Spotify will allow users to create their own podcast episodes via text commands with its new AI-supported Personal Podcasts feature. The new feature was among the podcast innovations announced at Spotify’s Investor Day 2026 event. How will the Spotify Personal Podcasts feature work? Spotify is introducing a new feature on the podcast side that does not limit the listening experience to ready-made content consumption only.
The experience, called Personal Podcasts, will create short, special and personalized audio episodes based on user-typed commands. Users will be able to prepare these sections in the format of daily information, weekly summary or short narrative on a specific topic. The feature will work through the Create flow in Spotify. The user will simply type what they want to listen to and Spotify will generate a personalized audio track based on that command.
The system will leverage the user’s general knowledge base along with their Spotify taste profile. The created episodes will be specially saved in the user’s library and can only be listened to by the relevant user. Examples provided by Spotify include daily city updates, local concert recommendations related to the user’s favorite artists, and short lectures such as explain the economy in five minutes. Users will not just type text commands; Links, PDFs and additional text can also be added to the system as context.
In addition, commands can be edited later and audio selection can be made for the created podcast. Personal Podcasts will also offer scheduling support for regular content production. Users will be able to create daily or weekly sections. Thus, new audio content can be prepared at regular intervals without typing commands over and over again for the same topic. Spotify announced that the feature will be rolled out to eligible Premium users in the US next month.
Users will be given a certain number of credits per month and will be given the option to purchase additional credits. Before this announcement, Spotify had also released a beta tool that enabled personal podcast content to be created with external artificial intelligence tools and saved to the Spotify library. This tool allows users working with desktop agents such as OpenClaw, Claude Code and OpenAI Codex to listen to their audio content on Spotify.
With the new step, the same logic will be moved directly into the Spotify application. The company also announced the artificial intelligence-supported question-answer feature for podcast episodes with Personal Podcasts. Premium mobile users will be able to ask Spotify questions about the podcast they listen to or watch. The system will be able to explain the concepts mentioned in the section, suggest relevant content, and provide additional information without removing the user from the application.
This feature has been opened to Premium mobile users in the USA, Sweden and Ireland. Spotify’s innovations on the podcast side are not limited to listeners only. The company also announced a new subscription tool called Memberships for content creators. With this system, selected content producers will be able to offer special content and experiences to their most loyal listeners. Spotify also launched its Creator Sponsorships tool for creators and publishers within the Spotify Partner Program.
Spotify also introduced a standalone desktop app called Studio by Spotify Labs. With the user’s permission, this application will be able to prepare personalized audio content by using personal applications or services on the web browser and computer. The application will be able to schedule and run certain workflows if allowed.
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