Now Hear This: The Rise of the Spoken Article

With AI voice tech, The Washington Post, CNN, and The New York Times are pressing play on audio articles. But can they turn voice into a product?

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We're wrapping up yet another Tech Week here in NYC (it's like Amazon Prime Day — it happens whenever it wants to happen), and AI is of course in the air. I attended an excellent discussion about the use of synthetic voice in news media, exploring both the practical and the ethical sides of the trend, which I talk about extensively below.

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