Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Welcome to the podcast. I'm your host, Jaden Schaefer.
Chapter 2: What are the latest AI audio updates from Spotify?
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 don't have to listen to the entire thing.
Chapter 3: How do Spotify's AI-powered prompted playlists work?
Personally, as an avid podcast listener, this is something I'm excited about. And finally, Eleven 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. So you don't have to have subscriptions to all of them.
Chapter 4: What are the pros and cons of AI-generated playlists?
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.
Chapter 5: How is Particle changing podcast consumption?
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.ai.
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. It's not for everyone. And it's specifically in the UK, Ireland, Australia and Sweden.
Chapter 6: What features does Eleven Labs offer in AI audio publishing?
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 for 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.
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. Now, if I'm being honest, I think that this is probably where the future goes in a way.
And that's because oftentimes, you know, as myself, as someone that is a playlist creator, they're called playlist curators. I sometimes get really busy and I don't update my playlist for a month. And maybe there's a bunch of great songs that would have been perfect that the Spotify algorithm could have found that I didn't find. And so I think that that's an interesting concept.
Now, will these playlists automatically be updated that you prompt? Probably not. So you also have to automatically prompt them. So the pros and cons here are that the user, while they will get a fresh playlist when they prompt it and create something cool that maybe a playlist curator, if they weren't on top of it, wouldn't have added.
You also would have to continuously kind of reprompt or regenerate that playlist to keep it fresh if you wanted new stuff in there. So possibly that's actually just making more work for the user. So pros and cons there. Besides that, I think there's a bunch of cool things you can do in the prompting itself.
You can add things like the vibe, different scenarios, aesthetics, memory, area, era, genre. You can say something like songs that feel like the final score of a specific movie. And you can also ask for mostly new music or you can ask for mostly music from your library. So there's a whole bunch of really cool things there. I'll give you one example that I saw in a Spotify demo.
They said, find one artist I haven't listened to yet, but would probably love and an artist I've only heard one or two songs from and introduce me to them. Build a playlist of songs that will give me an overview of their catalog. So it feels like I'm getting to know them. Put the songs you think I like most in the top spots.
So you type in something pretty long, elaborate and specific like this, and it generates it for you. Now, I think this is awesome for getting custom music exactly how you want. The only downside is it's super cool to get this, like you get to customize your algorithm basically, and I actually think it's the correct direction.
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Chapter 7: How does AI audio impact media consumption and monetization?
So if you get particle plus, it's $2.99 a month or about $30 a year. And then you get all of those kind of summary controls. You get multiple voices for an audio feed. You can listen to the news. There's a bunch of other cool premium features, but they do have some, you know, some elements of that that are paid.
Next up, let's talk about what's going on over at Eleven Labs, one of my favorite AI audio companies, although they are so expensive that it kills me sometimes. But I have spent thousands of dollars. I might be getting close to $10,000 of Eleven Labs credits I've spent over my life.
So obviously I love this company, but I have a love-hate relationship because it doesn't feel good to have spent $10,000 on a company in AI. But the places that 11 Labs, I think, are really crushing it lately and also, like full disclosure, this is somewhere I spend a lot of money on as well, is in things like audio dubbing.
So recently I've had AI Chat, AI Hustle, AI Applied, three of my top podcasts, all translated with dubbing via 11 Labs into a whole bunch of different languages. So people could listen to this podcast in French, Spanish, German, English.
mandarin like a whole bunch of different languages but it's still my voice talking so i think that that's a really cool feature that us that um 11 labs enables and they have to do a bunch of creative things especially if there's two different voices you have to you know first take the voices and clone the voices then you have to determine um you know which voice is which so you have to you have to identify who the two speakers are
and kind of do those two voice clones separate you gotta do the translation of course which isn't too crazy but then something that 11 lives does that i'm impressed by is in order to get the lip sync working meaning if you're going to use like an audio that gets translated for a movie right let's say the movie clip is 30 seconds long you don't want the audio file to come out after gets translated into spanish as like 45 seconds and now because every word and every translation and phrase is
could be shorter or longer. It is pretty tricky to do this, but there are a bunch of like stretching tools and techniques that you can use. And so this is kind of what 11 Labs does. So essentially, if you you can use these audio files as dubs for videos, and you see kind of the same technology with like, hey, Jen, and people like that, but I've been really impressed with how 11 Labs has done it.
And specifically, you know, I use this for podcasting and a lot of other publishers and news organizations are also doing this. And this is a really big moneymaker for 11 Labs. So I think the upside to this is obvious. You get a lot more engagement and retention if you're translating this into other languages.
It's a lot more accessible for people that might, you know, not speak English super well or whatever the primary language is super well. And then like monetization, you can obviously make more money by growing the user base or the listener base and specifically in different countries because a Spanish company is not going to advertise on my podcast.
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