Pocket FM’s audio series sounds better with AudioStack
Key Takeaways
Pocket FM Germany is partnering with AudioStack to scale and improve its AI-produced German audio fiction, using AudioStack’s production API to automate the full text-to-audio workflow beyond just voice. With access to 1,700+ AI voices and the Voice Intelligence Layer for better pronunciation and naturalness, Pocket FM can produce higher-quality series faster and reach even more listeners.
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In a world where audio content is gaining immense traction, Pocket FM emerges as a pioneering platform that is reshaping the audio entertainment landscape with audio series, a category created, nurtured and owned by Pocket FM. Founded in 2018 by the visionary trio - Rohan Nayak, Nishanth KS, and Prateek Dixit - Pocket FM has quickly ascended to a Series D stage company, becoming a driving force in the world of audio storytelling.
Key Takeaways
Pocket FM Germany is partnering with AudioStack to scale and improve its AI-produced German audio fiction, using AudioStack’s production API to automate the full text-to-audio workflow beyond just voice. With access to 1,700+ AI voices and the Voice Intelligence Layer for better pronunciation and naturalness, Pocket FM can produce higher-quality series faster and reach even more listeners.
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We’re delighted to announce that AudioStack and Pocket FM in Germany are teaming up to bring millions of hours of gripping audio series to life. Lifelike AI voices, a reimagined workflow with a seamlessly-embedded production API, and text-to-audio technology mean Pocket FM’s original series are poised to reach more people and sound better than ever.
100,000+ exclusive audio series, 200+ million listeners – and an average listener time of 125 minutes every single day.
It’s fair to say that when people tune into Pocket FM, they’re hooked. With gripping, episodic audio series that you can listen to anytime, anywhere, it’s little wonder that Pocket FM is the world’s largest audio series platform, and the largest to produce it with AI voice synthesis technology.
With a strong presence across the world, Pocket FM’s team in Germany is just one of its areas where listeners are hungry for bingeworthy fiction content in their language… and they are looking to AudioStack to unlock the full potential of AI text-to-audio production to connect listeners with more engrossing audio series.
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Pocket FM is a powerhouse of audio fiction, and its production team has innovated by using AI text-to-speech technology to produce audio series with lifelike narration and characters in a fraction of the time and at significantly reduced cost than conventional methods.
However, it has two challenges:
It knows that a scalable and seamless content creation process has more elements than just voice, which can slow down creative delivery.
To deliver quality across an increased number of AI-synthesized TTS voices in German, it requires standardization to ensure voices sound natural.
Here’s how a partnership with AudioStack is helping them remove barriers and improve what they already do best.
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Here’s what AudioStack is supporting Pocket FM to do:
1. Upgrading Pocket FM to a made-for-scale production API
AudioStack unites all major voice providers under one umbrella – giving publishers like Pocket FM access to 1,700+ voices over 14 different, leading AI voice synthesis technologies.
However, it isn’t just AI-powered text-to-speech technology that will help make more compelling content. A text-to-audio solution, delivered by AudioStack’s API, allows content publishers to automate every step of the process, from importing scripts and assigning voices, to adding atmospheric sounds and QA’ing playback.
It’s a tailor-made platform for generating short and longform content (50,000+ words) that will significantly reduce the barriers to production, accelerate creativity and enable more, richer content to be produced in a fraction of the time: seconds and minutes, instead of hours and days.
Learn more about the difference between text-to-speech and AI-powered text-to-audio with AudioStack.
2. Voice Intelligence delivers better German-language voices
With more voices to choose from and more content to be produced in German, AudioStack goes beyond a TTS provider – as a complete audio production infrastructure, it embeds a specific standardization feature built just for German: the Voice Intelligence Layer.
With it, not only will Pocket FM be able to choose more narrators and characters from the AI voices, but it will automate manual interventions to improve naturalness, pronunciation and contextual accuracy.
AudioStack’s Voice Intelligence Layer:
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Enhances TTS output with human-like accuracy.
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Uses a normalizer to auto-correct acronyms, dates, numbers and more.
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Incorporates Lexi (a system to generate and remember custom word/brand pronunciations via text or phonemes).
Working across all of the AI voice providers within AudioStack’s AI Audio production infrastructure, it ensures greater choice, minimizes manual QA – and simply makes German-language AI voices sound more vivid.
Results
An AI-powered publishing partnership
AudioStack is an AI-powered audio infrastructure that’s far more powerful than any AI-tool: thanks to technology (and expertise) that reimagines the entire audio production workflow.
“The Pocket FM–Audiostack partnership is a promising example of where AI audio can be a publisher’s advantage. By delivering more German AI voices at a higher quality thanks to the Voice Intelligence Layer, Pocket FM will have an automation-first approach to content production and QA. It will save time, let Pocket FM’s teams be more creative, and ultimately deliver growth in Pocket FM’s listener base.” - Idan Schmorak, General Manager - APAC & MENA
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"AudioStack helps us accelerate what we already do well by creating original, immersive audio series. It allows our teams to focus less on production complexity and more on delivering great stories for German-speaking listeners. We're immensely excited to be partnering with them."
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