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- Google has added an experimental feature to Discover that summarizes the days stories as a podcast
- Daily Listen provides a five-minute audio summary of the day’s most relevant stories, based on your interests and previous activity
- The feature is part of Google Labs’ experimental program
Google has released an experimental feature that allows users to listen to their Discover feed, instead of reading it.
Released via Google Labs, the new Daily Listen feature summarizes your news feed based on your interests, producing a short podcast covering the day’s top stories and relevant headlines.
The new feature includes stories based on your previous interactions with the Discover feed, which is itself personalized based on user data and web searches.
To activate daily listening, users must first register in the Google Labs program, which offers access to experimental and tested functions before they are widely available.
9to5Google reports that generative AI is being used to compile Daily Listen, and notes that Daily Listen was made available in the US on January 8. With little in the way of an official announcement from Google, there is no guessing if or when this experimental feature will come. other territories.
For US users, Daily Listening can be enabled by joining the Google Labs program. Google Labs can be accessed from the top left of the Google app on both Android and iOS.
Once activated, Daily Listening appears as a widget at the top of the Discover feed. Each “episode” of the podcast is about five minutes long. PhoneArena reports that the first Daily Listen appears a day or so after enrolling in the Google Labs program.
In addition to an audio summary, Daily Listening offers a scrolling transcript to read with the typical pause, rewind, and fast forward controls.
As Android Central highlights, Daily Listen is similar in some ways to the Audio Overview feature found in Google’s AI-powered online note-taking tool, NotebookLM.
Audio Overview was recently promoted to full feature status, losing its experimental tag and becoming fully integrated into NotebookLM. Daily Listen is still too new to predict if it will be well integrated into Discover.
That said, Google seems to be pushing for an increasingly audio-based relationship with our devices through features like Gemini Live, so I wouldn’t be surprised if Daily Listen is here to stay.
