Spotify’s AI DJ gets new voices, personalities, and an option for less chatter

Spotify’s AI DJ, 1 of the company’s earlier efforts successful embracing AI technology to link radical with their favourite music, is getting an upgrade. On Tuesday, the streamer announced that users volition present beryllium capable to customize their DJ much similar they tin an AI assistant, by choosing betwixt antithetic voices and personalities. Those who similar the feature, but not each the chatter, tin besides present opt for an acquisition with little commentary successful betwixt sets.

Since archetypal launching the AI DJ successful 2023, Spotify has leveraged AI crossed to amended each areas of its app. Most recently, that has included updates that let users to chat with a conversational AI agent astir music, fine-tune their recommendations with prompts, create playlists with AI, and enactment with third-party agents similar ChatGPT and Claude. However, the DJ remains 1 of Spotify’s astir fashionable AI features, arsenic it’s used by implicit 94M Spotify Premium listeners.

Now, it’s revisiting 1 of its archetypal large AI features, taking a cue from the personalization options different AI assistants routinely offer.

With the update, Spotify Premium subscribers volition beryllium capable to take from an expanded acceptable of AI DJ voices successful some English and Spanish. The voices see 7 English options with British, American, Irish, Australian, and Indian accents, and 2 caller Spanish options.

The antithetic voices volition person their ain unsocial personalities arsenic well. For instance, users tin prime betwixt 3 American voices, 1 of which is laid-back and lukewarm (Casey), different that’s nonstop and has an borderline (Tess), and a 3rd that has a Southern accent and a youthful vigor (Lane). In summation to the different assorted determination accents, determination are besides 2 caller Spanish voices, 1 that’s much down-to-earth (Nico) and 1 that’s much witty and affable (Fabi).

The voices volition not regenerate the AI DJ’s archetypal voice, “X,” which was based connected that of a Spotify employee’s existent dependable recordings. However, DJ Fabi and Nico volition present beryllium the lone Spanish voices available, replacing the earlier “Livi.”

The different alteration allows users to toggle disconnected the commentary betwixt songs, reducing the DJ’s interruptions. While typically, the AI DJ introduces antithetic selections of music, explaining what it picked and why, users tin present bounds it to little acknowledgements erstwhile they archetypal commencement the DJ diagnostic and erstwhile they crook it off. Spotify says this would let radical to usage the DJ astatine times they whitethorn person turned to a playlist instead, similar erstwhile hosting a enactment wherever they privation euphony successful the background, but not the chatter.

To entree the DJ, users tin hunt for the word “DJ” successful the hunt barroom of the Spotify app connected their device, past pat the three-dot paper to prime their dependable and commentary settings. To alteration genres, artists, oregon recommendations portion the DJ is driving things, you simply pat the DJ fastener again.

Spotify says the caller voices statesman rolling retired today, November 10, to Premium users successful the markets wherever DJ is already supported. Currently, that includes implicit 95 planetary markets, wherever the DJ is supported successful English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, and Brazilian Portuguese.