{"id":265175,"date":"2018-06-20T08:31:59","date_gmt":"2018-06-20T06:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=265175"},"modified":"2018-06-20T08:33:06","modified_gmt":"2018-06-20T06:33:06","slug":"google-launches-podcasts-app-for-android","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/265175-google-launches-podcasts-app-for-android.html","title":{"rendered":"Google launches Podcasts app for Android"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google has launched a new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.google\/products\/android\/listen-google-podcasts-now-android\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>podcast app<\/strong><\/a> named Google Podcasts for Android.<\/p>\n<p>The app uses Google&#8217;s recommendation algorithms to suggest podcasts based on listening history and preferences.<\/p>\n<p>After downloading the Podcasts app, users can subscribe and listen to any podcast for free &#8211; and they are also able to adjust playback speed or skip over prolonged silences.<\/p>\n<p>Google Podcasts syncs across multiple devices, meaning you can also pick up where your podcast left off on another device when listening online.<\/p>\n<p>The app features Google Assistant integration, allowing users to search for podcasts directly from their Assistant interface.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Looking forward, Google Podcasts will be a launchpad for building an even better podcast listening experience using AI,&#8221; said Google.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For example, as speech-to-text technology continues to improve, we\u2019ll be able to provide new features like automatic subtitling.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Google Podcasts is available to download from the <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.google.android.apps.podcasts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Google Play Store<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/265043-google-rolls-out-android-messages-for-web.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Google rolls out Android Messages for web<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has launched a new podcast app named Google Podcasts for Android.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":265177,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[397,51779,40300,18420],"class_list":["post-265175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-android","tag-google-podcasts","tag-podcasts","tag-smartphone-app"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265175"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265175"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":265187,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265175\/revisions\/265187"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}