The podcast Dirty Diana featuring Demi Moore may be turned into a TV series. Photos: AFP
Cooped up like many of us, movie stars, politicians and reality show types eager to hold onto their fans, are turning to podcasts to get through the pandemic, converting their homes – even a bathroom in one case – into makeshift recording studios.
There is something out there for everyone: While Demi Moore, with her trademark raspy voice, headlines an erotic podcast called
Dirty Diana, Jamie Lee Curtis and Matthew McConaughey read stories for kids.
Former first lady Michelle Obama talks about personal issues in a podcast called simply
WASHINGTON, Feb 18 Cooped up like many of us, movie stars, politicians and reality show types eager to hold onto their fans are turning to podcasts to get through the pandemic, converting their homes even a bathroom in one case into makeshift recording studios. There is something out.
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3D audio could be the next big podcast trend
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Companies looking to make a name in podcasting have mostly done so by spending lots of money on flashy names, big acquisitions, and valuable content libraries. But increasingly, the audio itself, and the recording techniques used to capture it, are becoming the selling point.
Today, iHeart Media announced that it’s investing in binaural audio, also known as 3D audio, which effectively places listeners in the room of a recording and makes them feel like it’s happening around them. Listening to a show in 3D audio sounds like you’re in the scene and hearing things exactly as you would in real life because the microphones are often shaped like a human head or a pair of ears. This means the sounds hit your ears as they would normally, a zooming car, for example, might be louder in your right ear and then move to your left as it passes, slowly fading from your right. (