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How Spotify is leveraging technology to benefit its most popular playlist: Punjabi 101
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How Spotify is leveraging technology to benefit its most popular playlist: Punjabi 101

NewsCitiesChandigarhHow Spotify is leveraging technology to benefit its most popular playlist: Punjabi 101 To streamline things for the artists, and help them leverage technology, Spotify has a separate purple colored artist app where the artists can check the data, logistics, consumption, popularity, playlist, many features custom made to benefit the artist. AP Dhillon (left), late Sidhu Moosewala (center) and Gurinder Gill (right) (Photo: File/Instagram)Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. ONE of the most interesting takeaways from a conversation with Rahul Balyan, Head of Music, Spotify India was the fact that it’s Chandigarh and Ludhiana that are the epicentres of chartbusters. “That’s actually ri...
‘Digital Narration Technology’ To Deliver Audio For Millions Of Books
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‘Digital Narration Technology’ To Deliver Audio For Millions Of Books

An image of books and apples generated by Stable Diffusion via DreamStudio Lite by John Koetsier in ... [+] reaction to the seed phrase "photo of books and apples in a green field of grass under a starry sky hyperrealistic"John Koetsier Apple quietly launched digital narration technology today that uses artificial intelligence to generate human-sounding narration for books. While it sounds like a dangerously bad idea at first — how will AI know what to emphasize, where to get excited, and where to slow down — the small samples Apple has shared sound surprisingly human. The initial target: long-tail books that will never be worth paying a human narrator for. “More and more book lovers are listening to audiobooks, yet only a fraction of books are converted to audio — leaving millions o...