Spotify has announced a new AI-powered feature that can translate podcasts into different languages using the host’s own voice, as part of a partnership with OpenAI, as Spotify becomes the latest to use generative AI for its products.
The company said the feature relies on OpenAI’s voice generation technology, which announced Monday that it was releasing new “voice and image capabilities” for ChatGPT, allowing users to speak with the AI chatbot with generated “human-like audio from just text and a few seconds of sample speech.”
The technology can create “realistic synthetic voices” from just a few 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.”
The company worked with podcasters such as Dax Shepard, Lex Fridman, Monica Padman, Steven Bartlett, and Bill Simmons on a select number of past and upcoming episodes. Spotify said the episodes were initially translated into Spanish, French, and German, and they will be available to both free users and paid subscribers in the coming days and weeks, according to the release.
Spotify said it plans to make the feature accessible for more creators and languages in the future. The company is already working on comedian Trevor Noah’s upcoming new podcast, for instance.
“This is just the beginning,” Spotify said in the release.
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