Interested in learning more about something? With bespoke, you can create bite-sized podcasts at the press of a button, courtesy of AI host Matilda!
Enter a topic, choose from ideas, and vote on your favorite. Every day, the fan-favorite is shared on Spotify.
Bespoke is Trellis' first experiment in custom media & entertainment experiences powered by AI.
In the future, I'm excited about a world where we're able to reference high-quality sources like books, podcasts, & beloved websites (while also directing traffic back to those same creators for the long-form original content), & social curation of your bespoke library by the friends + community you learn alongside with.
Would absolutely love feedback from folks on what they'd like to see more of from a product that creates custom audio experiences. We'd love bespoke to become a product that you use everyday to generate a custom daily digest on the topics you care about.
Please share what you make! We'd love to listen to podcasts people generate! We're publishing the most upvoted generated podcast every day as an episode in our "Hall of Fame" Bespoke podcast. You can subscribe to that podcast & listen here: https://open.spotify.com/show/7D...
Thank you all for trying this out!
This was such a fun project to be a part of building. I love imagining a world where we can all get exactly the content we want, pumped into our ears and perfect for us. There's so many topics I want to learn about through an Audible book or podcast type experience, but there's often not a perfect match for me to listen to.
I can't wait to see how this evolves and I'm curious to ask how you are thinking about generating longer form content? Seems like the podcasts are all about 2 or 3 minutes right now but I want to go deeper on subjects.
@the_esc Yay! It was so fun collaborating. Imagining the experience to be *actually* 100% customizable essentially through natural language (the power of LLMs!) or interaction with your calendar (e.g. fitting into your free time slots); definitely at minimum would allow users to specify any length.
We put this in place for cost reasons & as a free prototype!
I used to always ask my google home to read me out wikipedia pages to hear someone talking to me about my topic of interest - this I feel is the product I have been looking for a long time ! I love the originality and creativity of the trellis team - always shipping and always passionate about education/learnings/books!
Excited to be part of this journey <3 go team
This is really cool! I made a few podcasts https://www.readtrellis.com/besp... & I'd love to be able to add in data sources so that the information was more trustworthy.
@daniel_schreiber1 oooooh Love the idea of being able to add information sources, that's really smart and not something that we thought about as far as I know.
Just gave your Marvel podcast an upvote :)
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Cool project. I wonder whether generating and voting on the postcasts you *want* instead of the podcasts you have (a la Reddit) will become more typical over time?
@infinitydeltax great questions. Did you generate one? Would love to see the link :)
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LOVE this - I'm especially such a fan of the podcast including three versions - transcript + key takeaways + audio, which not only makes the entire experience way more accessible, but also adaptive to different learning preferences / dispositions.
Question: I love being able to pick how long the podcast is - curious what's 'left out' when the podcast is shorter. Is the content just more high-level, or does it just focus on a salient aspect of the topic?
Suggestion: I'm curious if you've considered doing podcast series - content breakdown into sections. I.e., if the topic is quite broad, the user might be able to select how many sections they'd like the content broken down into / time for the sections, and that way the content could almost be more 'modular' / buildable.
I'm also interested to see what the social curation will look like. I'd love to be able to ask questions too and for community-moderated experts to be able to answer, and/or to be pointed to a 'follow-up' podcast that might further my learning.
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All in all, I'm so excited for what y'all are building!!! I wish I had this option in school, and would've loved this as supplemental learning about topics I was more curious about or didn't feel like I fully understood in a traditional classroom setting.
@ashleywen Wow, I feel humbled by your amazing feedback and thoughts here. The AI pretty much decides what to include or not for hte shorter podcasts. We decided to start with a focus on shorter content because it is faster to generate, but in the future with streaming we'll be able to offer longer form stuff.
100% I want to explore the direction of creating series. One thing we are imagining is that you could even decide while listening what direction you want the podcast to move in out of a series of options.
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@the_esc Very cool. I'm glad to see from the comments that I'm not the only one excited by longer-form content! As for series, love that idea of an interactive option! Suggesting future content based on what you've just listened to. I am so excited for how that could spark the joy of learning in kids (aren't we all kids :)
If/when you do do series, I'd also love seeing series-building that emulates learning paths / guided learning.
Sounds like a lot of incredible things are in the pipe. SO cool.
So excited about this!! Really impressed with this new medium the trellis team is diving into, and it's so cool to see user-generated audio to create bite-sized podcast snippets of the topics they're interested in learning more about.
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