The following report is by 9 to 5 Google:
Google is kicking off a new experiment in Search Labs today called “Daily Listen.” It’s a bit like NotebookLM’s Audio Overviews, while there are also podcast parallels.
Through Discover and Search, Google is aware of what you are interested in. Daily Listen takes all that into account to create a 5 minute or so episode that provides an overview of stories and topics that you follow.
This personalized AI-powered audio experiment will appear in the “Space” carousel underneath the Search bar at the top of the Google app on Android and iOS. Tapping the Daily Listen card, which is dated and labeled “Made for you,” launches a fullscreen player.
Badged with the Gemini sparkle, Daily Listen shows a text transcript where cover art usually appears. Noting how “Generative AI is experimental,” you can give it thumbs up/down feedback.
Then there’s a scrubber with sections denoted, while controls include play/pause, 10-second rewind, next story, playback speed, and mute if you just want to read the transcript.
At the bottom, you can scroll through “Related stories” corresponding to each section with the ability to “Search for more” and thumbs up/down the interest. A docked player appears at the top of the screen as you browse.
Android and iOS users in the US can enable Daily Listen in Search Labs from the top-left corner of the Google app. The experiment is rolling out starting today. It will then take a day for the first episode to appear.
Google previously used Search Labs to test features like Notes and Talk to a Live Representative.
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
Besides the fact that people’s search history, interests and predispositions are being used against them once again – my immediate thought was this is another excuse for people to live and exist in their own echo-chambers, to hear their “truth” they want to hear. Social media algorithms are already like this, but expect it to get even more pronounced this year and those to come afterward.
Proverbs 12:5 The thoughts of the righteous are right: but the counsels of the wicked are deceit.
eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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