Spotify announced the addition of Personal Podcasts, which allow users to generate podcasts directly within Spotify based on their interests and listening habits. The creation follows a similar mechanism to the existing Prompted Playlists feature — users write a prompt and Spotify generates audio based on the input.
Spotify gives the example: You can create a daily briefing, a deep dive on a topic you are curious about, or a weekly roundup. Ask “Share my daily city updates and tell me about local concerts from artists I love” or “Help me understand economics in five minutes” and Spotify will create a tailored audio overview while linking you to relevant episodes, shows, and creators where you can explore more.
Studio by Spotify
The Personal Podcasts feature inside the main app is compelling. But the bigger announcement was the standalone desktop application.
The centrepiece was Studio by Spotify Labs, a new standalone desktop app launching in research preview across more than twenty markets. Powered by an AI agent that can browse the web and connect to users’ email and calendars, Studio generates fully personalized podcasts from natural language prompts.
Users can add links, PDFs, and text, and choose a custom voice to generate podcasts. The ability to feed your own documents, articles, and notes into an AI that converts them into spoken audio is a genuinely different use case from anything Spotify has offered before.
All AI generated podcasts are saved in your Spotify library for personal consumption and are synced across devices. They are not available publicly.
The AI Q&A Feature
Beyond creation, Spotify is also changing how listeners interact with existing content. Spotify is rolling out an AI-powered Q&A feature for Premium mobile users in the US, Sweden, and Ireland. Users can ask questions about the episode they are listening to or a concept mentioned in the podcast and get answers.
This transforms passive podcast consumption into an interactive learning experience — the kind of feature that makes a long commute feel like a productive conversation rather than a one-way broadcast.
