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TL;DR Spotify is expanding beyond music and podcasts with narrated magazine articles inside the app.
More than 650 spoken stories from publishers like WIRED, The Atlantic, and Rolling Stone are now available through Spotify Audiobooks.
Narrated articles live in Spotify’s audiobook section and are capped at under two hours each.
Spotify wants to become more than the app you open for playlists and podcasts. Now, it’s coming for magazine reading time too.
The company has begun rolling out narrated long-form articles within the platform, adding another layer to its growing audiobook push. Beginning today, Spotify Audiobooks users in supported markets can stream more than 650 spoken magazine stories from publications including Rolling Stone, The Atlantic, Vogue, WIRED, Pitchfork, and Vanity Fair.
Spotify is calling the feature simply “Articles.” The goal is to allow users to listen to journalism in the same way they already consume podcasts and audiobooks during commutes, workouts, or while multitasking, rather than sitting down and reading a 5,000-word feature. They are found in the audiobook section, and each narrated article is less than two hours long.
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Premium subscribers can access the narrated pieces using their monthly audiobook listening allowance, while free users can buy individual articles for $2 each. Spotify says its in-house audiobook team produces the content, and some stories use a mix of human and AI-generated narration, TechCrunch reports. The company says parts narrated by AI will be clearly marked.
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