How Google Is Using Ai To Turn Your Daily News Scroll Into A Personalized Podcast

Google wants you to spot 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 nan clip that you mightiness beryllium consenting in.

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

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

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

Daily Listen gives users a matter transcript of nan 5-minute podcast and powerfulness to pause, mute, rewind, aliases skip to nan 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 nan conception celebrated up connected their location aboveground connected nan Google app. Tapping nan Daily Listen insubstantial nether Search will motorboat nan 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 bully it worked. The extremity consequence sounded for illustration a podcast betwixt 2 value beings, pinch cleanable pacing, tone, and delivery. It was astir intolerable to show that nan podcast was narrated by AI.

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