Alba News
The daily news capsule, with the method in plain sight.
Alba Play · AI-made deep dives
Understanding the world, without inherited filters.
Deep dives into what is actually happening —politics, economics, technology and society— with the method in the open and the sources in plain sight. Whatever couldn't be confirmed gets said out loud.
It's an attempt, and we treat it as one.
Coming soon to the
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All audio is in Spanish. Alba News, the daily capsule, is free today and always. iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and CarPlay.
New this week
What came out this week.
Releases from the last seven days, read from the same catalogue the app sees. All audio is in Spanish. The daily Alba News capsule doesn't appear here: it has its place among the channels.
The channels
Eight channels, one method.
The daily capsule plus one channel for every day of the week. All of them follow the same rules; what changes is the horizon and the voice. Three are recorded in a human voice, and they're marked that way here and in the app. All audio is in Spanish.
En Sintonía (In Tune)
Personal and relational wellbeing: families, couples, grief, trauma.
Curated by Dionicio Galarza and Mayra Chávez, mental health specialists.
Alba Wellness Skills
Skills you practise: emotional regulation, somatic techniques, interpersonal effectiveness. Explained step by step.
Alba Journal Club
Psychology, psychiatry, psychotherapy and neuroscience, for specialists and open to anyone with an interest.
Curated by Dionicio Galarza.
El Algoritmo (The Algorithm)
What the world is watching, understood rather than merely consumed.
Alba Mindful
Guided practices: this one isn't for listening, it's for doing.
La Trama (The Thread)
The flagship channel: the real state of the world, in 35–45 minute deep dives.
Biblioteca Alba (The Alba Library)
A classic public-domain short story, in full, read by Dionicio Galarza. 15 to 20 minutes.
The bet
A medium with mental health as its purpose.
Alba Play is the media arm of a company that wants to contribute to mental health. The bet is twofold: that understanding the social, political, technological and economic complexities of the world —with the AI-made deep dive as a method, not as decoration— allows a fresh perspective, free of inherited bias, as long as an auditable method keeps it disciplined; and that a mind that grows —critical thinking, creative thinking, curiosity— is mental health too.
This app should help people understand the social, political, technological and economic complexities of the world. An AI-made deep dive into the latest news, relevant facts, trends, world affairs and so on offers the possibility of a fresh, unbiased perspective on the world. That last part is Alba Play's added value, and it applies to every channel. It is an attempt to put into practice what thinkers, technology founders and some intellectuals have proposed when they suggest that AI can be a means of getting closer to what is true.
Three ideas, and none of them is filler: understanding complexity instead of consuming headlines; the AI deep dive as a method, not as technological decoration; and the fresh perspective as the added value, not as a slogan.
We say it without grandeur: it's an attempt. Nobody has yet shown that AI is any good at clarifying what is true. Alba Play is that idea being tested, in public, with the work on display.
How we do it
We don't promise objectivity. We promise method.
Saying "unbiased" and leaving it there is an empty promise, and a false one. The fresh perspective is an aspiration disciplined by five rules — and all five can be audited against any episode.
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Multiple sources, from different latitudes and leanings
Never a single source or a single media ecosystem. We deliberately look for the source that contradicts the first one.
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The verified fact, kept apart from the narrative
We say who holds each version and what evidence backs it. What happened and what is said about what happened are not the same thing.
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Uncertainty gets declared
Whatever couldn't be confirmed is said on air. Honest uncertainty is part of the product, not a flaw to hide.
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Figures always come with a source
And when sources disagree with each other, we say so and give the full range.
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Never interpretation presented as fact
If the evidence falls short, the conclusion is "still open". And there it stays.
These five rules are already mandatory in production. They are here so you can hold us to them: credibility isn't declared, it accumulates. When we get something wrong, the correction gets published as fast as the error did.
Before launch
Out now
Alba Play isn't on the App Store yet.
And we're not going to tell you it is until it is. It's the same rule we apply on air: never announce a download, a feature or an address that isn't live.
Leave us your email and we'll write to you the day the app is visible in the store. Once, with no newsletter and no tracking. If you're press or looking to collaborate, tell us right here.
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- StudioMonterrey, Mexico
- Part ofAlba Digital · Digital Dawn Studios
Alba Play is on the App Store.
The daily capsule is free and asks for no account. Get it from the store and, if something is unclear or isn't working, tell us right here.
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Transparency
Every voice is declared. The AI ones and the human ones.
Alba Play has two AI voices and two human voices, and all four get named. The AI ones declare themselves inside the audio, at the opening and close of every piece. The human ones carry a first and last name, and are marked as such in the app.
A platform arguing that AI can help clarify what is true cannot begin by hiding that it uses AI. Nor can it dress up as human something that isn't — or the other way round. So we say it before you ask.
AI voice
Ixchel Ávalos
Host generated by artificial intelligence
Exclusive to Alba News. The voice is AI. The information isn't.
AI voice
Renata Elizondo
Host generated by artificial intelligence
Everything else produced with AI —En Sintonía, Alba Journal Club, El Algoritmo and La Trama— plus the openings and closings of the human-voice channels.
Human voice
Dionicio Galarza and Mayra Chávez
Mental health specialists
They record Alba Wellness Skills and Alba Mindful. Dionicio reads the stories on Biblioteca Alba.
"We never present an AI voice as human, or a human one as AI."
What that means, concretely
- The AI voice is declared inside the audio, on every episode — not in fine print at the bottom of a page.
- On the human-voice channels both things live in the same piece. The opening is spoken by an AI voice that says so and introduces the narrator; the body is recorded by a person.
- Neither Ixchel nor Renata imitates anyone. No synthetic voice on Alba Play is cloned from a real person.
- The voice is AI. The information isn't. The reporting behind it comes from the work of real news organisations, and it's cited story by story.
- Alba Play informs, explains and accompanies. None of its channels is a substitute for therapy, diagnosis or professional advice of any kind.