A partnership with OpenAI will let podcasters replicate their voices to automatically create foreign-language versions of their shows.

  • wishthane@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    You could argue that for major languages, where the translations would drive revenue, they should prefer to hire people to do the translations from within the target market - it would create some amount of economic opportunity rather than just being another way for the developed countries to suck up money on services from developing ones in particular.

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      1 year ago

      But that would be just translating the transcript. To make it comparable to what Spotify is planning is if it also contains hiring voice actors to essentially redo the entire podcast in a different language.

      No offense but depending on the podcast and the target audience this solution could cost per episode more than the entire production cost of the podcast per episode.

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        1 year ago

        Yeah, I could imagine that, if we’re just counting the baseline minimum of what that production would cost. I think for the most popular podcasts they could easily afford it, though. It would certainly cost much less than what they’re paying Joe Rogan.