Question 1

What is Voice Herald?

Accepted Answer

Voice Herald is an AI-powered news portal that aggregates articles, clusters them into stories, and surfaces trending topics. It provides a newspaper-style homepage, topic hubs, a knowledge graph, and RSS feeds.

Question 2

How are topics and stories chosen?

Accepted Answer

Topics are detected from article content and organized into hubs. Stories are AI-generated clusters of 3 or more related articles. Trend scores and relationships between topics are computed from recent coverage.

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