A Vancouver radio station is using AI on the air

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If you’re listening to the radio late at night, that might not be a human voice introducing songs.

by Brendan Kergin

Vancouver Is Awesome

August 14, 2024

A Vancouver radio station is using AI on the air.Roger W Downes Photography/Moment/Getty Images

While most radio DJs on the air are humans, one recent voice on the air is computer code.

Sonic, broadcasting on 104.9 FM, is a Rogers Communications station based in Vancouver; while it has humans on air through most of the daytime hours, late at night, a new voice can be heard in between songs and ads. It calls itself Sonic AI.

A voice on the radio

A spokesperson with Rogers Sports and Media confirms the corporation has been working with a company called Futuri since early 2023 and “beta testing their Radio GPT technology.”

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6 COMMENTS

  1. 1979…the good old days. My first job in radio was the CJDC graveyard shift. As the guy in Ferris Bueller said, “I weep for the future.”

  2. “Weep in years to come.” If the device can pronounce few and two properly and expunge impact and issue from its vocabulary, there might be hope.

  3. Really, how much different is this from simulating or taped show where a techie sits pushing buttons, ie: 95.7 cruze in edmonton…

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