Google can flip your Uncover feed into an AI-generated podcast

Google is checking out an experimental AI function that creates a customized podcast the use of your Seek and Uncover feed historical past. The Day-to-day Pay attention function in Google’s Seek Labs is rolling out to Android and iOS customers in the USA consistent with 9to5Google, and works in a similar way to the Audio Overviews feature for Google’s NotebookLM project.

Day-to-day Pay attention references seek information and Uncover feed interactions to evaluate which information articles can be of maximum pastime to the consumer, after which summarizes the ones tales and subjects right into a more or less five-minute audio assessment. It supplies a textual content transcript, along audio scrubber controls that permit customers to play, pause, mute, rewind, or skip to the following tale.

Seek Labs customers who opt-in to check out this experiment will in finding Day-to-day Pay attention within the personalised widget carousel beneath the Seek bar on the best of the Google app. A “Comparable tales” tab will seem on the backside of the audio participant that corresponds to content material inside the assessment that permits customers to love or disapprove of each and every tale with a thumbs up/down, and discover new subjects.

There’s recently no phrase on when/if this option can be rolled out to the broader public. Google’s AI Search Overviews have been examined in a similar fashion by means of Seek Labs ahead of launching to a basic target audience remaining yr, so it’s conceivable that Day-to-day Pay attention might in the future transform a chronic function — with a bit of luck one that’s easier to opt out of than AI Overviews.