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Generate ‘audio overviews’ in Google Gemini
In our ‘Complete Guide to AI’ feature in Issue 706 (page 57), we enthused about the Audio Overviews feature in Google’s NotebookLM tool. This generates podcast-style conversations from sources you provide, in which two human-sounding male and female voices discuss the content.
Audio Overviews has now been added to Google’s AI assistant Gemini, allowing you to create conversations in its app for Android (www.snipca.com/54663) and iOS (www.snipca.com/54664). This complements Gemini’s text-to-speech option, which reads documents aloud to you – and is a lot more fun.
To try the feature, tap the plus sign on the left of the Ask Gemini message box and select a document or PDF you want to turn into an audio overview. Type ‘Create an audio overview’ ( 1 in our screenshot right) and tap the Send button.
Gemini will now generate your audio overview – this can take up to five minutes, depending on the size of the file (we’ve used a restaurant menu). Once done, it will display a notification with a ‘Play Audio Overview’ link, or you can tap the podcast icon within the chat 2