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

As a substitute of digging by way 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 seems like a conversational podcast with two hosts.

It is not superb to your fundamental search queries like discovering out when Father’s Day is, but it surely’s useful if you’d like an in-depth and hands-free response to the historical past and significance of Flag Day. The Audio Overviews possibility 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 partaking reply. You may also alter the amount and playback velocity 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 is not the primary time Google has provided its Audio Overviews device, but it surely 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 deal with a selected subject. To check out the Audio Overviews as a part of Google Search, it’s important to decide into the Google Labs characteristic on its website.