Overview
- Spotify announced the new 'Talk to Spotify' beta on Tuesday, rolling the feature into the Home and Now Playing views on iOS and Android for eligible Premium users in the U.S., Ireland and Sweden.
- The assistant accepts voice or text prompts and supports back‑and‑forth conversation to choose music, refine playlists, save songs, queue tracks, and follow artists without leaving the app.
- It can answer contextual questions about songs, albums, podcasts and audiobooks, and it can reference users’ playlists, favorites, repeat listens and listening history to give personalized responses.
- Spotify confirmed to reporters that the feature routes tasks across a hybrid AI stack made up of its own systems and models from multiple external providers, and the company warns the beta may produce imperfect answers as it collects feedback.
- The launch builds on Spotify’s prior AI tools such as AI DJ and AI Playlist and arrives as the company pursues wider AI applications and licensing deals with major labels, which could shape how these features expand and handle rights and accuracy concerns.