Google Search makes use of AI-generated podcast hosts to reply your questions

As an alternative of digging by means of all the highest search outcomes, now you can ask Google Search to offer you a complete AI-generated abstract with its Audio Overviews characteristic. The AI characteristic makes use of Google Gemini fashions to create a brief audio clip that feels like a conversational podcast with two hosts.

It isn’t splendid in your primary search queries like discovering out when Father’s Day is, however it’s useful in order for you an in-depth and hands-free response to the historical past and significance of Flag Day. The Audio Overviews choice pulls from the entrance web page Google Search outcomes and compiles them into an audio abstract the place two voices bounce off one another for a extra participating reply. It’s also possible to regulate the amount and playback pace between 0.25x and 2x. Audio Overviews even contains the webpages it pulls the data from, letting you proceed down the Google Search rabbit gap.

It isn’t the primary time Google has provided its Audio Overviews software, however it was beforehand reserved for its NotebookLM tool. Google expanded on this characteristic by making Audio Overviews inside NotebookLM extra interactive, permitting you to ask the AI hosts questions in real-time, and added a “Deep Dive” choice to get the AI to concentrate on a selected subject. To check out the Audio Overviews as a part of Google Search, it’s a must to decide into the Google Labs characteristic on its website.