You already have your daily news briefing podcasts, but Google is taking things a step further by providing personalized AI-generated audio recaps of news based on your Search data.
On Wednesday, Google announced Daily Listen, an experiment in its AI-testing ground Search Labs. Daily Listen lives at the top of the homepage in the Google app on Android and iOS. By clicking on the feature, you get a 5-minute or less audio recap of topics you’re interested in, generated by AI.
If you’re familiar with Google’s Notebook LM tool that generates a customized podcast from an initial text prompt, Daily Listen is similar to this, except the “prompt” is data collected from Search and Discover, a news feed curated by topics you follow in the Google app. So it’s a combination of your browsing history and search interests manually set by the user.
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Clicking into Daily Listen starts the mini podcast episode and provides a real-time transcript …