Wave Expands Audio Mode 'Deudpom' With Audiobooks and ASMR for Chuseok Travel
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Wave said it has added audiobooks and nature sound content to its audio mode, 'Deudpom.'
The additional audiobook provider is Dasan Books, and the lineup includes "Suspicious Secondhand Store," "Life Is a Moment," "The Bowl of the Rich," and "Wellsingking."
Wave said it is expanding audio description coverage and making audiobooks, ASMR, and audio dramas available by situation for Chuseok homecoming and return travel.
[IT Daily] According to reports, while the OTT industry is targeting non-viewing time during the Chuseok homecoming rush, Wave said it has added audiobooks and nature sound content to its audio mode, 'Deudpom.' The goal is to give users something to listen to when it is difficult to watch a screen during long-distance travel.
Deudpom is a service launched in July, and until now it has offered a feature for listening to video audio and a feature for using audio-only content. The focus of this update is not a new playback function, but an expansion of the range of audio content available.
The newly added audiobook provider is Dasan Books. The Dasan Books audiobooks include Michio Shusuke's "Suspicious Secondhand Store," Kim Sung-kyun's "Life Is a Moment," Izumi Masato's "The Bowl of the Rich," and Kelly Choi's "Wellsingking." The OJAE classics have also been expanded, allowing users to listen to "The Sorrows of Young Werther," "Tao Te Ching," and "The Analects."
Wave has also prepared books that run for several hours. The intention is to make it possible to listen to a single work continuously even during long-distance travel.
Wave has broadened its lineup of content suited to listening while traveling or during short breaks. It has prepared content for short breaks, launched a new ASMR category, and produced a YouTube channel called 'Sori Baguni' to provide natural sounds. Examples of the sounds offered include rain, insects in the grass, and a campfire. Audiobooks are meant for travel time, while ASMR is positioned as content that can be selected for brief sleep on trains or express buses. Deudpom's offerings also include radio, music, live news, variety shows, talk shows, children's songs, and language-learning content.
However, if only the audio from a video is played, it is not possible to understand all of a program's content without the screen. In response, Wave is expanding the scope of audio descriptions for original content and broadcast programs. The audio description feature conveys visual information from scenes through sound. Its purpose is to support accessibility for people with visual impairments, and it also helps users understand content in travel environments where watching a screen is difficult.
This update is an attempt to expand user touchpoints beyond drama and variety-show viewing time to listening time during travel and breaks. However, the actual contribution of audiobooks and ASMR to usage time has not been confirmed. Their contribution to paid subscriptions has also not been confirmed.
With long travel times for people heading home for Chuseok or returning afterward in mind, Wave has diversified and expanded the content that users may prefer, and the range it offers includes audiobooks, ASMR, and audio dramas, which can be selected and listened to according to the situation, a Wave official said.
Source: IT DAILY · Lee Jae-young
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