Amazon Music’s new ‘Topics’ feature uses AI to recommend podcast episodes

Amazon Music connected Tuesday introduced Topics, a caller AI-powered characteristic that should fto you easily discover different related podcasts based connected topics discussed successful a peculiar episode.

After analyzing podcast transcriptions and descriptions to place cardinal topics, AI pinch nan aided by quality reviewers make a Topics tag button. Located beneath each section description, clicking connected immoderate tag will nutrient a database of related podcast episodes to that subject.

As an example, Amazon shared an Amazon Music mobile app screenshot of an section astir nan effects of caffeine arsenic a supplier from nan Stuff You Should Know podcast. Titled, “Selects: The Duality of Caffeine,” Amazon added 3 Topics tags: “Caffeine,” “Coffee,” and “Dopamine” underneath nan merchandise description.

Right now, nan characteristic is only disposable for U.S. customers utilizing nan latest type of nan Amazon Music mobile app connected iOS aliases Android. It’s presently rolling retired crossed “top podcasts,” though Amazon plans to grow it to others.

With Topics, Amazon’s likely trying to support up pinch Spotify. Last November, nan rival announced it had started utilizing Google Cloud’s AI devices to analyse its podcasts and audiobooks. Its purpose was to connection amended personalized recommendations arsenic users noted Spotify’s suggestions for related podcasts connected user’s homescreens and nether its “More for illustration section” weren’t ever relevant.