Google Discover’s new experimental Daily Listen feature turns your news feed into a podcast
- Google has added an experimental feature to Discover that summarizes the day’s stories into a podcast
- Daily Listen provides a five-minute audio summary of the day’s most relevant stories, based on your interests and past activities
- The feature is part of the experimental Google Labs program
Google has released an experimental feature that lets users listen to their Discover feed instead of reading it.
The new Daily Listen feature, released through Google Labs, summarizes your news feed based on your interests and produces a short podcast with the day’s top stories and relevant headlines.
The new feature includes stories based on your past interactions with the Discover feed, which itself is personalized based on user data and web searches.
To enable Daily Listen, users must first enroll in the Google Labs program, which provides access to experimental and trial features before they become generally available.
9to5Google reports that generative AI is being used to build Daily Listen, noting that Daily Listen became available in the US on January 8. With little in the way of an official announcement from Google, there’s no telling if or when this experimental feature will become available in other areas.
For US users, Daily Listen can be activated by participating in the Google Labs program. Google Labs can be accessed from the top left corner of the Google app on Android or iOS.
Once enabled, Daily Listen will appear as a widget at the top of the Discover feed. Each ‘episode’ of the podcast is approximately five minutes long. TelephoneArena reports that the first Daily Listen will appear approximately one day after enrolling in the Google Labs program.
In addition to an audio overview, Daily Listen offers a scrolling transcript to read along, in addition to the typical pause, rewind, and fast-forward controls.
If Android Central Highlights: Daily Listen is similar in some ways to the Audio Overview feature found in Google’s AI-powered online note-taking tool, NotebookLM.
Audio Overview was recently promoted to full feature status, losing the experimental tag and being fully integrated into NotebookLM. Daily Listen is still too new to predict whether it will integrate well into Discover.
That said, Google seems to be pushing for an increasingly audio-based relationship with our devices through features like Gemini Live, so I won’t be surprised if Daily Listen is here to stay.