We’re thrilled to announce our latest partnership with Kleine Zeitung, one of Austria’s most influential and widely read news titles. The collaboration introduces audio articles as a subscription-only feature, read in a voice familiar to their readers. Listen to short demo below: After developing a custom ..read more

Thomson Reuters is a global leader in providing services and information to industries that require accuracy, speed, and reliability.  In early 2024, they partnered with BeyondWords to transform how their audiences engage with their legal directories, FindLaw.com and Abogado.com. In this post, learn how Thomson Reuters leveraged ..read more

We’re excited to announce the release of version 5.0.0 of the BeyondWords WordPress plugin.  This update introduces key enhancements to plugin settings, providing a more streamlined and integrated experience moving forward. Easily customise key features, including voice settings and player options, all within the WordPress ..read more

In today’s fast-paced media landscape, news publishers eager to adopt AI audio for their articles can find themselves struggling to get started. Lengthy and costly development cycles typically involved in integrating new features into existing publishing workflows can be discouraging. Without plug-and-play solutions, publishers can face delays, increased ..read more

Data-driven decisions start with good data. That's why we've built powerful analytics right into the BeyondWords Player. Whenever you use it to bring AI audio to your articles, you'll get valuable insights automatically through our analytics. No extra steps required – just the information you need to enhance audience engagement. Traditional podcast platforms usually offer basic metrics like total listens or downloads but lack the necessary in-depth insights. They often miss out on detailed metrics, creating a gap in understanding audience engagement. We bridge this gap by providing publishers ..read more

We're excited to announce our partnership with Bergens Tidende, the largest regional media house in Norway. This collaboration strengthens our long-standing relationship with Schibsted, bringing AI audio to another of their esteemed titles. Key to this partnership was delivering a voice that captures the distinct regional style of Bergens Tidende, providing their audiences with a specific voice that is different from the typical Oslo dialect used in standard text-to-speech voices. To achieve this, we trained our model to effectively clone the chosen speaker’s native voice, and the result is o ..read more

At BeyondWords, we've spent a lot of time thinking about and building products to help modern news publishers bring captivating audio to all their stories. One of those products is the BeyondWords Player. When we founded BeyondWords, few news publishers made their articles available in audio. The few that did usually published just a handful of audio articles each week, often as podcasts on external streaming services like Acast or Spotify. To make the audio available on their own websites and apps, publishers needed to manually embed an external player in each article. This made it difficul ..read more

AI voices have advanced rapidly over the last few years and are now almost indistinguishable from human voices. However, nuances in text can still pose challenges, particularly in news reporting, where publishers need automation tools to match the speed of the news cycle, and reader expectations for audio quality are high. At BeyondWords, all content is preprocessed before speech synthesis to achieve as accurate pronunciations as possible. This text preprocessing enables our AI voices to recognise number ranges, decimal points, shortened words and more. For example, compare the two pronuncia ..read more

Summary Custom AI voice launched on Aftenposten in early 2023. Unique voice developed from podcast host Anne Lindholm. 58% average audio article completion rate observed. Daily usage of audio articles on par with podcasts. In the news sector, Schibsted News Media has a reputation for consistently delivering excellence through innovative product strategies. Notably, the group is renowned for their fearless transition to a digital-first publishing model, making early investments into video, and nimble experimenting with paywalls and new revenue models. Most recently, Schibsted turned to audio ..read more

We're excited to announce that we've just released a major update to our AI-powered audio CMS. This update includes a new BeyondWords Player, REST API, and voice cloning support for several new locales. New BeyondWords Player The new player represents a radical evolution in our approach to user experience. We rebuilt it from the ground up, introducing powerful new features such as floating widgets, playback from segments, intuitive playback controls and more. Floating widgets allow you to listen to audio in a floating window, so you can keep browsing while you listen. Playback from segments ..read more