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Like many, Rohan Nayak’s daily routine included about three hours of travel to and from work. For entertainment, he explored all available audio options, including podcasts, audiobooks, and others. “What I really craved during those times was pure entertainment in audio format, and that seemed to be lacking,” Nayak said.
Audio series platform maker Pocket FM aims to be the Netflix of audio. That is, the company intends to match its audio series with hundreds of episodes to its users’ tastes. For that to work, it needs to release content rapidly — something it’s now turning to AI to help with. The Lightspeed-backed startup is giving its writers an AI tool set that can do things like suggest better endings to an episode or make the narrative more engaging. The hope is that the tools will speed up the story-writing process.
Whether it’s the Middle-earth of J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Hobbit” and “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy, the frozen north of George R. R. Martin’s “A Song of Ice and Fire,” or the whispered campfire tales of childhood, fantasy has always been intriguing and has ignited imaginations. And yet, after decades of big-budget studios producing for the big screens that (quite literally) owned the rights to many of these worlds, fantasy has become more than just a figment of people’s own imaginations. However, big screens meant bigger budgets, which, by default, limited the number of productions that could be made per year. To add to that, the production houses determined every aspect of these films from the visuals to the audio, which, in turn, all but killed individual imaginations.
Si te gustan las historias de horror, comedia o drama, pero no tienes tiempo para sentarte en la comodidad de tu hogar para ver series completas, llegó una nueva alternativa que te acompañará donde quiera que vayas. Y es que entre las más de 75 mil series originales de audio con las que cuenta la plataforma Pocket FM, seguro encuentras alguna alternativa para pasar un buen rato con historias innovadoras.
