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Podcasts and audiobooks are booming, now making up 25% of daily listening. AI voice models now enable quick, cheap article narration, but AI aversion persists. Voxi.fm offers a tool for creators to add natural audio and distribute as a podcast, distinct from NotebookLM’s AI-generated conversations.

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  • Spoken-word audio accounts for 25% of daily listening in the US, surpassing radio.
  • Multitasking is the top reason for choosing audio.
  • Advances in AI voice models make high-quality narration fast and affordable.
  • Voxi.fm focuses on AI reading the original text, not generating conversations like NotebookLM.

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