Information reaching Kossyderrickent has it that Spotify introduces ‘Jam,’ a real-time, personalized listening session that allows users and their friends to share the queue and choose what’s playing together.
How Jam works
Jam is rolling out for all Spotify users globally starting today—so make sure your app is up-to-date. Premium listeners everywhere can start a Jam and anyone on Spotify can join. Simply invite your squad and Jam will help you find the perfect songs to add to the queue, finding the overlaps in your listening preferences to deliver music recommendations that everyone will love. You’ll have the ability to see who’s added which track so you know whom to thank for that crowd pleaser, whether you’re prepping food together in the kitchen or enjoying games in the backyard.
Once you start a Jam, you can invite a group of friends or family—Free or Premium users, or a mix—so they can share the experience. Premium listeners can join from wherever they are, whether they’re in the same room or across the world.
There are few things more powerful than connecting over a shared love of music. So over the past few years, Spotify has unveiled a wide range of new features, including Collaborative Playlists and Blend, that make sharing the music you love easier than ever. And fans love them: they’ve already created more than 45 million Blends. And in the past month alone, they’ve cumulatively spent over 200 million hours listening to the Collaborative Playlists they’ve created alongside those closest to them.
Today we’re introducing Jam, a personalized, real-time listening session for your group to tune into together. Jam builds on some of our popular social features and combines them with our personalization technology to take real-time listening with pals to the next level. With Jam, Premium subscribers will be able to invite others to contribute through a shared queue and enjoy a musical experience made exclusively for everyone listening. This was one of two product announcements made by Spotify overnight, although the second is focused on podcasts rather than music.
It’s called ‘Voice Translation for Podcasts’ and is a pilot for the moment. It uses new tech from OpenAI to generate “AI-powered voice translations” of podcast episodes using a cloned version of the podcast host’s voice.
Spotify is testing the tech with a select group of podcasters for now – Dax Shepard, Monica Padman, Lex Fridman, Bill Simmons, and Steven Bartlett – with languages including Spanish, French and German.
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