BotTalk
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The facts
Each one read from BotTalk's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- API
- The documentation says API projects receive a unique API key that can be used to create, retrieve, update, and delete articles.checked 13 Oct 2026
- API access
- Yeschecked 21 Sep 2026
- Article audio
- A single script tag or API integration can detect new articles from a CMS or RSS feed and generate narrated audio with an on-page player.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Audio ads
- Publishers can configure how often pre-stream ads play and choose ad audio durations of 15, 20, or 30 seconds.checked 13 Oct 2026
- Automatic narration
- A script tag lets BotTalk detect new articles from a CMS or RSS feed and create narrated audio with an on-page player and podcast feed.checked 13 Oct 2026
- Availability
- The terms state a 99.5% monthly availability commitment, excluding agreed maintenance windows and downtime outside the provider’s responsibility.checked 13 Oct 2026
- Commercial use
- Yeschecked 21 Sep 2026
- Consent integration
- BotTalk’s Web Player guide names consentmanager as a cookie-consent partner and says its vendor ID can be added through the consent settings.checked 13 Oct 2026
- Failover
- BotTalk says it automatically reroutes between five voice engines when a provider fails or changes pricing.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- BotTalk supports a script tag or API integration, CMS and RSS detection, paywall handling, and IAB-listed audio advertising.checked 13 Oct 2026
- Intended customers
- BotTalk says it is built for publishers and newsrooms, and reports serving 30 European publishers and 20 million monthly listeners.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Languages and accents
- BotTalk says it supports 15 European accents and routes languages to the voice engine it considers best suited.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Mobile playback
- The Native Web Player guide says readers can listen on Android and iOS, including in the background or with the screen off.checked 13 Oct 2026
- Monetization
- The platform offers IAB-listed audio ad inventory and subscriber-aware playback through paywall integration.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Paywall limit
- The paywall feature is premium and works only with the BotTalk Web Player.checked 13 Oct 2026
- Podcast distribution limit
- BotTalk creates and hosts an RSS feed, but the feed must be connected once to podcast directories before episodes can flow to services such as Apple Podcasts and Spotify.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Podcast Studio
- Podcast Studio lets a newsroom select stories, summarize them, approve versions, choose a voice and music, and publish branded daily, weekly, or topic editions.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Pricing model
- BotTalk says it charges a fixed monthly publisher licence plus pass-through provider tokens; it does not publish exact prices on the page opened.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- BotTalk describes itself as an audio control layer and infrastructure-as-a-service for publishers and newsrooms.checked 12 Oct 2026
The company
- Founded
- 2018checked 28 Sep 2026
- Headquarters
- Hamburg, Germanychecked 28 Sep 2026
Money
- Free plan
- Nochecked 21 Sep 2026
- Free test limits
- The terms describe a free test phase covering 10 articles of up to 10,000 characters each, ending automatically two months after account activation.checked 13 Oct 2026
Where it runs
- Platforms
- web,apichecked 21 Sep 2026
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