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

As an alternative of digging by 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 preferrred to your fundamental search queries like discovering out when Father’s Day is, nevertheless it’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 can even regulate the amount and playback velocity between 0.25x and 2x. Audio Overviews even consists of 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 device, nevertheless 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 choose into the Google Labs characteristic on its website.