As we allow new mediums for our media, Mark Henn states that we are experiencing digital audio's awkward adolescent phase. He quickly goes into what podcasts can be, and that the grounds for what digital audio can do is ever-expanding. The article takes a shift that what Henn is currently applying to help advance Google and how they use the audio web, and how they plan to make it as favored as text web. As they keep striving to transcribe all of their text news the goal is that "if you ask Google to play the news, we’ll create a playlist that keeps you up to date with the most important stories in your world". The future of audio news is opening doors to many types of artists and the best way to ensure a future is to keep supporting content creators and help create more tools to help feed this ever-growing ecosystem.
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