said. The company had also worked with other podcasters including Monica Padman, Bill Simmons and Steven Bartlett for the feature. The voice translations would be available in lan...
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After Apple, now Spotify rolls out more creator tools to empower podcasters
24Aug By adminNo Comments
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After Apple, now Spotify rolls out more creator tools to empower podcasters

[ad_1] Podcasts are an increasingly popular audio platform in India and the country ranks third globally with over 150 million podcast listeners. While the podcast journey in India started in 2005 with Abhishek Kumar and Aditya Mhatre's Indicast, the format has become extremely popular since the emergence of streaming platforms such as Spotify, Apple Podcast, Amazon Music, and more. To encourage and empower podcasters, Apple just a few days ago, rolled out several creator tools such as Linkfire integration and subscriber analytics. Now, Spotify has followed suit and introduced a suite of podcaster tools on Wednesday at the Podcast Movement conference in Denver. Spotify: New tools for podcastersThe new creator tools for podcasters were announced by Austin Lamon, Spotify's Podcast Produc...
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Race towards ‘autonomous’ AI agents grips Silicon Valley
18Jul By adminNo Comments
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Race towards ‘autonomous’ AI agents grips Silicon Valley

[ad_1] Around a decade after virtual assistants like Siri and Alexa burst onto the scene, a new wave of AI helpers with greater autonomy is raising the stakes, powered by the latest version of the technology behind ChatGPT and its rivals.Experimental systems that run on GPT-4 or similar models are attracting billions of dollars of investment as Silicon Valley competes to capitalize on the advances in AI. The new assistants - often called "agents" or "copilots" - promise to perform more complex personal and work tasks when commanded to by a human, without needing close supervision. "High level, we want this to become something like your personal AI friend," said developer Div Garg, whose company MultiOn is beta-testing an AI agent. "It could evolve into Jarvis, where we want this to be c...
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Meta’s ‘friendly’ Threads collides with unfriendly internet
11Jul By adminNo Comments
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Meta’s ‘friendly’ Threads collides with unfriendly internet

[ad_1] Mark Zuckerberg has pitched Meta's Twitter copycat app, Threads, as a "friendly" refuge for public discourse online, framing it in sharp distinction to the more adversarial Twitter which is owned by billionaire Elon Musk."We are definitely focusing on kindness and making this a friendly place," Meta CEO Zuckerberg said on Wednesday, shortly after the service's launch. Maintaining that idealistic vision for Threads - which attracted more than 70 million users in its first two days - is another story. To be sure, Meta Platforms is no newbie at managing the rage-baiting, smut-posting internet hordes. The company said it would hold users of the new Threads app to the same rules it maintains on its photo and video sharing social media service, Instagram.The Facebook and Instagram owne...
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