CANNES, FRANCE – JUNE 20: Spotify’s CEO and Co-Founder Daniel Ek (L) joins writer and comedian Trevor Noah to discuss the long run of storytelling at Spotify Beach on June 20, 2023 in Cannes, France. (Photo by David M. Benett/Dave Benett/Getty Images for Spotify)
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Spotify on Monday announced a recent artificial intelligence-powered feature that may translate podcasts into different languages using the host’s own voice.
The corporate said the feature relies on OpenAI’s voice generation technology, which was also announced Monday. The technology can create “realistic synthetic voices” from just a couple of seconds of speech, OpenAI said in a release. Spotify said it will help make the podcast listening experience more authentic and natural by maintaining podcasters’ “distinctive speech characteristics.”
Shares of Spotify were down around 2% Monday morning. Spotify didn’t immediately respond to CNBC’s request for comment.
The corporate worked with podcasters like Dax Shepard, Lex Fridman, Monica Padman, Steven Bartlett and Bill Simmons on a select variety of past and upcoming episodes. Spotify said the episodes were initially translated into Spanish, French and German, and they will be available to each free users and paid subscribers in the approaching days and weeks, according to the discharge.
Spotify said it plans to make the feature accessible for more creators and languages in the long run. The corporate is already working on the comedian Trevor Noah’s upcoming recent podcast, as an illustration.
“That is just the start,” Spotify said in the discharge.