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- Dec 23:
Podcasting 2.0 - what’s it all about? PodEngine produced a report with everything said about Podcasting 2.0 over the last few months in podcasts. On podcastindex
.social, Kevin Bae fed that report into Google NotebookLM, to make a podcast about it - which you’ll now find in the Podnews Extra podcast. It’s not all entirely right, but pretty close... - Dec 19: Google has launched a new tool made to “transform your content into AI-generated audio discussions”. And, in much the same way as the company has five different messaging apps, this one is called Google Illuminate AI, which seems to be much the same as another product from the company, Google NotebookLM. Some people suggest it’s a little better; we’ve noticed the voices sound a little different. Meanwhile, in Google NotebookLM, you can now talk to the AI podcast hosts, which you can’t do with the AI podcast hosts in Illuminate AI. There’s a strategy here, if only we could see it.
- Dec 10: Apple Podcasts can now be installed as an Android app, after the company made some unannounced changes to its website. While the app isn’t available in the Google Play store, it can now be installed to work identically to an app on Android phones - appearing in your app drawer, with the opportunity to buy premium subscriptions, and full localisation in different languages. Here’s how to install it.
- Dec 5: There’s a fair amount of AI, too. Spotify launched a “Wrapped AI podcast”, working with Google NotebookLM. You’ll find it in the app in some countries - it’s those two folks from NotebookLM, looking through your music list. You can share it with others. You can also enjoy your very own AI DJ, playing some of your biggest tunes.
- Nov 22: According to its changelog, Descript has made “overdub” become part of “regenerate”, its AI speech generation tool. You can now pay with Apple Pay and Google Pay. The text-to-speech tool now works snappier and better. You can now replace media on the fly.
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