Spotify’s podcast and audiobook discovery will get a boost from Google Cloud’s AI

/ The company says its experimenting with Google’s AI tools to improve content discovery and personalized recommendations for spoken audio.

By Amrita Khalid, one of the authors of audio industry newsletter Hot Pod. Khalid has covered tech, surveillance policy, consumer gadgets, and online communities for more than a decade.

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It’s a cliché at this point to say that podcasts (and, to a less publicized extent, audiobooks) have a discovery problem. To help fix that, Spotify announced it’s using Google Cloud’s AI tools to improve both content discovery and personalized recommendations for its audio offerings.

With this latest move, Spotify is

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