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“This new speaker is really awful
. Listening to the Economist I expect great Oxford English”
Tom07081965 via Apple Podcasts ·
Switzerland ·
10/27/24
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“This was good but now it’s AI reading is quite unlistenable.”
SandQA via Apple Podcasts ·
Belgium ·
10/11/24
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“Robotic voice and biased narrative. The way news and events are presented is one sided and a lot of info is not being presented / omitted.”
Olya Daniel via Apple Podcasts ·
Great Britain ·
09/26/24
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“I love the Econ, and a long time subscriber. But It’s a five minute pod; You couldn’t spring for a real person to read the news?”
Bfdtukbde via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
08/26/24
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“I pay a lot of money to have a subscription to the Economist. I like the news, but the podcasts drive me crazy. They repeat Word for Word the same story in different podcasts. It actually increases the time I have to invest to fast forward or delete and I’m always wondering what I missed because...”Read full review »
friar.dan via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
08/08/24
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“I am a subscriber, but there’s still advertising”
MaojerManjaro via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
07/20/24
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“It’s as if NPR noticed that other parts of the world were newsworthy, or if the BBC could figure out how to be concise. I don’t need my news providers to editorialize or emote. The criticisms that other listeners have about this informational podcast are bizarre. I get more information about the...”Read full review »
No DRM via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
07/19/24
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“I enjoy this podcast: Just what I like—short news clips and non partisan. However when they stitch the episode segments together the first syllable of each news item gets cut off, sometimes omitting crucial info. Please fix the audio to make this podcast one better sound file that doesn’t skip...”Read full review »
Sarita7981 via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
06/16/24
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“Please give us the transcripts of episodes. Free edition gives this service. Why??”
VESPA CRABRO via Apple Podcasts ·
France ·
05/22/24
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“Only listened to a single episode . There is zero expression which makes it very difficult to absorb any of the information. My only explanation that is that it must be a script that is read by AI. and if that’s not the case, they need to find somebody else to speak somebody who is authentic and...”Read full review »
Julie6498 via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
05/16/24
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“Not interested in hearing about the wars every single day. Please create a separate podcast for the topic.”
Gankzilla via Apple Podcasts ·
Canada ·
04/30/24
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“not a comfortable listen. I suspect AI or some other
intensive automation is involved in both content and presentation.”
mikedamay via Apple Podcasts ·
Great Britain ·
04/24/24
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“Why does it seem to be narrated by a cheap AI? No music edition whatsoever and plain tone of voice … is this really a premium subscribers only podcast? The Financial Times one is ten thousand times better and it’s free.”
Rodrigo bg92 via Apple Podcasts ·
Spain ·
04/23/24
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“Like listening to AI reading a novel. No presenter skills. Nor humans? Was very interested in a world news roundup but I just can’t listen to this.”
u4toieyhrkth via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
04/12/24
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“Episodes keep duplicating so it’s hard to track”
random_nickname1 via Apple Podcasts ·
Philippines ·
04/06/24
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“Nothing like the other shows and totally robotic and bland. Skims at the most superficial level of each story … I know it’s a headline show but really look around at your competition ..
love the Economist but guys PLEASE .. what’s going on with this ?”
sj 001 via Apple Podcasts ·
Great Britain ·
02/20/24
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“Can’t access content because I have pre iOS 17 iPhone- even as a subscriber. Paying for something I can't use. Disappointed with this change.”Read full review »
42az42 via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
02/16/24
“Like the information but can be very repetitive.”
Tcpfrank via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
02/11/24
“Good information presented with all the expression of an automaton. If it is not at least read by AI I would be very disappointed.”
83Lisson via Apple Podcasts ·
Australia ·
01/29/24
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“I understand that The News In Brief is published “three times daily,” and the stories cycle through each day, but there are “subscription edition” episodes and “for subscribers only” episodes in my Apple Podcasts feed. Their timestamps are similar, and the phrases in the headlines don’t indicate...”Read full review »
Mike in Potomac via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
01/22/24
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“The voice on this podcast makes it difficult to listen to.”
JFouch via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
01/06/24
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“I wish I could listen to this. But the voices sound like AI bots to me. It distracts me from hearing any of the content.”
AddictedToPodcastsAnyone? via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
01/04/24
“What’s the difference between these two? Why is there so much overlap in the stories between the two versions??”
oneilld95 via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
11/27/23
“I find the what seem to be the computer generated narration to be very irritating. The sound bit used between stories is tiresome in its repetition. Also, many stories are repeated in the podcasts. Do the story once and don’t repeat it in subsequent podcasts please!”
Hi tech ET via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
11/26/23
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“Same content seems to be posted again and again with slight variations in the news stories since subscribing to podcasts plus :/”
Devonmather via Apple Podcasts ·
Australia ·
11/05/23
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“Narrator should be a person, not a computer, it’s not natural and quite distracting”
RBap4 via Apple Podcasts ·
Great Britain ·
10/31/23
“And why does the broadcaster sound like IA is reading the news. Usually a very good news podcast but absolutely awful today!!”
deeds1974 via Apple Podcasts ·
Great Britain ·
10/30/23
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“Looks like the same daily world in brief episode is uploaded twice in the Apple podcast app under subscription. Thank you”
Gab0878 via Apple Podcasts ·
Australia ·
10/25/23
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“Why does The Economist have this podcast? I really don’t understand. If somehow the “presenter” isn’t a bot they’re experimenting with, who could their audience be? This podcast is abysmal.”
msnh08 via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
10/24/23
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“The AI/text to speech bot is obvious and grating. Uncanny valley. I can’t continue listening.”
Linzany via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
10/04/23
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“Used to be a favorite but new host seems to have trouble reporting the news”
MikeNY71 via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
09/12/23
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“Speaks distinctly with a nice flowing cadence. Best ever.”
Yewh Rang via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
07/30/23
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“Please don’t use AI for host. Thank you”
BibliophileG via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
07/23/23
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“This is incredibly off putting the female is trying so hard to enunciate each word ( with great difficulty) that it’s hard to listen to my favorite news briefs! She can often not pronounce simple words like Deutsche Bank calling it Deutchy … Bank there have been so many of these, that I’ve lost...”Read full review »
Saffysen via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
05/26/23
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مراجعه الاختصار via Apple Podcasts ·
United Arab Emirates ·
05/10/23
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“This is the final podcast I listen to. Succinct and interesting.”
Denise Cdx via Apple Podcasts ·
Canada ·
04/04/23
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“Xinjiang 新疆 (where many locals identify as East Turkistan 東突厥斯坦) is not Xizang 西藏 (traditionally and locally Tibet 圖博).
Also, despite their Sino-centric connotations, both 新疆 and 西藏 have been used officially for centuries from Qing dynasty.”
Evenisodd via Apple Podcasts ·
Taiwan ·
04/02/23
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“The news briefing itself is useful and always up in time to listen to on the way to work. However, the pronunciation is so bad as to almost make it unlistenable. It makes me think that it’s read either by a robot or someone with a rudimentary grasp of English. It’s jerky and does not flow and for...”Read full review »
wjbrady45 via Apple Podcasts ·
Great Britain ·
02/22/23
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“It’s great to have a quick summary of the most important current events. But I don’t understand the new 3x/day schedule. I never know which episode will have new news or not so I end up having to listen to the same thing twice, or skipping through episodes only once I realize I’ve already heard...”Read full review »
Sebdavid via Apple Podcasts ·
Canada ·
02/08/23
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“Speaker sounds like an AI-generated readout of news headlines; uninterested and robotic; very off-putting”
mknyccc via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
01/30/23
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“EDIT : The new host seems much better now.
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The female reader’s voice ressembles a lot what one can generate with an AI-generated text-to-speech service.”
amnazrz via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
11/03/22
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“Really good content, but the pronunciation of the narrator is really distracting for me. Simple words (escalate) pronounced wrong, becomes all I can think about throughout that sentence!”
nhh5 via Apple Podcasts ·
Great Britain ·
10/14/22
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“This is The Economist? Just added this podcast to my daily podcast feed. NPR and BBC are so much better.”
bamiller via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
10/05/22
“The female presenter with the English accent struggles to pronounce many words, names and places and over enunciates
eV-ERy
Sing-le
con-Son-anT.
It’s weird and very distracting whilst trying to listen to the news. Everything else about the podcast is fantastic.”
Jabawackiees via Apple Podcasts ·
Great Britain ·
09/27/22
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“Good, succinct world news source made even better now with the new host.”
justanewsjunkie via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
08/21/22
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“When the podcast first started, the content was fresh and informative every day. Since it has shifted to three times daily, much of the content is repeated throughout the day. I would much rather hear new news than hear the same news. Just my opinion…”
Svimmel via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
08/16/22
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