Radio.Cloud says its latest product is meant to be a host’s best friend and take the manual work out of show prep.
The feature is called Assistant AI. It gives hosts a research assistant to help with inspiration for live talk breaks and voice tracks.
“Fully integrated into Radio.Cloud’s playlist, Assistant AI allows hosts to choose the specific talk break, the content to prep for and how much content to provide. Examples include local news, local weather, station promos, relevant information about the next artist and song, and more.”
Assistant AI generates a block of text and some additional bite-size pieces of key information. Hosts can use part or all the content on-air; the company says most choose to use the text as inspiration for their live break or voice track.
“This removes the manual research step which saves hosts enormous time over a four-hour shift, especially while working on-air at multiple stations.”
The next step in development is giving hosts the ability to choose an AI voice or a cloned voice to use as a co-host for certain talk breaks. “By highlighting part of the generated content, hosts can pick a voice and create a co-host for nimble back and forth in a live or voice tracked setting.”
Radio.Cloud says it sees a benefit to radio stations and hosts. “Assistant AI is the perfect middle ground between a traditional prep service and a fully AI voice tracked station. Hosts increase efficiency and productivity thanks to AI doing research, but with the product built into Radio.Cloud the specific content generated is way more tailored to your stations than previously possible.”
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