Generative AI in music, podcasting, streaming services, audiobooks, and all audio production
Whether or not because of recent staff layoffs, Spotify is leaning less on human-powered playlist creation, and more on AI. The latest innovation is “AI Playlist,” a playlist creative algorithm which takes descriptive prompts from the listener to build unique and personalized playlists. UK and Australia only for now. Continue Reading
A new company called Audire (a combination of “audio” and “dire” — to speak, in French) has launched in Europe, Latin America, and the U.S. It is a new venture for RAIN sponsor and RAIN Summit speaker Carlos Cordoba. The network spans 150-million users across its addressable regions, including 50-million in the U.S. Click for detail. Continue Reading
Radio innovation company Super Hi-Fi is promoting the launch of new technology which uses AI to create radio station programming, and has launched its first examples in HD. It is called HLS+. Partners in this technological adventure are Xperi and Cumulus Media. Two new radio stations in Nashville are powered by a combination of human-produced programming elements and AI-produced targeting and assembly. Click for more explanation of this interesting venture. Continue Reading
Apple has declared that its next version of iOS, the iPhone operating system, will be equipped with automatically generated podcast transcripts. That feature will be helpful for users who sometimes prefer reading, or reading along with the audio. But does Apple have the right to do so? Who owns the transcript of an audio production which has been distributed by the audio owner? Continue Reading
A unique type of content ownership certification is in the works from a non-profit group called Fairly Trained. As the name implies, the focus is on media content — including music — used to train artificial intelligence services. Continue Reading
In a public memo to its Artificial Intelligence customers, Google Cloud promises to take responsibility for legal challenges arising from using Duet AI, one of the company’s AI engines. The memo was posted by two Google Cloud executives. Read for a deeper explanation. Continue Reading
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has identified voice-cloning services as threats to musicians’ intellectual property, and reported Voicify particularly to the U.S. government. Voicify.ai was the only service called out by name, though it certainly is not the only service in the game. The RIAA makes two specific complaints. Continue Reading
AI and machine learning company Sonant, and audio demographic analytics firm Podder, have partnered to create better audience insights for audio advertisers In a joint announcement, the two companies describe three main benefits. Continue Reading
AdLarge announces a new partnership with AI-powered brand suitability and contextual targeting company Barometer. The mission is to provide brand suitability and safety guidelines across the AdLarge Podcast portfolio. Barometer has built an AI engine to analyze podcast content and… Continue Reading
Acast subsidiary and podcast discovery resource Podchaser has launched an AI-driven feature designed to enhance podcast audience targeting based on episode language. The distinguishing feature is the use of AI, as opposed to first-party demographic data, to analyze the language spoken within a podcast to predict the age and gender of its likely audience. Click for details. Continue Reading
Spotify is piloting an AI tool which translates any podcast into alternate languages, called Voice Translation for Podcasts. The translation is one part. Perhaps more startling is the AI technology which also synthesizes a voice sounding identical to the original. Click for more. Continue Reading
Confused by the title? Click through. The Recording Academy, which runs the Grammy Awards, has drawn a line defining how AI can be used in acceptable song nominations. Continue Reading