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AI Audio Updates: Spotify, Particle, ElevenLabs

February 23, 2026·13 min·1 clip

The host confesses a 'love-hate relationship' with ElevenLabs after spending nearly $10,000 on their AI audio services.

Host Jaden Schaefer analyzes three major developments in AI audio: Spotify's new AI-powered prompted playlists that generate custom music selections from text prompts, Particle's AI news app that extracts key moments from podcasts so users don't have to listen to entire episodes, and ElevenLabs' advancements in AI audio dubbing and translation that enable multilingual podcast distribution. He also promotes his own AI platform, AIbox.ai.

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AI audio comes through here as a practical shift in how people search, skim, and use listening.

The episode treats AI audio as a product problem, not a slogan, and that is what gives it weight. It moves from Spotify's prompted playlists to Particle's podcast clips and then to ElevenLabs' reporting on AI audio in publishing and news, showing how these tools are already…

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