Amazon Music on Wednesday launched Matters, a brand new AI-powered characteristic that ought to allow you to simply uncover different associated podcasts based mostly on subjects mentioned in a selected episode.
After analyzing podcast transcriptions and descriptions to determine key subjects, AI with the aided by human reviewers generate a Matters tag button. Positioned beneath every episode description, clicking on any tag will produce a listing of associated podcast episodes to that topic.
For instance, Amazon shared an Amazon Music cellular app screenshot of an episode in regards to the results of caffeine as a drug from the Stuff You Ought to Know podcast. Titled, “Selects: The Duality of Caffeine,” Amazon added three Matters tags: “Caffeine,” “Espresso,” and “Dopamine” beneath the product description.
Proper now, the characteristic is simply out there for U.S. prospects utilizing the most recent model of the Amazon Music cellular app on iOS or Android. It’s at present rolling out throughout “prime podcasts,” although Amazon plans to increase it to others.
With Matters, Amazon’s probably making an attempt to maintain up with Spotify. Final November, the rival introduced it had began utilizing Google Cloud’s AI instruments to research its podcasts and audiobooks. Its purpose was to supply higher personalised suggestions as customers famous Spotify’s solutions for associated podcasts on person’s homescreens and underneath its “Extra like part” weren’t at all times related.
