@Techmeme@techhub.socialSpotify launches a DM feature to let users share audio and send text-based messages, available to mobile users over 16 years old in "select markets" this week (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/765771/spotify-messages-dms-audio…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialSpotify launches a DM feature to let users share audio and send text-based messages, available to mobile users over 16 years old in "select markets" this week (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/765771/spotify-messages-dms-audio…
@servelan@newsie.socialTrump’s lawsuit against Bob Woodward over audiobook is dismissed | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-lawsuit-bob-woodward-audiobook-b2792030.html
@memeorandum@universeodon.comJudge dismisses Trump's lawsuit against Bob Woodward over audiobook (Reuters)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/judge-dismisses-trump-lawsuit-bob-woodward-audiobook-trump-tapes-rage-rcna219731
http://www.memeorandum.com/250719/p38#a250719p38
@laxsill@social.spejset.orgbehöver det se ut såhär varje gång Cory Doctorow släpper något? finns det inget bättre sätt att göra det på?
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSpotify expands audiobook access to family plan members with new plans, including Audiobooks , offering more listening hours, in the UK and 10 countries (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/17/spotify-expands-a…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialSpotify expands audiobook access to family plan members with new plans, including Audiobooks , offering more listening hours, in the UK and 10 countries (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/17/spotify-expands-a…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialA federal judge dismisses Trump's ~$50M 2023 lawsuit against Bob Woodward for publishing tapes from interviews for his 2020 book Rage as an audiobook (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/d
@maxheadroom@hub.uckermark.socialWas listening to a song from Paul Kalkbrenner this morning on Spotify. In the middle of the song the thing played an Audiobook Intro of about 30-40 seconds and then the song just continued.
Weird glitch in their matrix? Them preparing in song ads for payed accounts? We'll see. #enshittification continues
@mrysav@social.linux.pizzaI'm sure I'm preaching to the choir on the Fediverse, but Audiobookshelf is just so good. I have a ton of audiobooks I purchased on various platforms over the years that are now in one place, and when I have the ePub version as well, I can upload it and reference back to passages when I want.
https://www.audiobookshelf.org/
@kurtsh@mastodon.social
@cellfourteen@social.petertoushkov.euMy first novel, Department 'H', is now available as an audiobook at Storytel!
https://www.storytel.com/bg/books/о%D1дел-и-11783340
Storytel tend to finance translating into English some Bulgarian audiobooks…
@nitpicking@mstdn.partyI'm listening to the audiobook of *The Last Dangerous Visions*. I'm an hour in, and it's still #JoeStraczynski talking and talking and ....
He quotes Harlan, but it's over an hour (I think two hours, but I'm not done yet) of #JMS writing before the actual stories. I'm just o…
@mlawton@mstdn.socialFinished the audiobook, "Flybot", by Dennis E. Taylor. Ray Porter does the narration and he's always fantastic.
A scientist performing an experiment with a small EMP burst discovers a now-inert metallic fly. What looks like corporate espionage isn't so simple. A number of experimental microchips, capable of running AI at the hardware level have gone missing. He'd go to the police, but wants to learn more. And then there's a body... too late.
4/5 stars ⭐⭐…
@nobodyinperson@fosstodon.orgAny #SailfishOS users out here know how to make #StreetComplete usable again by either disabling the any-audio-interrupting plop sounds or teaching SailfishOS to just keep playing audio if another app makes sound?
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialA US judge rules that Amazon must face a proposed class action lawsuit by independent authors accusing it of monopolizing the audiobook retail market (Mike Scarcella/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/a
@davej@dice.camp‘#AI doesn’t know what an orgasm sounds like’: #audiobook #actors grapple with the rise of robot narrators | #Audiobooks | The Gu…
@kurtsh@mastodon.socialAmber's reaction absolutely rules. And she's right: Read the damn book. And buy the audiobook.
▶️ Project Hail Mary - Official Trailer - Reaction (from someone who loves the book)
https://youtube.com/watch?v=AU07DcTE1Xc&si=n4OUrnLZmRt3qKjA
@mlawton@mstdn.socialFinished the short story, “The Answer is No” by Fredrik Backman, the story of a man without any attachments who just wants to be left alone to eat pad thai & play video games. The neighbors in his apartment keep intruding upon his privacy in ludicrously farcical ways.
Great writer & some great moments, but the whole thing felt like a collection of tropes. Had there been a laugh track on the audiobook, I’d not have been surprised.
3/5 stars ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
@arXiv_eessAS_bot@mastoxiv.pageHiFiTTS-2: A Large-Scale High Bandwidth Speech Dataset
Ryan Langman, Xuesong Yang, Paarth Neekhara, Shehzeen Hussain, Edresson Casanova, Evelina Bakhturina, Jason Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04152
