We just released an interactive audio game called Links. It’s a daily crossword for your ears. (Go play it!) We built Links to demonstrate the capabilities of our powerful new audio publishing application, Dialog.
A New Era for Audio
For most podcast and radio producers, this is what audio looks like:
Linear sound waves with a single beginning, middle, and end.
This is what audio looks like in Dialog, a node-based flow that can incorporate branches, connections to outside real-time services like text-to-speech and LLMs, and can even open the user’s microphone and check their exact location (with their permission, of course).
Dialog transforms on-demand audio from a monologue into a conversation, and even a journey. No two sessions with a Dialog-authored experience are exactly the same, because the listener helps shape each one.
Voice recording, AI, text-to-speech and voice-cloning technologies have improved at breakneck speed. But these amazing tools are trapped doing mundane jobs. Voice-based AI is typically used to handle customer interactions, ads, or routine tasks, seldom venturing into more creative territory.
Dialog makes it easy for today’s most creative audio professionals to author dynamic experiences—open-ended shows, personalized briefings with news and lifestyle segments, localized content using the OSLO location standard, even quizzes and games. Dialog publishes to apps and websites.
We’re even working on ways to integrate Dialog experiences into podcast apps, allowing shows to create interactive bonus content that lives alongside their episodes.
A Flexible Platform with Multiple Applications
Audio creators can use Dialog to make:
- Shows personalized to a listener’s specific interests
- Interactive, “Choose Your Own Adventure”-style stories
- Hands-free audio games like trivia or puzzles
- AI-assisted low-touch podcasts
- An audio version of your favorite newsletter
- Geo-targeted local content and offers
Links, for example, uses Dialog’s lightweight LLM and synthetic voice tools to create an intuitive, responsive game that feels natural and fun.
A Quick Example
Here’s a video that shows a very simple example of how you can build dynamic moments into Dialog.
Want to learn more? We have a limited number of accounts for test partners as we build the capabilities of this new platform. Contact us for a demo and we’ll help you design your own dynamic audio experiences.