Live互動英語 01月號/2021 第237期

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The World of Podcasts
播客：聆聽世界的聲音

What’s as interesting as books, as exciting as TV, and as easy as listening to music? It’s podcasts, of course!

Podcasts are a series of audio recordings that discuss a topic or tell a story. These recordings, called episodes, can be any length and about anything. The first podcasts were made in the early 2000s, and the term podcasting, which combines the words iPod and broadcasting, was coined by reporter Ben Hammersley in 2004.

In the following years, advancements in technology have led to phones with greater storage space and mobile phone networks that can send large amounts of data at lightning speeds. As a result, the average length of podcasts has increased, with one study showing a 40 percent increase in podcast length since 2005.

Another key difference in today’s podcasts is they’re created to be, well, podcasts. They’re no longer just edited radio shows. And the radio shows that are made into podcasts are now done so specifically for a podcast audience—an audience that happens to be “going global.” In fact, 45 percent of new podcasts created in 2020 were in languages other than English.

什麼和書一樣有趣、和電視一樣刺激、且和聽音樂一樣容易？那當然是播客囉！

播客是一系列討論某個話題或說故事的錄音內容。這些錄音內容稱為「集」，可以是任何長度，且關於任何事物。最初的播客是在二十世紀初製作的，podcasting這個詞結合iPod和broadcasting這兩個字，是記者班．哈默斯利在二○○四年創造的。

在接下來的幾年，科技的發展使得手機有更大的儲存空間，以及可用極快的速度傳送大量數據的行動網路。因此，播客的平均長度增加了，一項研究顯示，自二○○五年以來，播客的長度增加了百分之四十。

今天播客的另一個主要差異是它們是被製作成播客。它們不再只是經過剪輯的廣播節目。而製作成播客的廣播節目現在是專門為播客聽眾而做——而聽眾碰巧「變得全球化」。事實上，在二○二○年製作的新播客中，有四成五是英語之外的語言。

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