Welcome to the podcast. I'm your host, Jaden Schaefer. Today on the show, I want to talk about some updates in AI audio.

We have a couple new features from a bunch of big companies rolling out from Spotify. They're rolling out new AI powered prompted playlists where you essentially create a prompt and it builds a Spotify playlist for you.

There's some interesting pros and cons to this. Particle is a AI news app

that now is able to listen to podcasts for you. So like, you know, instead of just having to

give you summaries on news from top news organizations based off of articles, it can actually

go listen to podcasts for you, pull out interesting clips from those podcasts, you know,

have to listen to the entire thing. Personally, as an avid podcast listener, this is something that I'm excited about.

And finally, 11 Labs has written an entire report on the state of AI audio in publishing and news.

So let's get into all of the AI audio news.

But before we do, I have a major announcement that I'm super excited to make, and that is that my own platform, AIbox.AI, that lets you access over 50 different of the top AI models all in one place. You don't have to have subscriptions to all of them. We've just completed an entire redesign of the whole platform from the ground up and an entire overhaul. So if you've tried it in the past, I'd love for you to check it out. Today, you get access in a playground to all of the top AI models. And we have a vibe tool builder where you can describe any workflow or tool you'd like to create. And we link together all of the different AI models, input prompts for you and build tools to help automate a lot of the stuff you do. We've simplified it a ton. I personally have spent weeks and hours painstakingly doing all of the UI to make this thing look amazing. That's just kind of what I obsess about. And so if you enjoy it, let me know. And if you want any more features or things added to it, let me know. But we just put a massive upgrade. So if you want to check it out, it is AIbox.a.i. And we also rolled out new pricing tiers so you can actually get it.

It was 20 bucks only in the past. If you want to test it out and do some smaller scale stuff, we have an 899 tier. And we also have annual plans. So you get 20% discount if you get an annual plan as well. So go check it out, AIbox.ai. All right, let's talk about the state of AI and audio. I want to kick this off talking about

Spotify's new feature. They have these AI powered, they call them prompted playlists, and they're

rolling out to premium subscribers. So it's not for everyone. And it's specifically in the UK,

Ireland, Australia, and Sweden. They did some earlier tests in New Zealand. And they've launched

this in the US and Canada. So they're rolling this out more broadly. If you're in the US and Canada, you should have access to this already. It's pretty straightforward. Basically, instead of going and just searching for different playlists, which is what I will typically do, it will use AI to create them from scratch. Now, there's a bunch of pros and cons for this, and I mean, I'll automatically admit my bias in this. I've actually spent a decent amount of money

invested into creating playlists and promoting them to get users to follow these playlists. And then

if you have music that you put into that playlist, it automatically gets listened to. So this is a good

way to get music listened to.

And, you know, obviously you got to make good stuff that follows inside of your genre that

your followers will like.

But doing these AI playlists essentially kind of kills off that entire industry or that

entire way of making content.

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