Google can automatically create a podcast based on your Discover feed

Google knows a lot about you and your interests and uses that information to try to get more of your time and attention. A new Search Labs experiment called “Daily Listen,” for example, can turn your Discover feed into a professional podcast. Google’s Discover is a curated feed on mobile devices filled with articles and videos that the company’s algorithms think are relevant to your interests based on your search queries and other activities. like 9to5Google notes that this feature is similar to Google’s released for NotebookLM last year. This NotebookLM tool can turn the material you feed it into a podcast with two hosts who even joke around as if they were real people.

Daily Listen can create a podcast episode about 5 minutes long that you can listen to for an overview of the latest topics you usually follow. You’ll need to opt-in to Search Labs if this is something you want to try by tapping the flask icon in the top-left corner of the Google app. Once turned on, you can find the Daily Listening Map under the search bar in the Google app on Android and iOS. Click it to generate a podcast, which brings up a screen with a transcript and audio controls.

You can clearly see where each section of the podcast begins and ends in the audio scrubber, and you can pause, stop, rewind and fast forward it at any time. You can also give it a thumbs up or thumbs down to send Google your feedback. If you scroll down, you’ll see a bunch of related stories grouped together based on the sections of the podcast, in case you’re looking for more information.

The experimental feature will go live today in the US, according to 9to5Googlealthough it may take some time to start seeing the option to generate a podcast. It’s not yet clear if Google has plans to roll it out to other regions, and there’s no guarantee that it will get widespread use.