- Google is testing the audio descriptions of Notebooklm functions in the search
- The function will offer short and AU audio summaries for certain consultations.
- The function uses Gemini models to deliver explanations in the podcast style with links by clicking.
I have been a fan of the audio description function in the Google notebook since I first experienced it last year. Now, it is arriving at Google Search, currently only as a test in the laboratories, but it brings a more bite of the “podcasts” generated by the AI that I like in Notebooklm.
Once you have opted for laboratories, you will begin to see a small warning in some search results pages saying: “generate a general audio description.” Touch that, wait between 30 and 40 seconds, and a compact audio clip of about five minutes comes out, sometimes less, that explains what he sought in the form of two voices generated by AI who have an discussion. Nor too deep, but either of a prayer. Think of a midpoint between “Wikipedia Rabbit Hole” and “I only read the headline.”
While listening, the audio player remains docked on its results page, showing links click on the sources from which the AI took out. You can continue navigating, take advantage of related articles or simply listen and absorb. If you like what you hear, you can give it a thumb up. If it is atrociously incorrect, the thumb down is also there.
Although it is similar to what Notebooklm does with its audio descriptions, the search version has an important difference. Notebooklm only uses documents that you load, YouTube videos and websites you specifically link. The Google Search version extracts from public web content. That can be good or bad, depending on what you are looking for. Something direct and scientific could be fine, but a discussion about the best film could get a different audio track every time you look. Here is an example that I recorded a clip.
Podcast AI searches
It is not perfect, and although the voices are good, they are still voices of AI. You can also notice phrases to rest directly from someone’s Reddit publication. But it can be heard and, as Google points out, hands -free, with the option of adjusting the speed of speakers and links there to provide more context. It can accelerate or slow it down, omit or follow the links as it advances. It is an improved search with AI, not a new audiobook.
For now, not all search will offer to create a general audio description. You also have to be in the United States and register in laboratories at this time. But, I hope you have a general release very soon. Then you can ask how lithium -ion batteries work or why Roman concrete is still standing, and get a good discussion of digital characters.
Think about it as video summaries and image carousels brought new dimensions to how we took online information. Audio descriptions are another aspect of that and a victory for auditory students or people with visual disabilities, with openai and perplexity and a dozen search engines for the biting in their heels, Google needs any trick that can gather to highlight and a podcast of ia as the response to a serca is definitely a unique way, at least for now.
