A new microphone with a laser.
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A brand new microphone, the Lewitt Audio Ray, has been launched with a laser.
The microphone has what it calls autofocus for sound, tuning the voice depending on how
close or far away the person is from the microphone.
It's a new and novel idea.
Our review says it could be an excellent guest microphone or for use on camera.
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And if you're wondering what it sounds like, this is what it sounds like because I'm using
it right now.
Rephonic has started rolling out details of Spotify follower numbers for every podcast
in its directory.
The data appeared in some users' apps a few weeks ago.
Seems like the HotPod hiatus will be longer than first thought.
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How many podcasts make it to five or more episodes?
Only half of them says data from the Podcast Index.
Libsyn Ads have announced a partnership to represent the Toronto Stars podcast for ad
sales.
The true crime show One Minute Remaining is to be made available to Spanish speakers.
The Acast show is using Wondercraft to introduce the show to Spanish speakers globally.
Uno Minuto Restante is now available in all major podcast apps.
And Adswizz has successfully re-certified for version 2.1 of the IAB podcast measurement
program.
Podtrac and Simplecast also re-certified in March.
On the Tech Lab website, there are still a number of companies only certified to version
2.0, who haven't re-certified in more than three years.
Anchor, now Spotify, Buzzsprout, Captivate, Chartable, Libsyn, Megaphone and PodBean.
In People News, Lotten Skeppenstedt has been hired as director of platform services at
Swedish podcast platform Podspace.
And in podcast news ahead of this year's BAFTA television awards in the UK, the countdown
to the BAFTA's podcast returns again today, hosted by Alex Zane and made by Rethink Audio,
the show will feature informed and entertaining behind-the-scenes chat about the making of
the most popular and critically acclaimed shows from the past 12 months.
And the Podcast Gurus podcast this week has our editor James Cridland, why that's
me, as a guest.
The show is also available in video form.
Apparently, I say that "developing sustainable content creation and distribution practices
is essential to prevent burnout and maintain quality".
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