{"id":172836,"date":"2023-09-26T11:22:49","date_gmt":"2023-09-26T16:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/spotify-is-going-to-clone-podcasters-voices-and-translate-them-to-other-languages"},"modified":"2023-09-26T11:22:49","modified_gmt":"2023-09-26T16:22:49","slug":"spotify-is-going-to-clone-podcasters-voices-and-translate-them-to-other-languages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/spotify-is-going-to-clone-podcasters-voices-and-translate-them-to-other-languages","title":{"rendered":"Spotify is going to clone podcasters\u2019 voices \u2014 and translate them to other languages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spotify-is-going-to-clone-podcasters-voices-and-translate-them-to-other-languages2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The backbone of the translation feature is OpenAI\u2019s voice transcription tool Whisper, which can both transcribe English speech and translate other languages into English. But Spotify\u2019s tool goes beyond speech-to-text translation \u2014 the feature will translate a podcast into a different language and reproduce it in a synthesized version of the podcasters\u2019 own voice.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy matching the creator\u2019s own voice, Voice Translation gives listeners around the world the power to discover and be inspired by new podcasters in a more authentic way than ever before,\u201d Ziad Sultan, Spotify\u2019s vice president of personalization, said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>OpenAI is likely behind the voice replication part of this new feature, too. The AI company is making a few announcements this morning, including the launch of a tool that can create \u201chuman-like audio from just text and a few seconds of sample speech.\u201d OpenAI says it\u2019s intentionally limiting how widely this tool will be available due to concerns around safety and privacy.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A partnership with OpenAI will let podcasters replicate their voices to automatically create foreign-language versions of their shows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The backbone of the translation feature is OpenAI\u2019s voice transcription tool Whisper, which can both transcribe English speech and translate other languages into English. But Spotify\u2019s tool goes beyond speech-to-text translation \u2014 the feature will translate a podcast into a different language and reproduce it in a synthesized version of the podcasters\u2019 own voice. \u201cBy [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":542,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/542"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172836\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}