2025-01-09 10:56:00
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Google is capturing the items and areas that most interest you and turning them into AI-generated podcasts for your listening pleasure. Now rolling out to iOS and Android users, a new experimental feature called Daily Listen will feature daily podcasts hosted by two AI bots.
How Daily Listen works
To generate the content, Google will use subjects that you search for as well as news stories that appear in your Discover feed.
Summarizing your top topics through AI, each daily podcast will run for about five minutes, according to The Verge. The audio will provide scrubber controls to let you play, pause, mute, go back, or jump ahead to the next story. A text transcript will also appear so you can read the summaries as well.
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“Hey there, and welcome to your Daily Listen, a new experimental audio show by Google,” one of the AI hosts announces in a trailer for the new podcast. “We’re your hosts, powered by AI and prepared to deliver a quick update each day exclusively for you. It’s personalized to your interests, so we’ll cover the topics you follow and the things you search often. The show features info from across the web and will include related stories so you can easily keep exploring.”
A Google Labs experiment
The Daily Listen is the search giant’s latest experimental feature available through Google Labs, the company’s AI-focused technology testing ground. And if an AI-generated podcast sounds familiar, that’s because Google’s NotebookLM offers a similar option in which AI-based bots co-host a podcast based on your notes and research.
In fact, the same two AI hosts heard in NotebookLM are just as chatty in the Daily Listen.
How to access
The feature officially kicked off Thursday, though you may not have access to it just yet. However, I did find it on my iPhone and on an Android phone I also use.
To check, open the Google app fo iOS or Android or browse to the Google website on an iPhone or Android device. Tap the test tube icon at the top, select the card for Daily Listen, and then turn on the switch for the podcast to appear in the Google app starting tomorrow. Each day you launch the Google app, you’ll find a new podcast based on your recent searches and the latest stories in your Discover feed.
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For now, the Daily Listen is available only in the Google app, only in English, and only in the US. Since the podcasts are generated using AI, Google cautions that inaccuracies and audio glitches may occur. As the feature is in an early test phase, the company also invites people to share feedback so that it can fine-tune the quality and performance.
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