Amazon Music on Tuesday introduced the launch of “Matters,” a brand new synthetic intelligence characteristic that enables customers to discover podcast exhibits by the particular matters mentioned in them.
If you go to a podcast episode’s web page, search for the brand new hashtag under the episode description. You’ll be able to click on on a tag to see an inventory of associated podcast episodes on the identical matter. Along with widespread classes like comedy and information, you can even discover podcasts on particular matters like “espresso” and “dopamine.”
The corporate defined that the brand new characteristic is powered by Amazon Internet Companies (AWS) but in addition depends on human labor. Synthetic intelligence analyzes podcast transcripts and descriptions to determine key themes, and human group members then decide related tags so as to add to episode pages.
The characteristic is out there to Amazon Music customers on all iOS and Android units in america beginning right now. It should launch on prime podcasts on Amazon Music, together with The Every day, SmartLess and This American Life, amongst others. The corporate additionally plans to broaden Matters’ protection to extra podcast content material, which can deliver a broader vary of matters and an improved listing of associated podcast episodes.
One other AI characteristic added to Amazon Music is Maestro, an AI playlist generator that creates playlists primarily based on consumer prompts. The characteristic was launched in beta final April. Amazon acquired Snackable AI, an audio content material discovery engine, final 12 months to assist bolster its podcasting enterprise.
