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Title: Google Search uses AI-generated podcast hosts to answer your questions

Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2025 16:18:47 +0000
Link: https://www.engadget.com/ai/google-search-use...

Instead of digging through all the top search results, you can now ask Google
Search to give you a comprehensive AI-generated summary with its Audio
Overviews feature. The AI feature uses Google Gemini models to create a short
audio clip that sounds like a conversational podcast with two hosts.

It's not ideal for your basic search queries like finding out when Father's
Day is, but it's helpful if you want an in-depth and hands-free response to
the history and significance of Flag Day. The Audio Overviews option pulls
from the front page Google Search results and compiles them into an audio
summary where two voices bounce off each other for a more engaging answer.
You can also adjust the volume and playback speed between 0.25x and 2x. Audio
Overviews even includes the webpages it pulls the info from, letting you
continue down the Google Search rabbit hole.

It's not the first time Google has offered its Audio Overviews tool, but it
was previously reserved for its NotebookLM tool. Google expanded on this
feature by making Audio Overviews within NotebookLM more interactive,
allowing you to ask the AI hosts questions in real-time, and added a "Deep
Dive" option to get the AI to focus on a specific topic. To test out the
Audio Overviews as part of Google Search, you have to opt into the Google
Labs feature on its website.

This article originally appeared on Engadget at
https://www.engadget.com/ai/google-search-use...
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