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

Google is testing an experimental AI function that creates a personalised podcast utilizing your Search and Uncover feed historical past. The Each day Pay attention function in Google’s Search Labs is rolling out to Android and iOS customers within the US in response to 9to5Google, and works equally to the Audio Overviews function for Google’s NotebookLM mission.

Each day Pay attention references search information and Uncover feed interactions to evaluate which information articles can be of most curiosity to the consumer, after which summarizes these tales and matters right into a roughly five-minute audio overview. It supplies a textual content transcript, alongside audio scrubber controls that permit customers to play, pause, mute, rewind, or skip to the following story.

Search Labs customers who opt-in to do that experiment will discover Each day Pay attention within the personalised widget carousel beneath the Search bar on the prime of the Google app. A “Associated tales” tab will seem on the backside of the audio participant that corresponds to content material throughout the overview that enables customers to love or disapprove of every story with a thumbs up/down, and discover new matters.

There’s at present no phrase on when/if this function can be rolled out to the broader public. Google’s AI Search Overviews have been examined in an identical approach by way of Search Labs earlier than launching to a basic viewers final yr, so it’s doable that Each day Pay attention could someday turn into a persistent function — hopefully one which’s simpler to choose out of than AI Overviews.