Google Search is experimenting with Audio Overviews for sure Search queries, the corporate announced on Friday. The function was first launched to NotebookLM, Google’s AI-based note-taking and analysis assistant.

The tech large says Audio Overviews will use its newest Gemini fashions to provide customers one other technique to soak up and perceive data.

“An audio overview will help you get a lay of the land, providing a handy, hands-free technique to soak up data whether or not you’re multitasking or just desire an audio expertise,” Google defined in a blog post.

The function is offered beginning at this time in Labs, Google’s experimental program. The corporate says customers will see the choice to generate a brief Audio Overview if Google thinks it could be helpful primarily based on their particular question. When you generate an Audio Overview, you will note a easy audio participant with play/pause controls, a quantity button, and the choice to regulate the playback velocity.

Google will show hyperlinks within the audio participant to point out the place it’s getting the data. If you wish to be taught extra a few subject after listening to an Audio Overview, you possibly can click on on the hyperlinks to dive deeper into your search.

You may give a thumbs up or thumbs down on every Audio Overview, and the experiment as an entire in Labs.

In NotebookLM, Audio Overviews give customers the flexibility to generate a podcast with AI digital hosts primarily based on paperwork they’ve shared, akin to course readings or authorized briefs. Google additionally introduced Audio Overviews to Gemini in March.

Audio Overviews in Search builds on AI Overviews, the AI-generated summaries Google provides for sure Google Search queries. With Audio Overviews, Google is concentrating on people who find themselves auditory learners or need extra accessible methods to get data.

It’s value noting that at this time’s announcement comes a couple of days after a Wall Street Journal report discovered that Google’s AI Overviews and different AI-powered instruments are killing visitors for information publishers.