In the current AI landscape, companies often integrate services such as email, calendars, documents, and notes to offer personalized daily briefings in audio or text format. Spotify is joining this trend with the launch of a new standalone desktop application named Studio by Spotify Labs, aimed at delivering such functionalities.
Recently, Spotify introduced a feature that allows users to create podcasts around specific topics. This tool adds personal context to the podcast creation process. Additionally, consistent with industry trends, the Studio app incorporates an agent capable of browsing the internet and retrieving personal information to assist in crafting individual podcasts.
For example, users can request a daily brief or a podcast tailored to their emails and calendar events. A multi-step command such as, “Create a daily audio brief for my road trip through Italy. Outline my day with my calendar and bookings. Suggest a great dinner spot in the area. Conclude with a podcast recommendation for the drive,” can generate a personalized podcast.
These AI-generated podcasts are stored in the user’s Spotify library, accessible across devices but kept private. They are not shared with the public.
The company has indicated that this app is in an early preview phase, emphasizing that AI may produce errors and could generate unreliable content at times.
This research preview of the app is rolling out in over 20 markets, with availability aimed at users who are 18 years or older.
The Studio app will go head-to-head with Google’s NotebookLM, which gained traction a few years ago with its podcast generation feature based on selected content. Google also introduced another tool for producing a daily podcast informed by the Discover feed. Following this trend, firms like Adobe and ElevenLabs, alongside apps like Hero and Huxe, have adopted this format for topic exploration and daily briefings.
With the launch of this desktop application, Spotify builds on its previous introduction of a command-line tool that allowed coding tool users to create and save personal podcasts to their Spotify libraries. This new Studio app opens the door for non-coders to benefit from similar features.
This launch highlights Spotify’s ambition to deepen its involvement in audio content. The desktop app could pave the way for future integrations aimed at simplifying the podcast creation process. There is potential for the app to also function as a Granola-style notetaker by capturing system audio. While merely speculative now, the interest in meeting notetaking systems demonstrated by startups like Rewind and Cluely could signal this direction for Spotify in the future.
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