Google is working on a new feature that can create artificial intelligence-powered personalized podcasts by analyzing users’ Search and Explore histories. This experimental feature, called “Daily Listen”, has started to be offered to Android and iOS users in the USA within the scope of Google’s Search Labs.
Daily Listen evaluates the user’s search history and interactions in the Explore stream to determine news and articles that match their interests. The feature, which presents these contents in approximately five-minute audio summaries, provides users with control options such as play, pause, mute, rewind and move on to the next story, along with text transcripts.
Users who join Search Labs can find Daily Listen in the personalized widget carousel below the search bar at the top of the Google app. Content listened to can be liked or disliked and new topics can be discovered through the “Related Stories” tab located under the audio player.
Google had previously developed an artificial intelligence tool that provides audio content by adding the “Voice Overview” feature to its artificial intelligence-supported note-taking tool NotebookLM by obtaining information from the documents uploaded by users. This tool helps users make connections between different topics by converting texts into podcast format.
Additionally, in collaboration with Spotify and Google, artificial intelligence-supported personalized podcasts have started to be offered for the 2024 Wrapped experience. This innovation allows users to explore their musical tastes more deeply by offering personal conversations about their musical history.
There is no official statement yet about when the Daily Listen feature will be available for general use. However, considering that Google has made its previous AI-powered features generally available after testing them through Search Labs, it seems likely that Daily Listen will also be available to a wider audience in the future.