AI and the Future of Audio series
The AI and the Future of Audio series explores how different broadcasters are using AI in novel ways. Over five chapters, our journalist Gretel Kahn speaks with different players in the field of broadcasting about their experiments using AI in their newsrooms and what comes next. The podcast focuses on looking at the future of broadcasting and audio while not getting lost in the AI hype.
About the host
Gretel Kahn is a Panamanian journalist. Before joining the Institute's editorial team, she worked for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) in Montreal covering daily news for radio and web.
Episode 1. In this opening episode of our series on AI and the Future of Audio, Gretel Kahn speaks with Chief Dramaturg in charge of digital content at Czech Radio Anna Vošalíková to explore what it sounds like when AI meets human creativity via the Digital Writer project by Czech public broadcaster Czech Radio. We discuss how collaboration between humans and AI can be fruitful. We also look at how the ChatGPT technology has evolved in the past four years.
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Episode 2. On April 27 2023, artificial intelligence completely took over the airwaves of Couleur 3, a station falling under the umbrella of public broadcaster Radio Télévision Suisse. The voices were AI clones of their real hosts, everything they said were scripts generated by AI, and even the music played was aggregated and composed by AI. Our journalist Gretel Kahn spoke with the station’s head Antoine Multone to find out how they did it.
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Episode 3. An AI news presenter named NAT is one of several synthetic news anchors created by Mexican broadcasting group Grupo Fórmula to attract younger audiences. Host Gretel Kahn spoke with Oswaldo Aguilar Castro, Director of Technology and AI Infrastructure at Grupo Fórmula, on how they trained NAT, feedback from audiences and whether she poses a challenge to human news anchors.
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Episode 4. Swedish broadcasting organisation, Swedish Radio, has been a pioneer when it comes to innovation in the audio space with AI as they have been reshaping audio news production and curation teams for the age of artificial intelligence since before the mass interest in the technology. Host Gretel Kahn spoke with spoke with Olle Zachrison, Head of Artificial Intelligence and News Strategy at Swedish Radio, on how they embrace the technology without succumbing to the hype.
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Episode 5. Tech company Futuri Media says they’ve created a tool that can do everything local radio does via AI including local news, interviews, music, and weather and traffic reports. For the final episode of our series on AI and the Future of Audio, host Gretel Kahn speaks with the CEO of Futuri Media, Daniel Anstandig.
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