- Google has added an experimental feature to Discover that summarizes the day’s stories in podcast form
- 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 the Google Labs experimental program.
Google has launched an experimental feature that allows users to listen to their Discover feed, instead of reading it.
Launched through Google Labs, the new Daily Listen feature summarizes your news based on your interests and produces 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 in turn is personalized based on user data and web searches.
To enable Daily Listen, users must first enroll in the Google Labs program, which offers access to experimental and testing features before they become widely available.
9to5Google reports that generative AI is used to compile Daily Listen and notes that Daily Listen became available in the US on January 8. With little official announcement from Google, there’s no telling if or when this experimental feature will arrive. to other territories.
For US users, Daily Listen can be activated by joining the Google Labs program. Google Labs can be accessed from the top left of the Google app on Android or iOS.
Once enabled, Daily Listen appears as a widget at the top of the Discover feed. Each ‘episode’ of the podcast is approximately five minutes long. PhoneArena reports that the first daily listen appears about a day after enrolling in the Google Labs program.
In addition to an audio summary, Daily Listen offers a scrollable transcript to read along 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 being fully integrated into NotebookLM. Daily Listen is still too new to predict whether it will integrate properly 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 won’t be surprised if Daily Listen is here to stay.
