Google is experimenting with multiple AI audio features that convert search results and personalized feeds into audio summaries and podcast‑like experiences — all powered by its Gemini AI models.
These experiments reflect how the company is blending traditional search and personalized discovery with AI‑generated audio content that users can listen to instead of read.
What Is Daily Listen? Personalized AI Podcasts
One of the most talked‑about features is Daily Listen, an experimental tool in Google Search Labs that turns your Google Discover interests and search history into a short, AI‑generated podcast episode (around five minutes). Users in the U.S. running the latest Google app on Android or iOS can opt into Search Labs to try it out.
Key Daily Listen features include:
- AI‑generated audio summarizing topics from your Discover feed
- A text transcript alongside the audio player
- Playback controls (play, pause, skip, speed adjustments)
- Options to give feedback (thumbs up/down) on stories included
This feature behaves much like a daily briefing podcast but is automatically tailored to individual interests rather than manually produced.
Audio Overviews: Search Results Turned Into Audio
Google is also testing an Audio Overviews feature in Search Labs that takes a set of search results and synthesizes a podcast‑style narrated summary using generative AI. Rather than reading links and snippets, users can listen to top results read aloud in an audio format.
This audio transformation is part of Google’s broader effort to offer more accessible and conversational search experiences that go beyond text results.
Why This Matters for Audio & Search
These experimental audio tools hint at a future where AI‑generated audio content becomes an integrated part of search and discovery, creating new modes of content consumption. For listeners, this means news and information could become more hands‑free and mobile‑friendly.
For creators, it raises new questions about how AI might influence listener discovery of podcasts and audio content in search environments.
How You Can Try It Today
If you’re in the U.S. and have the latest Google app on Android or iOS, you can enable Search Labs from the Google app menu to test features like Daily Listen and Audio Overviews. These tools are still experimental, so availability may vary and they may evolve before wider rollout.
