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October 3, 2023: Spotify said '''Premium subscribers will now have access to more than 150,000 audiobooks.''' As a start, Premium Individual, Family and Duo accounts will have 15 hours of audiobooks listening time per month. The feature will be rolled out today in the U.K. and Australia. U.S premium users will have access to it before the end of the year. Users who deplete their 15 hours listening time before the month ends can purchase additional 10 hours to finish their series. Spotify added that Premium users can also download the audiobooks for offline listening<ref>https://newsroom.spotify.com/2023-10-03/audiobooks-included-in-spotify-premium/</ref>. The Wall Street Journal had reported last month that Spotify was testing this feature and that it could offer up to 20 hours of free audiobooks per month<ref>https://www.investmentwiki.org/wiki/Spotify#Spotify_Audiobooks</ref>. | |||
September 29, 2023: Spotify introduces '''auto-generated time-synced transcripts to more podcast creators''' and shows. The company said it will rollout these transcripts to millions of episodes in the coming weeks. Additionally, Spotify wants to enable creators to add media to these transcripts in future. Spotify is also '''expanding podcast chapters to mobile users''', giving them more information about the episode they plan to listen to<ref>https://newsroom.spotify.com/2023-09-28/international-podcast-day-transcripts-chapters-show-pages-global/</ref>. | September 29, 2023: Spotify introduces '''auto-generated time-synced transcripts to more podcast creators''' and shows. The company said it will rollout these transcripts to millions of episodes in the coming weeks. Additionally, Spotify wants to enable creators to add media to these transcripts in future. Spotify is also '''expanding podcast chapters to mobile users''', giving them more information about the episode they plan to listen to<ref>https://newsroom.spotify.com/2023-09-28/international-podcast-day-transcripts-chapters-show-pages-global/</ref>. | ||