SCOUT FM a new podcast service launched today.It will just ask you a few questions to find out what you like, then create a podcast station customized to you. The experience is primarily designed for use on smart speakers, like Amazon’s Alexa-powered Echo devices. It is also available as iOS and Android applications.The Scout.fm service began as a series of experiments on Alexa. podcast will begin playing Scout.fm favors those without ads at the very beginning allowing you to listen as long as you would like, or say “next” to move to the next one. Each new podcast episodes has a brief, spoken introduction that Scout.fm handwrites, so you know what’s coming up. Your listening can go on for hours, offering you a hands-free means of switching podcasts and discovering new favorites.The app will also adjust to your preferences over time, removing those you tend to skip much like how the thumbs down works on Pandora.To access this Alexa platform. You first launch the app by saying “Alexa, open Scout.fm.” The app will respond using a human voice actor’s voice, not Alexa’s by explaining briefly what Scout.fm does then asks you to choose one of three types of talk radio stations: “Daily news, brain food, or true stories.”The first is a news station, similar to Alexa’s “Flash Briefing;” the second, “brain food,” focuses on other interesting and informative content, that’s not day-to-day news; and the last is a true crime podcast station.
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