- Audio overview comes to Gemini and Gemini Advanced Subscribers from Today
- You can make good sounding podcasts of articles and more, right in Gemini
- It also works with deep research reports
Audio overview comes to Google’s AI Chatbot Gemini and I think it will change the way we use it for good. You can use audio overview to turn documents, slides and even deep research reports for easy-to-listen-to-podcasts.
The first time I tried the sound overview, I was blown off how good it was. The podcasts it creates are essentially 10 minutes long shows told by two AI hosts talking about the topic you have fed with them via Google documents, PDFs or even YouTube videos.
The point of sound overview is to speed up the learning process for students. So instead of having to read all these books or watch all these YouTube videos yourself, you can get AI to do it for you and then have it tell you all the important bits in a short information plastic, but as if you are listening to a podcast.
To get in the mixture
Audio overview first appeared as part of Google’s Notebooklm research tool. It was especially preferred by students who did not like to read much, but the technology to create their AI podcasts worked far better than it was right and obviously had consequences for projects far outside the educational world.
Instead of sounding like two boring AI robots discussing a topic of academic, the podcast hosted sounds like they were two real people talking about a topic they were both really interested in, with a lot of dynamic back and forth.
I quickly realized that there was the opportunity to create podcasts about just about everything with the help of sound overview and I have used it ever since. Now we can use it with deep research reports, it will be even better.
Gemini -Integration
Notebooklm was already free to use, but having audio overviews integrated in Gemini just makes them easier to access. Audio overview is starting to roll out today to Gemini and Gemini Advanced Subscribers, globally in English, with multiple languages soon.
They work in Gemini by simply uploading documents in the fast beam and then choosing generates audio overview from the chip of the proposal that appears. Audio listings work in both the Internet and the mobile app version of Gemini. Go to gemini.google.com to see if they are available to you yet.
