{"id":490953,"date":"2026-05-18T17:38:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T17:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/490953\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T17:38:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T17:38:14","slug":"amazon-alexa-plus-now-produces-ai-generated-podcast-episodes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/490953\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Alexa Plus Now Produces AI-Generated Podcast Episodes"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThe podcast sector suddenly may have a big new player: Amazon<\/a>\u2018s Alexa<\/a>+ AI-powered voice assistant.<\/p>\n

\n\tAlexa has been answering billions of users\u2019 queries since it was first released in 2014. Now Amazon is positioning Alexa+\u2019s extended answers on any number of different topics as \u201cpodcasts,\u201d completely compiled using AI, the company announced Monday.<\/p>\n

\n\tSeemingly to dispel the notion that these \u201cpodcasts\u201d will be AI audio slop, Amazon emphasized that it has deals with major news organizations to ensure \u201caccurate, real-time news and information.\u201d Those include the Associated Press, Reuters, the Washington Post, Time magazine, Forbes, Business Insider, Politico and USA Today; publications from Cond\u00e9 Nast, Hearst and Vox Media; and more than 200 local newspapers across the U.S.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn an example clip<\/a> shared by Amazon of the new Alexa Podcasts<\/a> feature, the two AI-generated hosts discuss \u201cthe latest music releases.\u201d A male Alexa+ narrator says more than 50% of music listening now comes from unsigned artists. \u201cThe monoculture is just gone,\u201d a female-voiced Alexa+ narrator chimes in. The male Alexa+ host says there has been \u201cstoner metal,\u201d indie pop and experimental hip-hop music \u201call dropping on the same Friday,\u201d and adds, \u201cThat\u2019s not chaos \u2014 that\u2019s the healthiest the music ecosystem has ever been.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAlexa+ is bundled at no additional cost for Prime members in the U.S.; it\u2019s available to non-Prime members for $19.99\/month.<\/p>\n

\n\tIt\u2019s not the first AI-generated podcast system out there: Google\u2019s NotebookLM AI tool last year added the ability to autogenerate a podcast of sorts based on a collection of notes and information using a synthetic voice. That prompted a lawsuit from former NPR \u201cMorning Edition\u201d host David Greene<\/a>, who alleged that Google copied his voice without permission.<\/p>\n

\n\tTo use Alexa Podcasts, users can simply tell Alexa what topic they\u2019re curious about and \u201cit does the rest in minutes.\u201d Alexa+ will provide an overview of what it plans to cover, and let you adjust the length and direction before it generates the podcast. When your episode is ready, you\u2019ll get a notification on your Echo Show device and the Alexa app.<\/p>\n

\n\tAlexa Podcasts is available to Alexa+ customers in the U.S. Amazon said it is also \u201cthinking about how you\u2019ll be able to create different types of custom audio on demand, from personalized news briefings to content based on the information and documents you want to share. This is just the beginning of a whole new way to learn, stay informed, and consume content that fits into your life.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The podcast sector suddenly may have a big new player: Amazon\u2018s Alexa+ AI-powered voice assistant. Alexa has been…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":490954,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[261],"tags":[291,44316,214204,1463,289,290,18,19,17,82],"class_list":["post-490953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-alexa","tag-alexa-podcasts","tag-amazon","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-eire","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-technology"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116596801925653160","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/490954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}