Spotify tests "Talk to Spotify" AI chatbot for voice and text control in the app

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Spotify has announced a new conversational AI feature called “Talk to Spotify” that puts a text-and-voice chatbot directly into the app.

The feature allows users to control playback, save songs, ask trivia about albums or podcast guests, analyze their own listening history, and more, all from within the app using text or voice commands.

The feature is rolling out gradually in beta to English-language Spotify Premium users aged 18 and above in the US, Ireland, and Sweden on iOS and Android.

Spotify isn’t shying away from embracing AI in its app , and the company is now testing a new way for users to discover and control their audio using conversational AI. The streaming giant has officially announced a new “Talk to Spotify” conversational experience that lets listeners type or speak directly to the app to have a back-and-forth conversation about their music, podcasts, and audiobooks.

With the new conversational experience, Spotify has essentially put an AI chatbot in the app. Users can type or speak anything related to their audio experience in a practically omnipresent text/voice input box, and Spotify will react accordingly. You can ask Spotify to “Play some artists I haven’t heard before,” and then follow up with natural language commands like “save this song,” “follow this artist,” “play more of this,” or just about anything else to steer the rest of the conversation.