Microsoft Launches

TapTechNews October 1st news, the tech media WindowsLatest today (October 1st) posted a blog post reporting that Microsoft has borrowed from PerplexityAI's DiscoverDaily and launched a brand new news podcast feature named CopilotDaily.

DiscoverDaily

DiscoverDaily of PerplexityAI is a podcast generated by AI, with one episode going online every day and the program lasting about 8 minutes and having two AI hosts supported by AI from ElevenLabs.

Perplexity's DiscoverDaily is based on its Discover feed, which contains popular reports, dynamic information, etc. from well-known news publications.

CopilotDaily

TapTechNews reported on September 28 that Microsoft is planning to expand Copilot to create personalized virtual news anchors to broadcast relevant news and dynamic information that users are interested in, and this service is named CopilotDaily.

CopilotDaily is a 100% AI-generated news podcast, focusing on calling the content of mainstream media such as Reuters and popular news headlines on the Internet, and there are four broadcasting voices: Meadow, Wave, Grove, and Canyon.

The duration of each episode is 3-4 minutes and will start playing at 30:00 (that is, 30 minutes and 0 seconds), and the total duration is displayed on the far right of the progress bar.

There are bubbles on the interface representing different news clips, and each clip is played in sequence. For example, a bubble may start at 30:00 and disappear after the end of the audio of that story. Then, the next news bubble may start at 30:25 and lasts for four minutes overall.

There are also playback controls on it, and the buttons on the left and right of the play button allow you to move forward or backward in the audio to jump to the previous or next story.