Google can turn your Discover feed into an AI-generated podcast

Google is testing an experimental AI characteristic that creates a personalized podcast utilizing your Search and Discover provender history. The Daily Listen characteristic successful Google’s Search Labs is rolling retired to Android and iOS users successful the US according to 9to5Google, and useful likewise to the Audio Overviews characteristic for Google’s NotebookLM project.

Daily Listen references hunt information and Discover provender interactions to measure which news articles would beryllium of astir liking to the user, and past summarizes those stories and topics into a astir five-minute audio overview. It provides a matter transcript, alongside audio scrubber controls that let users to play, pause, mute, rewind, aliases skip to the adjacent story.

Search Labs users who opt-in to effort this research will find Daily Listen successful the personalized widget carousel underneath the Search barroom astatine the apical of the Google app. A “Related stories” tab will look astatine the bottommost of the audio subordinate that corresponds to contented wrong the overview that allows users to for illustration aliases disapprove of each communicative pinch a thumbs up/down, and research caller topics.

There’s presently nary connection connected when/if this characteristic will beryllium rolled retired to the wider public. Google’s AI Search Overviews were tested successful a akin measurement via Search Labs earlier launching to a wide assemblage past year, truthful it’s imaginable that Daily Listen whitethorn 1 time go a persistent characteristic — hopefully one that’s easier to opt out of than AI Overviews.