Recast - Turn your read-later list into bite-size audio convos w/ AI

@cooliopenguin thanks Joerg, you nailed the use case here! 🤘

@tea_350life thanks for your kind words :)

@matthickory thank you Matt! 🙏

@alex_chepovoi amen, Alex! Thanks for your support 🤘

@5harath thanks Sharath! 💪

@doctorcrowe take your LOL award, good sir.

@alex_unger What kind of questions would you ask? Right now we try to keep the presentation unbiased, meaning it represents whatever the author of the input article represented. If it was opinionated with a slant, that would come through. In the future, we'd like to explore our hosts having more set and ongoing personas that have their own lens on the world that users could either come to understand like a specific podcast host, or maybe they'd want to configure their own hosts. Not sure how it would feel, but can't wait to get in the R&D lab and try a few approaches on for size. More broadly, you're touching on two out of a larger set of advancements to content transformation that we think deserve to be pursued, at least as far as R&D to find out if it's good or terrible! The recast you see today is very much a version 1, just to get going and to enable our team to earn the right to keep building.

@a18n I listened to a recast about Amazon and how it effects small business. I wanted to know more about what the author had said in regards to Amazon requiring that the price on Amazon was the lowest anywhere the business sold. It would be nice to be able to ask Recast to expand on that section of the article after or during listening to the overall summary.

@alex_unger ahhh, makes sense! While free form Q&A feels a bit double edged, this specific case could maybe be solved with simply expandable sections or levels of detail, which is something we'd want to get to more near term!

@vxipink cheers 😄

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@seansong Thanks! When you get a chance to try it, please let us know what you think :)

@verena_ortlieb Already a user, just listen to recasts now. Will be using Chrome Ext. for capturing articles and Recast for myself. Love listening experience.