Spotify launches a DM feature that lets users share audio and send text chats, available to mobile users aged 16 years and older in “select markets” this week
Both Free and Premium accounts can share audio content and send messages to each other.
Indonesia-based Noice, an audio content startup focused on podcasts, radio, audiobooks, and live audio, raises a $22M Series A led by Northstar
Catherine Shu / TechCrunch :
Denmark-based podcasting and audio tech startup Podimo raises a $78M Series B led by 83North and Highland Europe
Companies in this sector have traditionally had difficulties in monetising audio content. Sweden's Acast introduced advertising as a way to pay the podcast's creators for their content.
Facebook says it will start testing Live Audio Rooms in Groups and expects to roll out the feature to everyone on the Facebook app by the summer
Clubhouse, Fleets, whatever Facebook just announced, etc. etc. But not everything works best as audio, IMO. Some things are better consumed and stored as text. But then, I am an old Sara Fischer / @sa...
Google Chrome adds Live Caption as an accessibility feature in Chrome 89, to transcribe speech in videos
and you can try it right now Sarah Katz / Tech Xplore : Google Chrome's new Live Caption feature will transcribe speech in videos Sean Riley / Laptop Mag : Chrome just introduced a powerful new access...
Zoom's marketing and product make the claim that it uses “end-to-end encryption”, but video and audio content from meetings is not end-to-end encrypted
Zoom, the video conferencing service whose use has spiked amid the Covid-19 pandemic, claims to implement end-to-end encryption …
The New York Times Company acquires Audm, a subscription-based audio app offering listeners longform articles read by actors and celebrities for $8.99 per month
Audm, a startup that turns longform journalism into audio content, has been acquired by The New York Times Company, it announced this morning.
China's new rules, effective Jan. 1, require videos created using AI or VR tech to be clearly marked, make distribution of deepfakes a possible criminal offense
BEIJING/SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Chinese regulators have announced new rules governing video and audio content online …
China's new rules, effective Jan. 1, require videos created using AI or VR tech to be clearly marked, make distribution of deepfakes a possible criminal offense
BEIJING/SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Chinese regulators have announced new rules governing video and audio content online …
After Luminary admits using links that hide some podcast listener data, popular creators like Ben Thompson, Owen Williams, Federico Viticci pull their podcasts
great way to make a good impression in the podcasting community! http://twitter.com/... Luminary / @hearluminary : @marcoarment This ensures that all requests go directly to the original media file's ...