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TECH T@LK

Spotify introduces Google celebrates

auto-generated podcast 25th birthday with a

transcripts special doodle

ove listening to podcasts on the earch engine giant Google
audio streaming platform Spo- Beyond transcripts, mobile turned 25 on Wednesday. Mark-
Ltify? If yes, then there’s good podcast listeners global- Sing the special occasion, the
news for you. Spotify has announced company unveiled a special doodle
the rollout of auto-generated podcast ly will now be able to jump on its homepage. The doodle shows
transcripts. The text transcripts will around an episode using all the previous logos of the company
also be time-synced so listeners can and ends with the letters ‘oo’ replaced
visually follow along as a podcast epi- chapters as well. Podcasters by ’25’ in the word ‘Google’.
sode progresses, as per The Verge. can add time-stamped chap- Google was founded by Larry
One can access this feature by Page and Sergey Brin in September globe use Google to search, con-
scrolling down below the podcast ters to their shows that brief- 1998, as part of a PhD project. The nect, work, play, and SO much more!
player and tapping into a “read ly describe a segment of the two ideated the firm in 1995. By 1996, Thank you for evolving with us over
along” section. A transcription of a they had reportedly built a search en- the past 25 years. We can’t wait to see
show makes the podcast more ac- show, allowing listeners to gine, initially called ‘BackRub’, that where the future takes us, together,”
cessible to users and allows listeners preview topics or start listen- used links to determine the impor- the Google Doodle blog stated.
to skip around and skim an episode tance of individual web pages. Interestingly, Google was origi-
without listening through. ing at specific points. “Much has changed since 1998 nally founded on September 4, 1998.
Spotify said “millions” of pod- — including our logo as seen in to- According to reports, in 2005, the
cast episodes will get the tool, and in The auto-transcription feature day’s Doodle — but the mission company changed the birth date to
the future, creators could add media follows the recent addition of an has remained the same: to organize September 27 to make it coincide
to transcripts — a useful feature if a AI-generated voice cloning tool that the world’s information and make with the announcement of the record
creator is describing an image on the translates podcasts into different lan- it universally accessible and useful. number of pages that the search en-
show, for example. guages. Billions of people from all over the gine was indexing.

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