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International Podcast Day

Today, the 30th of September, is the international podcast day. As you may also know, podcasts are the digital audio version of content, downloadable by users. Podcasting dates back to the 1980s and has become one of the attractive broadcasting methods used by hundreds of bloggers since then.

This type of broadcasting, also known as audio blogging, has attracted more than 42 million Americans of twelve years old and above. The availability of more than 115,000 English language podcasts demonstrates its great share among online content.

Since users are aware of the accessibility and other benefits of audio content, more and more bloggers are using podcasts to obtain more audience. They deploy technology to get their posts voiced. Read aloud technology, as offered by Artivle, is an AI tech that makes it easier to add voice aspect to the blogs and online content.

Artivle offers an easy to apply solution to texts with the purpose of converting written content to audio. The technology deployed by Artivle has been changing over the recent years, making it similar to natural read.

You can easily sign up just by clicking on this link and start converting your texts now.
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