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  • Amazon

    Amazon Alexa has unveiled “a professional newscaster voice”, which they plan to use for news briefings and other similar pieces of work. The post includes excerpts of the voice, which contains all the right cadences for news broadcasts.

  • The Pod is an interesting new product - a pop-up soundbooth to give recordings better acoustics.

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  • Google
    Google Podcasts

    Last week, we noted that Google Podcasts is beginning to appear in Android Auto, the car navigation and entertainment system from Google. As this update rolls out, it seems that Google Podcasts is visible to every Android Auto user (irrespective of whether they’ve installed the “app”). Google Play says that Android Auto has over 10,000,000 installations, ten times that of the Google Podcasts app.


    Aug 9 2023: This broken link now points to the Internet Archive.
  • Apple
    Apple Podcasts
    Pandora

    Paul Colligan posts his Podcast Predictions for 2019 in the latest episode of The Podcast Report. He views Pandora as having an “exponentially bigger” impact than Google; he forsees major changes at Apple Podcasts since Apple’s turning into a service company; and thinks Instagram is the future for promoting podcasts. He says that Pandora is his #2 platform currently.

  • Spreaker
    Voxnest

    Voxnest has launched Spreaker Enterprise, described as “enterprise-level podcast hosting”.

  • Vice, a youth publisher, plans to launch three new podcast series in Australia. The company’s Viceland TV network is a joint project with broadcaster SBS.

  • The Boston Globe covers the history and the present day of podcasting, calling it “a juggernaut”.

  • ART19

    Tribune Media, a US television and media company, is launching the Tribune Audio Network. They’re working with ART19, promising “podcasts produced by Tribune Media’s local and national brands, while also serving as a talent and subject matter incubator”.

  • NPR

    NPR has made Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me into an interactive quiz for smart speakers. It will be updated weekly. Unlike the podcast, the skill appears restricted to the US.

  • Alitu

    Alitu, a product that “polishes, brands & publishes your podcast, automatically”, has just released recording within the app. “You can upload your normal recording (from Skype/recorder/computer/etc) and then record a quick intro and outro right there inside Alitu to bookend it, if needed”, Alitu’s CEO, Colin Gray, tells us.

Podcasts

    Battle Stations is a seven-part podcast set in a radio station. SAG fm plays soft adult grooves and it also plays host to endless behind the scenes disasters. Can radio announcer and argument enthusiast Ray Easton get his station to number one in a workplace where the only thing more toxic than the staff’s attitude is the coffee? (Nova Entertainment / Acast)
    Heavily Pixelated
    Video games saved Scott C Jones’s life. He’s launched Heavily Pixelated, where he talks to gamers about their most vulnerable moments—whether it’s divorce, illness, or heartbreak—and discovers the games that fortified them when they needed it most.

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