""Your Personal Podcast" is available to registered users on the Post's mobile app, starting today. The goal behind the AI-powered podcast is to give The Post's audience more ways to access its journalism, in a "flexible way," said Bailey Kattleman, The Washington Post's head of product and design. The podcast was developed under a multi-year agreement between The Washington Post and AI voice-generating software company Eleven Labs, which creates audio versions of articles for publishers like The Post, Time and The Atlantic."
"Users can choose to listen to an AI-generated podcast, which selects and stitches together roughly four top stories, based on the user's reading and listening history and topics they follow in the app. Two AI hosts take turns summarizing the news stories, conversing back and forth with a more casual tone than a straight news briefing, according to Kattleman. Each story is less than two minutes long. The podcast continues to change throughout the day, based on the news cycle."
Your Personal Podcast is available to registered users on the Post's mobile app. The product is built under a multi-year agreement with Eleven Labs and uses AI voice-generation to convert articles into audio. The AI-generated podcast selects and stitches roughly four top stories based on a user's reading and listening history and the topics followed in the app. Two AI-generated hosts alternate summaries and converse in a more casual tone. Each story runs under two minutes and the episode updates throughout the day as the news cycle changes. Users can customize topics, duration and AI voices via prompts in the audio player. The product expands audio offerings to reach younger, more diverse listeners and is positioned as a supplemental experience alongside existing podcasts.
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