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Its first rollout includes complete 650 long-form narrated articles.
Spotify
Spotify is expanding its offerings pinch a beautiful wide action of narrated long-form mag articles from respective publications that are astir apt already acquainted to you. The audio streaming work has announced that it's adding complete 650 long-form articles to its audiobook library. While each nan pieces it added are successful nan English connection only, they will beryllium disposable successful each of Spotify's regions wherever audiobooks are available.
The articles included successful this rollout see pieces from Rolling Stone, The Atlantic, Vogue, Variety, Billboard, Vibe, GQ, WIRED, Vanity Fair and Pitchfork. Spotify has teamed up pinch much publications, but arsenic you tin see, nan curated postulation offers articles connected topics subscribers are astir apt willing in, namely euphony and technology. "With Articles, we're introducing long-form publicity successful audio arsenic a earthy hold of nan music, podcasts, and audiobooks group already travel to Spotify for, focused connected topics we cognize they love," said Colleen Prendergast, Licensing Lead astatine Spotify Audiobooks. Prendergast besides said that by offering subscribers shorter formats to perceive to, nan dream is for them to interact much pinch books, peculiarly nan audiobooks successful Spotify's library, complete time.
Each narrated article Spotify has released is nether 2 hours long, and subscribers tin perceive to them against their audiobooks listening time. A Spotify Premium subscription includes 15 hours of audiobook listening clip a month. Voracious readers tin acquisition top-ups, however, specified arsenic the Audiobooks+ monthly add-on pinch higher listening clip limits. They tin besides conscionable acquisition individual articles to perceive to for $2 each.
The institution said successful its announcement that nan narrated articles it released were produced in-house by nan Spotify Audiobooks team. We've asked Spotify for explanation whether that intends nan narrations were done by quality talents aliases generated utilizing AI, and we'll update this station erstwhile we perceive back.
Spotify announced several generative AI-focused updates during nan company's investor time past week. One of nan features it's launching adjacent period successful nan US will let users to generate individual podcasts straight wrong Spotify by drafting from nan user's floor plan and immoderate record they upload, including PDFs and URLs. It's besides launching "Prompted Playlists" for audiobooks, which tin create playlists based connected user's prompts describing what they want to perceive much of and their listening history.
