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• New podcast The Daily Book Club is from Otis Grey: it’s a each day present from the creator of Sleepy, with a chapter of a traditional story daily. The each day content material of the podcast is made along with his personal cloned voice, utilizing ElevenLabs: the usage of AI isn’t talked about within the audio, and is coyly described as a “voice recreation” within the present description. We requested Otis: he advised Podnews that after operating exams with listeners, “I advised them it was AI, and requested if they’d an issue with that. To my nice shock, none of them did. They didn’t really feel duped. They only needed extra content material, they usually knew it was coming from me.“ He added, “if listeners assume it’s Otis they’re listening to, then that’s simply superb.”

• The Boston Globe employed three individuals to launch a weekly podcast earlier this yr: but then, changed its mind and doesn’t plan to launch the show. It’s reported that two individuals are being paid whereas they search for different jobs on the firm; and the producer of the present has been redeployed as the author of a publication. (Ideas and prayers.)

• Free cash! All Hear is a free email newsletter which contains available grants, calls for podcast pitches, residencies and awards, and has virtually 4,500 subscribers. Taking a look at August’s edition, there have been 115 totally different alternatives all around the world. Subscribe over here.

• Listen Notes suggests that July saw the lowest number of “new podcasts” this year – more than 60% lower year-on-year. Technically, the quantity refers to “new feeds”; many new podcasts have been launched on defunct feeds for reveals which have ceased. There’s a decline in manufacturing of recent podcast episodes: that’s solely down 6% year-on-year in accordance with the Podcast Index (see the tech stuff final month).

  
  

• Headliner has announced a collaboration with Canva, for extra subtle design capabilities for audiograms.

• Pocket Casts will add the flexibility to price podcasts to the following model of its iOS app, v7.70. Listeners must pay attention to 2 episodes or extra to vote.

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