Google is testing an experimental AI function that creates a personalised podcast utilizing your Search and Discover feed historical past. The Daily Listen function in Google’s Search Labs is rolling out to Android and iOS customers within the US based on 9to5Google, and works equally to the Audio Overviews function for Google’s NotebookLM venture.
Daily Listen references search knowledge and Discover feed interactions to evaluate which information articles could be of most curiosity to the consumer, after which summarizes these tales and subjects right into a roughly five-minute audio overview. It supplies a textual content transcript, alongside audio scrubber controls that enable customers to play, pause, mute, rewind, or skip to the subsequent story.
Search Labs customers who opt-in to do that experiment will discover Daily Listen within the personalised widget carousel beneath the Search bar on the prime of the Google app. A “Related tales” tab will seem on the backside of the audio participant that corresponds to content material throughout the overview that permits customers to love or disapprove of every story with a thumbs up/down, and discover new subjects.
There’s at present no phrase on when/if this function will probably be rolled out to the broader public. Google’s AI Search Overviews have been examined in an analogous manner through Search Labs earlier than launching to a normal viewers final 12 months, so it’s doable that Daily Listen might someday change into a persistent function — hopefully one which’s simpler to choose out of than AI Overviews.
