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Are your fingers sore from typing? We weren't really meant to communicate via tappity-tap, but through voice. So much is lost when people communicate by typing, so it's nice to see Swell giving people their voice back. We see this app being used in wellness spheres, and as a means to have conversations on hot topics, but in a more civil manner. We've noticed that people tend to behave a bit better when they are speaking in their own voice. Download at https://www.swell.life.

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Live Audio Formats Will Continue to Be Dominated by Creators, Says Swell CEO

NEWS 9 LIVE - Live audio started as a pandemic fad, but it has a lot of potential as a new media platform for content creators, akin to YouTube, says Swell CEO Sudha K Varadarajan. However, he believes that Live Audio will have less relevance as a social platform. The social audio segment then started to witness the need for asynchronous elements. This urged Live players to implement features to record the conversations so that users don't miss out. Standalone asynchronous social audio players also started making their way into the ecosystem. Varadarajan says that short format audio, like Swell's, is designed for the shorter, at users' convenience and consumption. He believes that it has a better potential to help people have a better social experience using audio.

by Nandini Yadav
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Audio-based App Swell Launches New UX Design

BUSINESSWIRE - Audio-based social app Swell has launched Swell 3.0, on both iOS and Android. Led by entrepreneurial husband-and-wife team Sudha Varadarajan and Arish Ali, Swell launched at SXSW last year providing users a unique space for voice-only conversations. The redesign include a more user-friendly interface to speak and listen, gamified look, a "conversation browsing,” improved browse features, and allowance of the user to listen to one conversation while exploring another.

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Asynchronous Voice-based Social Platform Swell Launches 3.0 Version Upgrade

PR NEWSWIRE - Swell, the first asynchronous voice-based social platform launched in India mid-last year, has rolled out its 3.0 version upgrade. It uses AI-based automatic text snippets, inline image rendering, Swell tiles, and more to create a "conversation browsing" experience. Users can explore an audio conversation in a non-linear fashion, quickly jumping to portions and speakers of interest to them.

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Social Audio Platform Swell Launches Student Ambassador Programme

TIMES OF INDIA - Swell has launched a nationwide student ambassador programme, which aims at giving voice to the GenZ community by helping them drive conversations around topics like student life, self-care, pop culture, social media, photography, mental health, relationships and others.

by Sindhu Hariharan
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What Is Clubhouse, and Should You Be on It?

AARP - Voice is becoming the next social network of choice for a lot of people, and live audio platforms - Clubhouse is the best known - are generating enormous buzz. Twitter recently launched a Clubhouse clone called Twitter Spaces. Facebook and Instagram, LinkedIn and Spotify are actively exploring their own audio-based social experiences, presumably to capitalize on Clubhouse's early success. LinkedIn confirmed that it is doing some early tests to create an audio experience connected to your professional identity. Members inside Clubhouse create rooms and clubs, generally around certain topics of interest. People can come and go as they please. After dropping into a room, they can hit a button to leave quietly. Those who stick around can listen or tap to raise their hand to contribute to the conversation, provided the host or moderator, who controls the room, welcomes them to the virtual stage and lets them speak. But not everyone is comfortable being in the moment. A San Francisco startup called Swell recently launched a voice alternative that's not live. On Swell, users can record and post up to five minutes of audio on various topics. Other people can respond with their own voice in their own time.

by Edward C. Baig
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Meet Swell, a Voice-Based Social Platform

FIRST POST - A San Francisco startup called Swell, by co-founders Sudha K Varadarajan and Arish Ali, is a new voice-based social platform which seems like a blend of WhatsApp voice notes, Instagram feeds, and Clubhouse. Swell allows users to post standalone (up to five minutes long) audio clips with an accompanying image and links that show up on a feed. Other users can browse, listen and leave their own audio responses in their own time.

by Nandini Yadav
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Swell: An Asynchronous Social Audio Platform for Meaningful Discussions

HINDUSTAN TIMES - June 17 - Swell is the first asynchronous social audio platform in India. This is different from ephemeral voice-based apps like Clubhouse because it offers users the ability to check their app whenever they want, instead of at a scheduled time. Users on Swell can upload voice posts of up to five minutes in length, along with links and images. The service also does not have any ads. It says it will generate revenue from premium tools and Swellcasts (a short podcast or a structured audio conversation). It plans to deal with the competition as well as for monetization.

by David Delima
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Swell Launches Its App for Asynchronous Voice Conversations

TECH CRUNCH - You might think that Clubhouse is the final word on audio-centric social networks, but a San Francisco startup called Swell is launching its own iOS and Android app focused on voice conversations. While conversations on Clubhouse all happen in real time, Swell is focused on asynchronous comments. In other words, users post a standalone audio clip that can be up to five minutes in length, then other users can browse, listen and leave their own audio responses in their own time. Swell is led by husband-and-wife team Sudha Varadarajan and Arish Ali, who previously founded e-commerce company Skava and sold it to Infosys.

by Anthony Ha
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