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Google’s new Search Labs experiment delivers daily audio news updates
Google LLC has reportedly launched a new Search Labs experiment called “Daily Listen” that creates a daily audio overview of news that users are interested in.
First reported by 9to5Google, Daily Listen is an artificial intelligence-powered audio experiment that appears in the Space carousel underneath the search bar at the top of the Google app on Android and iOS. Tapping on the Daily Listen card then takes users to a full-screen player where they can listen to a five-minute audio overview of stories and topics they follow.
Daily Listen reportedly shows a text transcript with cover art and gives users the ability to control playback, including play/pause, 10-second rewind, next story, playback speed and mute. The mute option is for users who would prefer to just read the transcript. At the bottom, users are also shown related stories and are given the option to search for more.
The new feature has reportedly started rolling out to users in the U.S. today, but there are not many reports of people being able to gain access to it as yet. According to Android Police, once live, users can enroll in the experiment by opening the Google app and clicking on the Labs icon at the top of the screen. Once they opt in, users will have to wait a day before they receive their first Daily Listen.
Though SiliconANGLE has yet to gain access to the new service, it sounds reminiscent of the technology used in Google’s NotebookLM that launched last year. NotebookLM is able to take in various data sources, links, videos and more and turn them into a podcast where two artificially generated voices discuss the topic at hand.
From reports, Daily Listen doesn’t have any customization features. It essentially creates a podcast based on what users follow or read, but the general idea is the same.
Although it lacks customization features, Daily Listen isn’t the first service of its type. AI-generated speech startup Eleven Labs Inc. launched GenFM, a product that does something similar, late last year. It can generate podcasts from PDFs, news articles, ebooks and more and is free to use for both iOS and Android users.
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