How Google Is Using AI to Turn Your Daily News Scroll into a Personalized Podcast

Google wants you to property play connected an AI-created podcast alternatively of scrolling for your regular news.

The tech elephantine tin now return what it knows of your interests done your Search and Discover histories and create a 5-minute podcast tailored conscionable for you that summarizes news stories of the time that you mightiness beryllium willing in.

Related: I Tried Making an AI-Hosted Podcast pinch Google's NotebookLM. It Worked Surprisingly Well.

Google began testing the personalized, AI-created podcasts, called "Daily Listen," done Search Labs, the programme that allows users to acquisition early-stage experiments, reports 9to5Google. The caller research began rolling retired connected Wednesday to Android and iOS users successful the U.S.

The ground of Daily Listen is Google Search information and interactions that users person had pinch contented connected their Google Discover feeds. Using that data, the AI figures retired which news articles a personification would want to perceive about, and summarizes those stories into an audio overview.

Daily Listen gives users a matter transcript of the 5-minute podcast and power to pause, mute, rewind, aliases skip to the pursuing story, per The Verge.

Google told TechCrunch that Daily Listen is meant to thief users enactment updated connected topics they attraction about.

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Users pinch entree to Daily Listen will spot the conception popular up connected their location surface connected the Google app. Tapping the Daily Listen paper nether Search will motorboat the podcast.

The podcast conception is akin to Google NotebookLM's audio overviews, which are AI-hosted podcasts that move textbooks, study notes, and mostly immoderate postulation of sources into a podcast chat betwixt 2 AI hosts.

We tested NotebookLM and were amazed by really good it worked. The extremity consequence sounded for illustration a podcast betwixt 2 quality beings, pinch cleanable pacing, tone, and delivery. It was astir intolerable to show that the podcast was narrated by AI.

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